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The Future Outpacing Fiction: Can Sci-Fi Writers Keep Up?

Leave a Comment / Artificial Intelligence, SF Industry, The Future / November 20, 2024

In a recent conversation with Bill Gates, filmmaker James Cameron revealed a growing challenge for science fiction creators: staying ahead of real-world technological advancements. He noted that rapid innovation, particularly in artificial intelligence, is outpacing the speculative futures traditionally envisioned by writers. For creators of speculative fiction, this raises a profound question: How do you imagine a future that hasn’t already arrived?

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Award Season Begins…

Leave a Comment / Awards & Kudos, SF Industry / November 18, 2023

I feel a bit self-conscious, writing this post, but it seems to be a perfectly normal practice among Science Fiction and Fantasy writers, magazines, and any other individual or organization who is eligible for this pair of well-known and highly regard industry awards. The nomination periods for both the Hugo Awards and the Nebula Awards

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Add a Bit of Crime & Mystery to Your Science Fiction

Leave a Comment / Out There, SF Industry / October 26, 2023

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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Guest Post on Shaggy Shepherd

Leave a Comment / Miscellaneous, SF Industry / June 17, 2023

As part of being a finalist in Hugh Howey’s SPSF Contest, I was asked to guest post on Shaggy Shepherd’s blog — she is one of the reviewers for the contest. You can find the post here: https://theshaggyshepherd.wordpress.com/2023/06/15/spsfc-finalist-guest-post-cameron-cooper/ Cam

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New Megapacks from Wild Side Press

Leave a Comment / Deals & Discounts, SF Industry / May 18, 2023

I remember the first time I noticed the Megapacks popping up on the bookstore pages among the science fiction and fantasy, because the Megapack covers are…cute, at best. At first I thought it was some fly-by-night shonky operator trying for a quick buck or two, using stories that were now in the public domain, or

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Hot news: Hammer and Crucible is a Finalist in Hugh Howey’s SPSF Contest!

Leave a Comment / Miscellaneous, Out There, SF Industry / May 1, 2023

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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Doomsday Clock reset to 90 Seconds to Midnight, and free books from Baen

Leave a Comment / Miscellaneous, SF Industry / February 16, 2023

It’s not the most reassuring news out there, lately. The Doomsday Clock was reset this year to 90 seconds to midnight, the closest the world has ever been to global disaster. Most of the reset was prompted by the Russia/Ukraine war, but the growing environmental emergency has also weighed in. For a history of the

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I’m a semi-finalist in the SPSFC!!

2 Comments / Miscellaneous, SF Industry / February 2, 2023

For many years now, indie publishing fantasy authors have had an amazing annual contest; the Self-Published Fantasy Blog-Off., run by Mark Lawrence. It’s hugely popular — the latest contest reached it’s maximum number of entries (300) in only 9 hours! But straight SF isn’t allowed in the contest, so Hugh Howey, a couple of years

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Ptolemy Lane Gets A Full Length Story

1 Comment / New Release, SF Industry / August 4, 2022

Bring on the Novel! I’ve had a back-and-forth tussle with myself and with readers for over a year now, about short versus long stories. It’s not at all cut-and-dried, these days. When traditional publishing was the only game in town, everyone wrote novels. Period. More, they were very long novels–especially in this century, when paper costs

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More Space Opera to fix your appetite

Leave a Comment / SF Industry / September 10, 2021

If you’re already through the last book in the Iron Hammer series (I know some of you are very fast readers), then here’s a new one to check out from Sean Willson. Isolation is the first book in his Dark Nebula series. Check out the description and links here.

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