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Podcast: Time Travel

Do you love time travel? I know I do. I could sit around talking about it for hours. In fact, I just did! And you can listen! Join Jon Cronshaw (author of The Ravenglass Chronicles) and Ken Goudsward (author of the Spindown Saga) for a lively discussion about time travel on the Sci-Fi Roundtable Podcast […]

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Writing Sci-Fi

Writing science fiction is not always straightforward. There are many traps to be avoided and expectations to meet. (1) As a reader of sci-fi, what do you think is the biggest mistake authors in the genre make? Not having a point. Now this is not specifically a SF problem, it crops up in lots of […]

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Thoughts On Hard Sci-Fi. Take 1

Many readers eschew technical details. I have already been accused of being too technical. In other words, the computational aspects of my story require a certain hardness, so I do write HARD SF, and for consistency I need to maintain this level if possible as these hard readers are the readers who will stick with me. […]

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Book Reviews

Book Review: The Planets – a scifaiku poetry collection

The Planets: a scifaiku poetry collection by Wendy Van Camp My rating: 5 of 5 stars In this collection of poems Wendy captures the essence, or rather, the myriad essences of the wildly individual planets in our Solar system. Her vivid imagery and suggestive language prompt us to look past oversimplifications and preconceptions of chunks […]

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Book Review: Edge Of Doom

Edge of Doom by E.M. Swift-Hook My rating: 4 of 5 stars On the surface we have a gritty cyberpunk story of crime syndicate power plays. But underneath this, in a similar vein as Asimov’s foundation, is a further exploration of fate and destiny and the future, of, as the author says… “Just another human […]