Sharp speculative stories with a side of science
If you or a kid in your life need some sci-fi summer reading, I've got a book for you! Brave New Girls: Adventures of Gals and Gizmos goes on sale today. The fourth in its series, this anthology features 26 science fiction short stories starring STEM-savvy girls. All proceeds support the Society of Women Engineers... Continue Reading →
My Sunday long runs often take me past the local Little Free Library (LFL), and I can never resist a peek inside the charming hutch. Two new additions the other weekend immediately caught my eye. Once was a phased-out library hardcover of Douglas Adams’ sci-fi classic The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, which I immediately snatched... Continue Reading →
If you keep up with science fiction cinema, you might have heard about Chinese blockbuster The Wandering Earth, which Netflix quietly slipped into its library a few weeks ago. Based on a story by the decorated author of The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin, the film hit it big with global audiences to become one of... Continue Reading →
Don't have time to read a novel? Or a novella? Or even a short story? Try some flash fiction! #VSS365 (Very Short Stories, 365 days a year) is a Twitter hashtag game for micro fiction. Each day, a new writing prompt challenges participants to craft a tweet-length story using the featured word. I've known about... Continue Reading →
Tonight the bloodstained curtain falls on Game of Thrones, the epic HBO series based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books. In a fittingly meta twist, the final season’s harshest feud unfolded not between Starks and Lannisters, but viewers and writers. Denouncing television adapters David Benioff and D.B. Weiss as “incompetent”,... Continue Reading →
I've been busy as an endangered bee this spring, working on revisions on Binary Chop (I dispatched it to my beta readers this weekend, so I get a few days to rest my fingers and wallow in anxiety before the final round). Thankfully, the good people of the writing community gave me several opportunities to... Continue Reading →
