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Coming Up… Fact: Science News by J J Campanella Main Fiction: “Mountain Screamers” by Doug Souza Originally published in Asimov’s. I wrote “Mountain Screamers” because I wanted to see how cougars would fare in the future. I imagined they’d be marveled by society while battling extinction. I was pleasantly surprised when the characters took over the story. My grandparents—one set a pair of teachers...

Coming Up… Main Fiction: “Hiraeth: A Tragedy in Four Acts‏” by Karen Lord Originally published in Reach for Infinity , edited by Jonathan Strahan Karen Lord, a Barbadian author and research consultant, is known for her debut novel Redemption in Indigo , which won the 2008 Frank Collymore Literary Award, the 2010 Carl Brandon Parallax Award, the 2011 William L. Crawford Award, the 2011 Mythopoeic F...

Coming Up… Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H Sturgis StarWars – Amy H. Sturgis Main Fiction: “Usher” by Jay Werkheiser Originally published in Analog Science-Fiction and Fact. Bio: Jay teaches chemistry and physics to high school students, where  he often finds inspiration for stories in classroom  discussions.   Not surprisingly, his stories often deal with alien biochemistries, weird...

Coming Up… Interview with New York Times best selling author Joe Abercrombie with Jeremy Szal Main Fiction: “If At First…” by Peter F Hamilton. Originally published in The Solaris Book of New Science Fiction. Peter F. Hamilton was born in Rutland in 1960 and still lives in that county. He began writing in 1987, and sold his first short story to Fear magazine in 1988. He has written many bestsellin...

Coming Up… Main Fiction: “Domine” by Rjurik Davidson Originally published in “ The Time Traveller’s Almanac “, edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Rjurik Davidson is a freelance writer. He has written short stories, essays, reviews and screenplays. He has been short-listed for and won a number of awards.  PS Publishing published his collection, The Library of Forgotten Books, in 2010. His novel, Unw...

Coming Up… Main Fiction: “Last Flight of the Acurus” by Robert J. McCarter Originally published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Robert J. McCarter lives in the mountains of Arizona with his beautiful wife and his ridiculously  adorable dog, pounding away at the keyboard producing software (to make a living) and stories  (to fill his soul and hopefully yours). He has writ ten several ghost...

Coming Up… Main Fiction: “12 and Tag” by Gregory Bossert Originally published in Asimov’s. I began writing fiction in 2009, at the age of 47, after artists Iain McCaig and Dermot Power dared me to write a screenplay. I wrote two, and then tried my hand at short stories, the second of which sold to Asimov’s Science Fiction. After that, I was hooked. My story “The Telling”, originally published by B...

Coming Up… Short Fiction: Reinstalling Eden, by R. Scott Bakker and Eric Schwitzgebel Originally published in Nature magazine . R. Scott Bakker has written eight novels translated into over dozen languages, including Neuropath , a dystopic meditation on the cultural impact of cognitive science, and the nihilistic epic fantasy series, The Prince of Nothing. He lives in London, Ontario with his wife...

Coming Up… Promo: Class Title: The Force of Star Wars: Examining the Epic Main Fiction: “Bethlemen” by Peter Watts Peter Watts is a (former) scientist, author, and convicted felon who spent the first two decades of his adult life as a marine biologist. After fleeing academia for science fiction he became known for  the habit of appending extensive technical bibliographies onto his novels; this bot...

Coming Up… Fact: Looking back in Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis . Interview with world-leading horror anthologist: Ellen Datlow , by Jeremy Szal Main Fiction: “Ticking” by Allen M. Steele Before becoming a science fiction author, Allen Steele was a journalist who’d worked for newspapers and magazines in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Missouri, and his home state of Tennessee. But SF was his first...

Coming Up… Main Fiction: “Men of Greywater Station” by George R. R. Martin and Howard Waldrop Originally published Amazing Stories 1976 and Songs of Stars and Shadows Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award–winner George R. R. Martin, New York Times bestselling author of the landmark A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy series, has been called “the American Tolkien.” Born in Bayonne, New Jersey, George R....

Coming Up… Fact: Science News by J J Campanella Main Fiction: “Persephone Descending” by Derek Kunsken Originally published in Analog Magazine Derek Künsken is a writer of science fiction and fantasy living in Gatineau, Québec. His fiction has appeared in Analog, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Black Gate, On Spec, the three Escape Artists podcasts, several anthologies, and multiple times in Asimov’s. In...

Coming Up… Main Fiction: “Green is for Silence, Blue is for Voice, Red is for Whole, Black is for Choice” by Damien Angelica Walters. Originally published at Daily Science Fiction Damien Angelica Walters’ short fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in various anthologies and magazines, including The Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2015 , Year’s Best Weird Fiction Volume One, Cassilda’s Song , N...

Coming Up…   Fact: Looking Back at Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis Main Fiction: “Stone to Stone, Blood to Blood” by Gwendolyn Clare Originally published in Asimov’s. Gwendolyn Clare resides in North Carolina, where she tends a vegetable garden and a flock of backyard ducks and wonders why she ever lived in the frozen northlands. She has a PhD in mycology, which is useful for identifying wild mush...

Coming Up… Interview with Editor-in-Chief/Publisher of Fantasy Scroll Magazine , Iulian Ionescu, by Jeremy Szal Main Fiction: “The Bomb Thing” by KJ Kabza Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science-Fiction Nov/Dec 2014 In addition to F&SF (which is where “The Bomb-Thing” first appeared), KJ Kabza’s work has been featured in Nature , Daily Science Fiction , Buzzy , Beneath Ceaseles...

Coming Up… Octagon Technology Fact: Science News by J J Campanella Main Fiction: “Our Land Abounds” by David McDonald David McDonald is a mild mannered reporter and editor by day, and a wild eyed writer by night. Based in Melbourne, Australia, he is the editor of a fortnightly magazine for an international welfare organisation, and divides his spare time between helping run a local cricket club an...

Coming Up… Octagon Technology Main Fiction: Memories of Earth by Neal Asher Neal Asher lives sometimes in England, sometimes in Crete and mostly at a keyboard. Having over twenty books published he has been accused of overproduction (despite spending far too much time ranting on his blog, cycling off fat, and drinking too much wine) but doesn’t intend to slow down just yet. Narrator: Anne-Marie Cz...

Coming Up… Subscribe to my new YouTube Channel Octagon Technology Main Fiction: “Discovering Life” by Kim Stanley Robinson Robinson began publishing novels in 1984. His work has been described as “humanist science fiction” and “literary science fiction”. Robinson himself has been a proud defender and advocate of science fiction as a genre, which he regards as one of the most powerful of all litera...

Coming Up… Subscribe to my new YouTube Channel Octagon Technology Dr. Amy H. Sturgis Class: Class YouTube promo: https://youtu.be/bie18n5yv-0 Class information site: http://www.mythgard.org/academics/summer-2015-courses/literary-copernicus/ Literary Copernicus’: The Cosmic Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft by Amy H Sturgis Main Fiction: A Forgone Conclusion, by Connor and Sylvia Spruck Wrigley Sylvia Spru...

Coming Up… Fact: Science News by J J Campanella Main Fiction: “The Line” by T.R. Napper. Originally published in Grimdark Magazine Issue #2 . ‘This is going to hurt.’ George held the goateed man in an arm-bar, face down on the canvas. The man managed to turn his head to one side and gasp, ‘No.’ George bent down, easing the strain on the arm for a moment. Sweat rolled down his brow, from the tip of...

Coming Up… Interview with Editor/Publisher of Grimdark Magazine : Adrian Collins, by Jeremy Szal Main Fiction: “Neighbours” by Megan Lindholm Originally published in anthology Dangerous Women , edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. Megan Lindholm was born in Oakland California in 1952, and spent the first ten years of her life in California. She grew up in a house full of books, rich w...

Coming Up…. Main Fiction: Ninety-Five Percent Safe, by Caroline M. Yoachim Originally published in Asimov’s. Nicole went to visit her best friend, Grant, the day before his family left for Opilio. She was jealous that he’d be part of the second wave — the first wave had already done the hardest work of establishing the colonies, but the floating cities would be nearly empty, an abundance of unclai...

Coming Up… Octagon Technology Fact: Looking Back At Genre History by Amy H Sturgis Main Fiction: “Mammals” by David D. Levine Originally published at Analog Magazine David D. Levine is the author of over fifty published science fiction and fantasy stories. His work has appeared in markets including Asimov’s, Analog, F&SF, and Realms of Fantasy and has won or been nominated for awards including the...

Coming Up… Octagon Technology Main Fiction: “The Fitter” by Timons Esaias Timons Esaias is a satirist, writer and poet living in Pittsburgh. His works, ranging from literary to genre, have been published in eighteen languages. He has over a hundred poems in print, in markets ranging from Asimov’s Science Fiction and 5AM to Elysian Fields Quarterly: The Literary Journal of Baseball . He has also be...

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