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Read M. Darusha Wehm's "Retaking Elysium: A Mars Consortium Story" tonight.
https://amzn.to/3TJjBHs
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A smart, realistic, aware, but also really interesting novella about living and working in a Martian mining colony.
#books #reading #SciFi #ScienceFiction #TheMartianJob

Started reading Matthew Zapruder's "The Pajamaist: Poems."
https://amzn.to/3tcnjht
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Am on the fence about this one so far.
#books #reading #poems #poetry

Finished reading Jon Evans' "Exadelic."
https://amzn.to/3PhRSd2
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While this started out as a cinematic action story, it took so many sharp left turns, and a couple rights, but I was here for all of it.
#Books #Reading #ScienceFiction #SciFi

Finished reading Ellen Bass' "Of Separateness & Merging: Poems."
https://amzn.to/494Gvy1
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Oh, man, this was all over the place, subject-wise, but solid throughout. Good stuff.
#books #reading #poems #poetry

While we don't know where crime, its prevention, or its investigation will go in the future, it's fun to imagine. And even more fun to read short stories by those who are really good at imagining. Here's the link to my interview with Jennifer Brozek and Cat Rambo, editors of the criminally-minded sci-fi short story anthology, “The Reinvented Detective.”
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-the-reinvented-detective-editors-jennifer-brozek-cat-rambo/
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#JenniferBrozek #JenniferBrozekInterview #CatRambo #CatRamboInterview #SciFi #ScienceFiction

2023 was a good year for video games.

But it was also a "good" year for bad video games.

Here's my list of "The Worst Video Games Of 2023."

https://paulsemel.com/the-worst-video-games-of-2023/
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#WorstVideoGamesOfTheYear #WorstVideoGamesOf2023 #WorstGamesOfTheYear #WorstGamesOf2023 #AtomicHeart #AceRacer #ProtodroidDeLTA #TheLordOfTheRingsGollum #SlayersXTerminalAftermathVengeanceOfTheSlayer #GothamKnights #AvatarFrontiersOfPandora #gaming #games #VideoGames

Started reading Greg Chapman's #ShortStory collection "Midnight Masquerade."
https://amzn.to/3RwFuXL
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Seems a little late to be reading a Halloween story (which is what opens this book), but it was freaky good, setting a high bar for this collection.
#books #reading #Horror #ShortStories

New year, but not a new me. Same old me.

That said, I'd like to get a new job this year. Full-time, part-time, freelance, whatever.

I can write about video games, but I think I'd like to try writing a game. Or working with other people to write a game. Baby steps.

Though if someone wants a fleshed out idea for a AAA third-person shooter with series potential...

Anyway, if anyone has any ideas, or leads, or openings, my DMs are open. (Oh, and please RT — I need all the help I can get.)

Though not as good as 2022, 2023 was still a really good year for video games. Or at least for the kind of games I like to play.

Here's my best of list for 2023.
https://paulsemel.com/the-best-video-games-of-2023/
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#BestGamesOfTheYear #BestVideoGamesOfTheYear #BestGamesOf2023 #BestVideoGamesOf2023 #gaming #games #VideoGames #HiFiRush #DeadSpace #ResidentEvil4 #MightyDoom #StarWarsJediSurvivor #DiabloIV #Starfield #HighOnLife #ForzaMotorsport #MarvelsSpiderMan2 #RoboCopRogueCity

When reading a novel in which the fabric of the universe is malleable, it's hard to tell if typos are intentional or not.

It's odd, a lot of authors who write novels based on board games actually don't play said games. But in my new Q&A with "Terraforming Mars: Shores Of A New Horizon" writer M. Darusha Wehm, they explain how being a "Terraforming Mars" fan helped them write this sci-fi adventure novel.
https://paulsemel.com/exclusive-interview-terraforming-mars-shores-of-a-new-horizon-author-m-darusha-wehm/
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#MDarushaWehm #MDarushaWehmInterview #MDarushaWehmTerraformingMarsShoresOfANewHorizon #MDarushaWehmShoresOfANewHorizon #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Thriller #TerraformingMars

Started reading Jon Evans' "Exadelic."
https://amzn.to/3PhRSd2
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Digging this action movie-esque A.I. #cyberpunk #SciFi story.
#Books #Reading #ScienceFiction #HardSciFi #HardScienceFiction

Read Yasmina Reza's play "The God Of Carnage" tonight.
https://amzn.to/3veNQf7
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Not surprised the parents of 2 kids who fought would end up fighting themselves, but seeing how it happens in this play was both tense and divine.
#books #reading

Started reading Ellen Bass' "Of Separateness & Merging: Poems."
https://amzn.to/494Gvy1
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Took me years to track a copy down; first dozen pages made me glad I did.
Oh, and it still had the "do you want a catalog" postcard from 1977 in it.
#books #reading #poems #poetry

Finished reading Sue Burke's "Dual Memory."
https://amzn.to/3BE04xz
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A unique and engaging socio- / political #HardSciFi story about A.I. / machine intelligence, art, and trauma, as well as manners and the benefits of having them.

#Books #Reading #SciFi #SciFiBooks #ScienceFiction #HardScienceFiction

Finished reading Rolly Kent's "Phone Ringing In A Dark House: Poems."
https://amzn.to/470kePJ
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Really good collection of #poems, especially the more personal / narrative ones.
#books #reading #poetry

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Started reading Sue Burke's "Dual Memory."
https://amzn.to/3BE04xz
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Am riveted by both the vivid world and the hapless narrator making his way through it.
#Books #Reading #SciFi #SciFiBooks #ScienceFiction #HardSciFi #HardScienceFiction

Read Christopher Rowe's "The Navigating Fox" tonight.
https://amzn.to/481us3L
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A rather engaging (and often tonally Shakespearean) human / sentient animal society #fantasy tale.
#books #reading