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7th Son Concluded
I finished up listening to 7th Son this morning on my way to work, and it was a little like what I imagine it must feel like to come down off a high. Three novels’ worth of hard-hitting, gut-wrenching action ends with a bittersweet goodbye to our heroes and a feeling of loss that says, [...]
Book Reviews for an Alien
Check it out – my first set of book reviews for someone other than myself. Awhile back, Jason Sizemore, the editor-in-chief of Apex Digest put out a call for a part-time book reviewer. I responded, gave him some past samples of a couple of books reviews I’ve done here, and then he shipped a book to me. [...]
7th Son
I’m really enjoying getting caught up on J.C. Hutchins’ 7th Son podcast novel trilogy. I’m about a third of the way through listening to his second book now and really loving every minute of the show.
For those of you who aren’t familiar with 7th Son, the trilogy follows the story of seven clones as they [...]
Apex Digest and Clarity of Night
A couple of items of note:
Apex Digest is running a subscription drive. They need more subscribers in order to be able to raise the pay rate for contributing writers. If you like science fiction and horror, then I highly recommend this publication. Go order a subscription or three!
Jason Evans at The Clarity of Night has opened his [...]
Flashes of Speculation Open Once Again
After a six-month hiatus, Flashes of Speculation is once more open for business. With the site’s re-launch comes an upgrade to WordPress 2.3 and a new, magazine-style theme, courtesy of The Design Canopy. I am looking for contributions to the site, stories that are no longer than 1000 words and fall into any or all [...]
Favorite Future Technology
Here’s a poll for your Thursday:
If you could pick any technology of the future to adopt right now (assuming, of course, such a thing was possible), what would you choose?
For me, I’ve always loved the notion of neural implants, particularly the neural nanonics in Peter F. Hamilton’s Emberverse series. The idea of having a computer embedded right [...]
No Heroes
From the sounds of this review (Warning! Spoilers!) of the Heroes season premier, I’m not at all sorry I’m ignoring the show this year. Sounds as though Kring is still writing flimsy plotlines, and I think I’d find myself ranting on and on about that. I had (very) small hopes that the writing might improve [...]
Rama
I haven’t read Arthur C. Clarke’s Rama series yet (even though it’s on my list), but this student-created video makes me want to run out and grab the books I’m missing and give them a read-through. (Source: SF Signal)
Sorry, I’m Not Exactly BioShocked
I’m not a fan of the zombie sub-genre of horror/sci-fi/post-apocalyptic fiction, as I’m mentioned before. I don’t really see what’s so interesting about mindless undead whose only goal is to suck the brains out of their living victims. I’m also not thrilled by the idea that the only way to defend oneself against such creatures [...]