Did You Know There is a Mothership Lurking In Our Solar System?

LiveScience.com reported recently (and with a straight face) that a US government official has suggested that an alien mothership is hiding out in our solar system, monitoring Earth with microscopic probes. The headline sound like something straight out of a conspiracy nut’s favourite journals, except it is coming from LiveScience.com, and a Pentagon official is […]

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More new, short SF

It’s been a bit of a dry spell, but I’ve got a short SF story I’m releasing in a couple of weeks to tide you over. There’s a tiny catch, though.   I’ll explain after the description…. On a generation ship where space is at a premium… Saulia finds her long-held dreams hardening into rebellious ambitions

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Watch out for Rip-off Books, and last chance for a bundle of SF

A couple of quick items for today. First, a scam that you might find yourself falling smack into.  There are scammers picking up commercially released fiction and pushing it through Chat GPT with instructions to change the details enough to make the book “original”.  Then they’re slapping unchanged AI art on the front and putting

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Space Is Big. Really Big — Space Opera Bundle by SFWA

SFWA used to be the Science Fiction Writers of America…but the organization has grown so much, and its membership wraps the globe, so recently, the organization changed its name to The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association. But they kept the acronym. They do a lot of marketing and promotion for science fiction and fantasy

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

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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