May is National Short Story Month
This month, explore the short story.
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Continue ReadingIn this week’s Stack Overflow, I take a look at some more of the books I’ve read for my Literary SFF column.
Continue ReadingThis week we welcome YA author M.G. Buehrlen to Geek Speaks…Fiction! M.G. tells us all about why Nikola Tesla’s theories make her geek out, and how they helped inspire her new book, ‘The Untimely Deaths of Alex Wayfare.’
Continue ReadingThe ‘Fractured Europe’ sequence is speculative Le Carré. Part spy-thiller, part science-fiction. All brilliant.
Continue ReadingEnd-of-Days via sleep deprivation. ‘Nod’ by Adrian Barnes: Apocalypse thriller or Parenting Memoir?
Continue ReadingNick Sharps (N.X. Sharps) is the editor of the acclaimed anthology, ‘Kaiju Rising: Age of Monsters’ from Ragnarok Publications. This week on Geek Speaks…Fiction! Nick tells readers about his latest anthology, ‘MECH: Age of Steel,’ and how it made him geek out!
Continue ReadingIs chivalry dead? Ethan Hawke doesn’t think so. With his medieval knight inspired fables, he shows us why.
Continue ReadingThe Drugs Don’t Work, they just make you worse. Or so says William Sutcliffe in his new ADHD inspired novel.
Continue ReadingDavid Shafer’s off-beat techno thriller Whiskey Tango Foxtrot is Alpha-Oscar Kappa.
Continue ReadingFor a long time the mainstay of science fiction stories, the rest of the literary world seems to be catching up with the power of the parallel universe.
Continue ReadingThis month in Between the Bookends, the GeekMoms have been reading about alien parasites, parenting skills, dark fantasy, climbing Everest, and the songs that tell the story of modern Britain.
Continue ReadingComic supernatural sleuthing forms the backbone of this entertaining children’s series.
Continue ReadingIn this fiction/non-fiction hybrid for pre-teen girls, Jessie’s 8th-grade class embarks on the Superhero Slam, a year-long project to explore heroes and superheroes—culturally, scientifically, and sociologically—culminating in a one-on-one debate for superhero supremacy.
Continue ReadingPearl’s Peril features a competent heroine whose engineering prowess often saves the day in this pulp fictional adventure game.
Continue ReadingJonathan Wood joins GeekMom as a guest to share how kick-ass women inspire his writing.
Continue ReadingThese are the new fall releases at the top of school librarian and GeekMom Jackie’s To Read pile.
Continue ReadingOnce again, the GeekMoms have been reading an incredible variety of books this month. Hear about a drug-filled near-future dystopia, a mouse detective, the “lost journal” of Assassin’s Creed’s Blackbeard, and an academic introduction to the work of Joss Whedon.
Continue ReadingWhen a disorganized mom meets the magic of Post-it Brand and Evernote, amazing things can happen.
Continue ReadingStorium, a new kind of online storytelling game, launches on Kickstarter. It features innovative play plus a slew of fantastic authors and game designers offering up a wild array of worlds in which you can play.
Continue ReadingBackward Compatible is a boy-meets-girl romance for people like us and is crammed full of more geek references than an entire season of Community.
Continue ReadingEcology gets a space-adventure for young adults in a new book by K.H. Brower. Green Tara: A Bosque Family Adventure is set in a future where Earth can no longer sustain life.. Can one girl change that and bring humans back home?
Continue ReadingHammer of Witches by Shana Mlawski is all about stories: fairy tales, religious texts, and history. She takes what we know of Columbus’ voyage to America and uses it as the backdrop about a boy learning the power of words, and the magic behind the meaning of stories. It’s a good book.
Continue ReadingA Kickstarter campaign for a device that plays interactive fiction stories – and you can even create your own. Awesome!
Continue ReadingI mentioned Michael Carroll’s Super Human trilogy in my post about superhero fiction, and since then I’ve also read the earlier Quantum Prophecy trilogy. Having all six books under my belt, I thought I’d dig a little deeper into the …
Continue ReadingAnother day. Another zombie T-Rex to put down. All part of the routine for Arthur Wallace and MI37—the government department devoted to defending Britain from threats magical, supernatural, extraterrestrial, and generally odd.
Continue ReadingSo far in this series we’ve visited several genres of what I’m calling “serious comics”: memoirs, religious texts, comics based on existing literature, and even superheroes. For many people, superheroes are the epitome of comic books — and also the …
Continue ReadingGood news: Charles Yu’s new book of short stories, Sorry Please Thank You, is available today! I wrote about it back in May and said that you should just pre-order a copy, but if you didn’t follow that excellent piece …
Continue ReadingShadow Show is a very fitting tribute to a man who never quit writing: a collection of stories by a diverse bunch of writers, inspired by and in celebration of Ray Bradbury.
Continue ReadingFinish reading the latest techno thriller from Daniel Suarez, Kill Decision, and you’ll probably find yourself (as I do) stopping and paying a bit more attention to any kind of media attention given to drones. This fiction tale takes a …
Continue ReadingBack in 2008, Geek Dad contributor Bart Leib and his wife (and GeekMom contributor) Kay Holt started up a science-fiction and fantasy magazine called Crossed Genres, which eventually grew into a full small publishing operation dedicated to bringing genre-bending novels …
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