Do we Do we need a remake of Forbidden Planet?? Doesn’t matter—we’re getting one.
BBC released a trailer of the Doctor Who Christmas special. Reactor doesn’t have it, but they saw it.
This is a plug for a local southeastern anthology. The proceeds go to families in Appalachia who lost businesses and homes during the recent hurricanes. I may or may not have a story in it. I’m not being coy; I sent in a story but I haven’t seen the complete TOC yet.
In the weeks following the election,
November 20th, 2024. Marion Deeds | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 4 comments |
It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What’s the best book you read in August 2024 and why did you love it?
It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF, or even fiction. We just want to share some great reading material.
Feel free to post a full review of the book here, or a link to the review on your blog, or just write a few sentences about why you thought it was awesome.
And don’t forget that we always have plenty more reading recommendations on our 5-Star SFF page.
September 5th, 2024. FanLit | Giveaway! | 9 comments |
It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What’s the best book you read in July 2024 and why did you love it?
It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF, or even fiction. We just want to share some great reading material.
Feel free to post a full review of the book here, or a link to the review on your blog, or just write a few sentences about why you thought it was awesome.
And don’t forget that we always have plenty more reading recommendations on our 5-Star SFF page.
August 1st, 2024. FanLit | Giveaway! | 15 comments |
Tachyon Publications celebrates the 30-year anniversary of Patricia McKillip’s The Book of Atrix Wolfe with a beautiful new edition. McKillip, who passed away in May, 2022, wrote seductive fantasies, filled with engaging characters and prose that sang. Beginning in the 1970s, McKillip filled our lives with magic, mystery and beauty.
We’re happy to reveal the beautiful cover of the new book, and host a giveaway. One commenter will have a choice of a hardcopy ARC or an eARC of The Book of Atrix Wolfe.
“When the White Wolf descends upon the battlefield,
June 12th, 2024. Marion Deeds | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 10 comments |
It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What’s the best book you read in May 2024 and why did you love it?
It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF, or even fiction. We just want to share some great reading material.
Feel free to post a full review of the book here, or a link to the review on your blog, or just write a few sentences about why you thought it was awesome.
And don’t forget that we always have plenty more reading recommendations on our 5-Star SFF page.
June 6th, 2024. FanLit | Giveaway! | 18 comments |
In Season 2 of Lost, the showrunners hit both the zenith and nadir of characterization, with Ben Linus (Michael Emerson) and Ana Lucia Cortez (Michelle Rodriguez.) They succumbed to the Epic Fail technique of “fridging.” Pop-star character Charlie wrestled with addiction, as Locke did with faith. And as in Season One, lots of people run through the jungle. With Season 2, the show added the dramatic innovation, “running and falling down in the jungle.”
Starting in September, 2005, Season 2 led us through 24 episodes. Storylines include:
the Hatch
the Tail Section Survivors
Walt’s abduction
The Others
Courtesy of Lostpedia,
May 29th, 2024. Marion Deeds | Film / TV | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 8 comments |
4,8,15,16,23,42
Lost opens in the immediate aftermath of an airliner crash on a deserted jungle island. The first character we see is a wounded Jack Shepherd, a spinal surgeon with a Messiah complex, but very soon the canvas of the Survivors of Oceanic flight 815 will be spread out before us, and what a broad canvas it is.
Filmed entirely, or nearly so, in the state of Hawaii, mostly on Oahu, Lost was beautiful, but it required some conscious suspension of disbelief to accept Honolulu as every other single city represented in the show.
May 15th, 2024. Marion Deeds | Film / TV | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 7 comments |
(Giveaway: One commenter will get the hardcover edition of Ghost Station by S.A. Barnes.)
Like the show itself, this is a very long column. Unlike the show, it’s only about one thing.
Lost aired on ABC from 2004-2010, six enigmatic seasons that left a vocal and devoted fanbase, and a larger audience whose reaction seemed to be more like, “Huh? What?” when they watched the final season—especially the final episode.
Lost can be purchased via Youtube or Amazon Prime. I stopped watching the show early in its original run,
May 8th, 2024. Marion Deeds | Film / TV | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 16 comments |
It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What’s the best book you read in April 2024 and why did you love it?
It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF, or even fiction. We just want to share some great reading material.
Feel free to post a full review of the book here, or a link to the review on your blog, or just write a few sentences about why you thought it was awesome.
And don’t forget that we always have plenty more reading recommendations on our 5-Star SFF page.
May 2nd, 2024. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 10 comments |
Primary endosymbiosis is rare, but it’s happening right now with an algae and a cyanobacterium, which are merging to form an organelle that can fix nitrogen directly from the air.
Among other events, BaltiCon will feature an SFF-themed short film festival. (Thanks to File 770.)
Fallout has been renewed for another season on Amazon.
Nerds of a Feather interview Cheryl Ntumy about Mothersound, a science-fantasy anthology based on African folklore, and the Sauutiverse collective.
Reactor offers an excerpt of James Logan’s new epic fantasy novel The Silverblood Promise.
April 24th, 2024. Marion Deeds | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 6 comments |
It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What’s the best book you read in March 2024 and why did you love it?
It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF, or even fiction. We just want to share some great reading material.
Feel free to post a full review of the book here, or a link to the review on your blog, or just write a few sentences about why you thought it was awesome.
And don’t forget that we always have plenty more reading recommendations on our 5-Star SFF page.
April 4th, 2024. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 15 comments |
March 17 is best known in the modern USA as St. Patrick’s Day. It is also the feast day of St. Getrude of Nivelles, an aristocratic woman who became a nun and an abbess, and might be the patron saint of cats. This older article is interesting, even though there is no formal documentation of a Patron Saint of Cats.
Short story writer and award winner John Wiswell shares six books with Nerds of a Feather.
Best five? Best six? Stubby the Robot says, “Hah!” to such paltry lists and gives us 13 selkie stories on Reactor.
March 20th, 2024. Marion Deeds | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 7 comments |
It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What’s the best book you read in February 2024 and why did you love it?
It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF, or even fiction. We just want to share some great reading material.
Feel free to post a full review of the book here, or a link to the review on your blog, or just write a few sentences about why you thought it was awesome.
And don’t forget that we always have plenty more reading recommendations on our 5-Star SFF page.
March 7th, 2024. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 14 comments |
Marvel’s Squirrel Girl will finally get her due when the comics release special covers of Marvel heroines. It won’t be until March, but still.
Last week the PBS Newshour did a segment on “romantasy,” the stories that feature magic or a fantastical setting but also have a romance story that is nearly as important. Now the U.K. Guardian has an article about it. I think two things; 1) this is not a new phenomenon, but the mainstream as “discovered” it, and 2) regardless of how I feel about it, “romantasy” as a term is sticking around.
February 7th, 2024. Marion Deeds | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 5 comments |
It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What’s the best book you read in January 2024 and why did you love it?
It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF, or even fiction. We just want to share some great reading material.
Feel free to post a full review of the book here, or a link to the review on your blog, or just write a few sentences about why you thought it was awesome.
And don’t forget that we always have plenty more reading recommendations on our 5-Star SFF page.
February 1st, 2024. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 11 comments |
It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What’s the best book you read in December 2023 and why did you love it?
It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF, or even fiction. We just want to share some great reading material.
Feel free to post a full review of the book here, or a link to the review on your blog, or just write a few sentences about why you thought it was awesome.
And don’t forget that we always have plenty more reading recommendations on our 5-Star SFF page.
January 4th, 2024. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 15 comments |
It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What’s the best book you read in November 2023 and why did you love it?
It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF, or even fiction. We just want to share some great reading material.
Feel free to post a full review of the book here, or a link to the review on your blog, or just write a few sentences about why you thought it was awesome.
And don’t forget that we always have plenty more reading recommendations on our 5-Star SFF page.
December 7th, 2023. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 7 comments |
This week’s column will be single-topic, and I’m including a giveaway. One commenter will get a hardcover edition of Richard Kadrey’s The Pale House Devil.
In October, 2023, the Library of America released a compilation of the works of Joanna Russ. Russ, a contemporary of Ursula LeGuin, Suzy McKee Charnas, Samuel Delaney, Marta Randall, Kate Wilhelm, Damon Knight and other New Wave writers, was a vocal feminist who brought literary values to her work—even her sword and sorcery stories (a genre she loved).
November 22nd, 2023. Marion Deeds | Giveaway!, World Wide Wednesday | 6 comments |
It’s the first Thursday of the month. Time to report!
What’s the best book you read in October 2023 and why did you love it?
It doesn’t have to be a newly published book, or even SFF, or even fiction. We just want to share some great reading material.
Feel free to post a full review of the book here, or a link to the review on your blog, or just write a few sentences about why you thought it was awesome.
And don’t forget that we always have plenty more reading recommendations on our 5-Star SFF page.
November 2nd, 2023. FanLit | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 12 comments |
Houses are a staple of the spooky season. Whether the house is infested with ghosts and no more to blame than one with a termite problem, acting with intent (evil or otherwise), or not actually a house at all but a maze, portal, or mouth, they loom large in the landscape of spooky prose and spooky films.
Bill, Sandy, and I decided to take a look at a few of our favorites. Today’s spotlight—or at least our high-tech ghost-hunting apparatus—is trained on houses, in books and movies. They are listed in (roughly) alphabetical order.
One commenter will get a hardback edition of Alix E.
October 26th, 2023. Marion Deeds | Giveaway!, Thoughtful Thursday | 17 comments |
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