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Sci-Fi in Iraq, NaNoWriMo, Making a Living From Books, and more…
Why serious literary fiction like Ishiguro’s is vital in times like these (The Guardian) Eminent publishers predict a long-term decline for the entire industry, as younger people turn to other forms of entertainment. From a personal perspective, such worries feel well-founded: I organise the books events for the Brighton festival, and it’s been interesting to observe…
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The Cypriot Agent by J.R. Rogers
1974 – Charged by the Justice Department and the FBI with espionage and facing arrest in Washington, D.C., the CIA intervenes and allows the Soviets to recall Marina Kovalev known as Brenda Farber, a Soviet mole in order to avoid the embarrassment of revealing to the world that the U.S. had been duped. Now the…
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Trans Sci-Fi, Imagining the Internet, and more…
Why Science-Fiction Writers Couldn’t Imagine the Internet (Slate) Quantum mechanics defies common sense—so much so that Einstein never really accepted it. But as experiments today, from entanglement to quantum teleportation, demonstrate, quantum mechanics does describe the universe at fundamental scales. That’s why science fiction—though it can inspire human imagination, as Stephen Hawking said in the…
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Zena Shapter, author of Towards White
What is the biggest thing that people THINK they know about your subject/genre that isn’t so? I write science fiction and fantasy, and people (who don’t read it) tend to think of it as ‘all spaceships and magic’. It isn’t! Science fiction, for example, can indeed be based on space, time travel or life on…
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Frida R., author of Blossom’s Wine Bar
When and why did you begin writing? I started writing when I was in the fourth grade, mainly because I was too shy to stand up for myself and speak my mind. In the beginning, I was just venting in my diary. Then, I learned about onomatopoeia in class and was given a homework assignment…
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Towards White by Zena Shapter
They know what’s going to happen to you… after you die. Scientists in Iceland think they’ve figured out one of our greatest mysteries – where the electrical energy in our brains goes after we die. According to the laws of physics, one form of energy must always become another form. So the electrical energy in…
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Nnedi Okorafor, Political Thrillers in the Trump Era, and more…
I write political thrillers. The Trump era keeps spoiling my books. (Vox) When truth is stranger than fiction, fiction becomes more than entertainment. In the age of Trump, and other moments of crisis, the stories we watch and read become far more vital than simple genre diversions. That’s a lot of pressure to put…
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Blossom’s Wine Bar by Frida R.
In the memoir-like chapbook, “Blossom’s Wine Bar” Frida R. snatches her audience’s hearts and drags them down the unpaved roads of her messy, ever-changing alcohol soaked world. With fair amounts of wit and grit, “Blossom’s Wine Bar” is a collection of stoems (poems that read like short stories) and personal essays where she pulls readers…
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David Russell, author of Self’s Blossom
When and why did you begin writing? My first poem was triggered by acute personal tensions; through writing it, I got some sense of control over those tensions. When did you first consider yourself a writer? From my early 20s, though it took a long time for my opinion to be vindicated. Why did you…
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Henniker Secrets (Sam and Martha Mystery Book 2) by Steven P. Marini
A ghostly legend is brought back to life when Martha’s brother, Bart, buys the old Ocean Born Mary house with his partner Auggie. It is a conflicted friendship. A woman named Teresa shows up, bearing a shocking resemblance to a picture of Mary’s ghost. She deals herself in on the action, winning over Bart. Her…
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