REVIEW SUMMARY: The third in Ian Sales Apollo Quartet sees a more alternate historical mode to his story of astonauts and spy satellites. MY RATING: BRIEF SYNOPSIS: In an [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] We asked this week’s panelists about what they are reading. Q: Mount To-be-read! Every genre reader that [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Recently, Ian Sales posted an article on his website called Toward 100 Great SF Short Stories by Women. We thought [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] This week, we decided to transcend Orwell by asking panelists to go beyond 1984. Q: Recent events have caused the [...]
REVIEW SUMMARY: Ian Sales continues his strong Apollo Quartet with a deeply personal tale of the first astronaut on Mars going on a much longer trip. MY RATING: BRIEF [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] This week we asked about books you don’t love. What books do people expect you to love or read, but you [...]
Here’s the cover art and synopsis of Ian Sales’ upcoming sequel to Adrift On The Sea Of Rains: The Eye With Which The Universe Beholds Itself, which will be [...]
SYNOPSIS: From an alternate history with both a moonbase and a global thermonuclear war, a band of stranded astronauts seek a new parallel earth to escape to. MY RATING: MY [...]
Ian Sales has announced the formation of Whippleshield Books, an imprint focusing on literary stories with high scientific and technological content — and with it, the [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Every reader holds out for a hero, but be it movies or novels, its the antagonists, the villains, that often bring [...]
[Do you have an idea for a future Mind Meld? Let us know!] Very rarely does a short fiction anthology score a home run with every single story it contains. Tastes differ from [...]
“Best of the Year” lists start appearing as early as November, so we are perhaps a little late in asking folks around the community: Q: What were the best [...]
As is usual around awards-time, there is much discussion about the usefulness of awards, the books that made the list of finalists, and what the Best Novel shortlist says [...]