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Started reading Octavia E. Butler's "Parable Of The Sower."
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stories always hit harder when they seem plausible. But when they seem inevitable...

Started reading Lydia Tomkiw's "Poems."
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Bought on a whim; if the first part of this "complete poems" collection is a sign of things to come, it was totally worth it.

As any kid will tell you, it's helpful to be able to call for a "do-over." Just as the main character in Jack Campbell's new time traveling sci-fi space opera novel "In Our Stars." To learn more, check out this exclusive interview.
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Finished reading Sean Michaels' "Do You Remember Being Born?"
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Tore my way through this thoughtful / thought-provoking character study / speculative piece about an old poet and a new A.I. collaborating.

Finished reading Ariana Reines' "A Sand Book: Poems."
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Even after reading this nearly 400 word tome I am looking to read more of her . As impressive and engaging as it was epic, varied, and sprawling.

In my exclusive interview with author Angela Sylvaine, the self-proclaimed "cheerful Goth" talks about her first collection of short stories, "The Dead Spot: Stories Of Lost Girls," which sounds as unique and multilayered as how she describes herself.
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Started reading Sean Michaels' "Do You Remember Being Born?"
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As a fan of and plausible speculative fiction, I'm absolutely enraptured with this novel about a poet asked to collaborate with an A.I.

Started reading Saïd Sayrafiezadeh's "Brief Encounters With The Enemy: Stories."
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Is so far as good as his more recent collection, " American Estrangement."

In his new urban fantasy / murder mystery novella "Hidden Fury," author Bjorn Hasseler wrote about something near and dear to his...er, home: the cryptid known as Goatman. To learn more, check out this exclusive interview.
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While virtual reality doesn't count as reality, yet, it someday might. In Keith Anthony Baird's dystopian / cyberpunk / sci-fi / urban fantasy novella "SIN:THETICA," a bounty hunter has to hunt in VR. To learn more, check out this exclusive interview.
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Read Neil Gaiman's "Coraline" tonight.
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Having read the graphic novel version, seen the movie, and watched "The Simpsons" parody, I thought it time to read the prose version of this engaging dark story.

Finished reading Edward Ashton's "Mal Goes To War."
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A very engaging, smart, and Murderbot-esque-cheeky "A.I. as mental hitchhiker in a war zone" story.

Like the shows that inspired them, the pinball tables in the "Universal Pinball: TV Classics Pack" for "Pinball FX" — "Xena: Warrior Princess," "Knight Rider," and "Battlestar Galactica" — are a real ball. Here's the link to my review.
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With Cath Lauria's new romantic cosmic horror novel "Call Of Cthulhu: Secrets & Sacrifices," Aconyte Books are kicking off a new series based on Chaosium's iconic table-top role-playing game. To learn more, check out this exclusive interview.
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Started reading Edward Ashton's "Mal Goes To War."
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This A.I. in the middle of a pure human / augmented human war story is, so far, as clever and entertaining as his previous novels.

Finished reading Sierra Greer's "Annie Bot."
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This sex 'bot / maid 'bot / companion 'bot story was more unsettling than I expected. Still good, though.

Finished reading "The Collected Short Stories Of Arthur C. Clarke"
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Took me years, but now that I'm done, I'm sorry there aren't more.

For the newest installment of her cozy fantasy series "The Singing Hills Cycle," writer Nghi Vo has kind of screwed her main character, the Cleric Chih. To find out how, and why, check out this exclusive interview.
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Started reading Sierra Greer's "Annie Bot."
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So far this sex 'bot / maid 'bot / companion 'bot story's got me entertained but also a little scared.

Authors often have characters be liars. But in my new interview with Johanna van Veen, she explains how her sapphic Gothic horror / historical fiction novel "My Darling Dreadful Thing" really came together when she decided that a character wasn't lying.
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