In 2016, NASA released a collection of posters featuring exoplanets and other stellar destinations, as travel posters. Extremely high resolution, large scale versions of them were available, and as I was pretty hooked by them, a family member who had access to a high resolution plotter and plastic printing sheets, downloaded the files (they’re free), […]
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The TV series, Foundation, has just finished its second season on Apple TV. I thought everyone who cares about good science fiction would know about the series, but a reader I was conversing with the other day was not aware of it. Because of that conversation, I thought I’d mention the show here. Perhaps Apple
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K-Lytics, a service that researches trends and rankings of all the categories on Amazon, put out their most recent Science Fiction & Fantasy report in July this year. I tend to take notice of K-lytic reports, even though they’re focused exclusively on Amazon, for the trends and comparisons tend to hold true across most of
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I am absolutely not a futurist, but when you’re immersed in science fiction every day, it’s sometimes hard to stop yourself from making predictions, anyway. I’m currently rebuilding this site on a staging site behind the scenes, and a couple of days ago came across this post: “I Think AI Covers Have A Way To
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This just in… 🙂 Literally, the graphic just popped up on the SPSFC site a few minutes ago. Hammer and Crucible is one of seven books out of the original 300 to make it through the finals of the contest. The grand winner of the contest, one of the 7 finalists, will be announced on July 15th.
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I read with interest a post on Medium by Stories Rule Press author Tracy Cooper-Posey, talking about the world’s first AI created magazine cover, by Cosmopolitan. As a science fiction writer, I’m always interested in computer advances and AI is developing at the speed of sound, these days. We already have AI Narrated audiobooks popping
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There was a post on HuffPo on Sunday that went viral. “Google Engineer On Leave After He Claims AI Program Has Gone Sentient” was sent to me by three different people. I’m not surprised so many people thought to send me a copy, as I tend to write about sentient AIs a lot. They’re scattered
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A couple of years ago, long before anyone had ever heard of COVID19, I spent an afternoon doing one of my favourite things: I sat in a Starbucks drinking good coffee and talking shop with another indie author. I don’t get out of the house very much and didn’t, even before the pandemic, so spending
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Bogus but Beautiful – Crop Circles Everyone has heard of crop circles. Wikipedia actually list the phenomenon in amongst other paranormal events and abilities. But the truth is, most crop circles (or crop formations, as they’ve generally become known) are the result of very human activity. There have been recorded cases of crop circles being
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A few weeks ago, I let everyone know about BookFunnel’s Library feature (more details here if you don’t know what I’m referring to). I got a ton of email back from readers who really loved the feature and were super glad to hear about it. But I also got an email from a reader who
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