The hallmark of good science fiction is that it draws the reader into an alien world where people very much like the reader face fantastic dilemmas in an alien setting that the reader can still empathize with. Readers of The Colors of Space by Marion Zimmer Bradley will find this […]

Happy Birthday First Contact – Digital Science Fiction Anthology 1. To celebrate the one year anniversary of the launch of First Contact, our very first Digital Science Fiction anthology, we have arranged a free Kindle version promotion at Amazon.com. For two days, from June 4th to the end of June […]

If you’ve ever encountered the concept of grey goo and “The Game of Life,” a computer model that uses something called cellular-automata along with simple rules and a grid system to generate interesting patterns you’ll understand the basis for Bloom. To explain, grey goo is a hypothetical end-of-the-world scenario where […]

Everyone has gone to see a movie adaption of a book and heard someone say, “The book was much better than the movie!”  Most readers have probably said that exact thing on a number of occasions.  And, generally, the original format of the story stays the most popular.  No Star […]

The author Anne McAffrey is best known for her fantasy series The Dragonriders of Pern but she’s also a Hugo Award winning author of science fiction novels. Any enterprising science fiction enthusiast would find herself well-tread to pick up one of Ms. McAffrey’s novels and sit down on the couch […]

It’s been far too long since we last delved into some of the great short science fiction available for ebook readers everywhere, so let’s head back into it with three great selections! “From Above” by Jeremy Robinson Jeremy Robinson is best known for his Jack Sigler series of adventure novels […]

The book Vast by Linda Nagata is the culmination of a trilogy that follows a small group of characters through the trials of outliving their own cultural heritage and how their technology has transcended their own humanity. As a science fiction novel it’s a bit of an outlier when it […]

It has been quite some time since last we looked at what the world of graphic fiction had to offer fans of science fiction.  So, today we will take another look at some of the exciting stories out there that are perfect for science fiction readers.  Without further introduction, here […]

Anyone working their way through the cyberpunk genre should at least stop by Blade Runner (a movie) but many don’t know that the movie is really set from a book by Philip K. Dick and that book is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Although I am a huge proponent […]

Over the last few weeks, we have looked at all of the Baen reissue editions of Keith Laumer’s works, featuring all ten volumes: Retief! (along with William H. Keith, Jr.’s Retief’s Peace), Odyssey, Keith Laumer: The Lighter Side, A Plague of Demons & Other Stories, Future Imperfect, Legions of Space, […]