When a musician and his group loose a music competition in spite of a stellar performance, his investigation reveals the bad result is due to discrimination against Sagittarians. All he's looking for is a little satisfaction when things go sideways.

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Do you have a major writing goal you want to achieve, but you don’t know how to make the time? You have a few options ahead of you.

The Trouble with Tessa is a charming show that knows its place within the horror tradition and makes full use of folk and analog horror's motives.

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We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon. Today’s list includes witches, space battles, aliens, and a box set about a demon hunter.

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This time, it's personal!

Dave Henrickson is attracted to clarity and skill in fiction prose, the intelligence of the author, regarding both their subject and the craft of writing, and worldbuilding.  

A far-off interplanetary civilisation, faced with the spectre of invasion by more powerful neighbours, draws inspiration from how African nations would discourage European explorers.

SpaceX's Starship rockets get closer to achieving success as the United States and other geopolitical powers race, once again, to the cosmos.

Imagery, voice, and writing in your story work together to take the reader somewhere else, to immerse them in your story world. Here's how it works.

A nondescript little old lady is drawn to the bedsides of desperate, outcast dying men. She pulls from their minds that whole-life stream that tradition says the dying experience, leaving her exhausted but them at peace to die. What is going on here?

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A man wakes up trapped in a strange, rock-strewn place, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. As he investigates the rock field, his horror grows as he begins to remember.

Although it could be overlooked by the casual Black Mirror viewer, Hotel Reverie encapsulates what makes a near-perfect episode of the show.

We read the first few chapters of each of the top five free fantasy and sci-fi books on Amazon and we've got both fantasy dragons and space dragons today. And Tinkerbell.

For nearly two weeks Ernie's been receiving cryptic messages in his email, texts on his cell phone as well as computer-generated voices all reminding him of a meeting, he doesn't know anything about. He tries to ignore them but as the date of the meeting gets closer, they messages become more persistent and aggressive. Now they're involving other people and appearing as graffiti. Someone is going to a lot of trouble just to prank him, or is there some other reason? Should he appear at the location and be humiliated or call their bluff and not attend?

This week's Spell Check may be half-baked.

What if you could harness the possibilities of quantum entanglement to change people's minds? What would you do with that power?

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While you’re in the throes of your fantasy rough draft, you need to think about description. We’re walking through the how, the when, and the why of including more detail in your draft.

This is a pivotal novel that has remained relevant since its publication in 1937. It would profoundly shape future science fiction stories.

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