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Under normal circumstances, I'd tell you to always ignore jerks. But in my exclusive interview with author Beth Revis about her sci-fi space opera novella "Full Speed To A Crash Landing," she says it was inspired by something some jerk said to her, so...
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In Mattie Bukowski's science fiction space opera novel "Up The Entropic Hill," death isn't a problem anymore, which makes it that much worse when you lose someone you love. And in my exclusive interview with Bukowski, he talks about how this sends someone hitchhiking across the galaxy.
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In my new interview with author Aliette de Bodard, she explains why the complicated method of space travel in her character focused science fiction space opera novella "Navigational Entanglements" is so monstrous.
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Started reading Alice James' "Grave Suspicions: The Lavington Windsor Mysteries."
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Seems like this is going to be as fun and flirty as the first two books in this / series.

Read Jean Genet's "The Balcony: A Play" tonight
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Classic Genet ... with all the filthy insight that implies.

Started reading Anders Carlson-Wee's "Disease Of Kings: Poems."
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I really like good narrative , and this book starts with a bunch of them.

Some science fiction writers take the "science" part very seriously. But author Nathan Ballingrud not only didn't do that in his new novella "Crypt Of The Spider Moon," as he says in this exclusive interview, this pulpy lunar Gothic story isn't even sci-fi.
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Finished reading S.A. Barnes' "Ghost Station."
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While I will never take a space ship to another planet, this still freaked me the fuck out.

The new "Star Wars" video game "Outlaws" is like Han Solo: a little bad but mostly good. But it's no "Jedi." Here's the link to my review of this third-person, open world action / adventure shooter / stealth action game.
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Started reading Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild And Other Stories."
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Only read the title story so far, but it was weird and good in a way I was not expecting.

Finished reading Kang Young-sook's "At Night He Lifts Weights: Stories."
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A mostly good bunch of clever , though I'm on the fence as to whether I feel the need to read any of her other collections.

Started reading S.A. Barnes' "Ghost Station."
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Didn't get far, still in the "set-up" phase, but I can already feel myself tensing up...

Finished reading Fyodor Dostoevsky's "The Idiot."
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Last of the major Russian classics I wanted to read, and clearly a good one to end on.

Finished reading Phuong T. Vuong's "A Plucked Zither: Poems."
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My only complaint about this otherwise excellent collection is that it's too short.

In Chase Gamwell's science fiction space opera novel "Aiko's Dive," the titular young adult learns she's the last human in a populated galaxy, and her looking for the reason "why" may make things worse. To learn more about this sci-fi novel, check out this exclusive interview.
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We all love dogs, and we all love otters, but a dog / otter hybrid with a taste for human flesh?!?

Thankfully, we don't have to love those, we just have to read about them in Sherri Cook Woosley's urban fantasy / horror novella "Mother's Instinct" ... and this exclusive interview about it.
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Started reading Phuong T. Vuong's "A Plucked Zither: Poems."
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Digging this, especially the that are remembrances.

With "The Dragon In Winter," author Jonathan Maberry is bringing his "Kagen The Damned" series of swashbuckling fantasy novels to an end ... sort of. Best to let him explain it in this exclusive interview.
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Read Stephanie Sy-Quia's "Amnion" tonight.
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An epic poem? An autobiography in verse? Don't know; don't care. All I know is it demanded to be read in one sitting and was all the more effective for it.

And now, something for those into scrapbooking ... and murder: In Calla Henkel's new novel "Scrap," making a scrapbook may help a woman solve a murder. To find out more about this mystery thriller, check out this exclusive interview with Henkel.
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