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May is National Short Story Month

May 3, 2016Nivi Engineer

This month, explore the short story.

Stack Overflow: Literary SFF Outtakes

May 2, 2016Robin Brooks

In this week’s Stack Overflow, I take a look at some more of the books I’ve read for my Literary SFF column.

How Nikola Tesla’s Theories Unleash M.G. Buehrlen’s Inner Geek

April 27, 2016Melanie Meadors

This 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.’

Book Review: The ‘Fractured Europe’ Sequence by Dave Hutchinson

April 12, 2016August 13, 2020Robin Brooks

The ‘Fractured Europe’ sequence is speculative Le Carré. Part spy-thiller, part science-fiction. All brilliant.

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: ‘Nod’ by Adrian Barnes

March 31, 2016Robin Brooks4

End-of-Days via sleep deprivation. ‘Nod’ by Adrian Barnes: Apocalypse thriller or Parenting Memoir?

Geeking Out About Giant Robots and City Smashing Kaiju

March 29, 2016December 13, 2017Melanie Meadors

Nick 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!

Book Review: ‘Rules for a Knight’ by Ethan Hawke

February 2, 2016Robin Brooks2

Is chivalry dead? Ethan Hawke doesn’t think so. With his medieval knight inspired fables, he shows us why.

Book Review: Concentr8 by William Sutcliffe

January 30, 2016December 13, 2017Robin Brooks

The Drugs Don’t Work, they just make you worse. Or so says William Sutcliffe in his new ADHD inspired novel.

Stack Overflow: Sliding Doors and Parallel Universes

August 17, 2015Robin Brooks

For 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.

Between the Bookends: July 2015

July 15, 2015Sophie Brown3

This 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.

Series Review: ‘Dan and the Dead’ by Thomas Taylor

June 30, 2015Robin Brooks1

Comic supernatural sleuthing forms the backbone of this entertaining children’s series.

Project Superhero: A Book For Your Young, Comics-Loving Girl

December 10, 2014Ruth Suehle

In 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.

Pulp Fiction in Pearl’s Peril

November 21, 2014Karen Burnham2

Pearl’s Peril features a competent heroine whose engineering prowess often saves the day in this pulp fictional adventure game.

Jonathan Wood: Being a Man Who Doesn’t Kick-Ass, Writing Women Who Do

September 9, 2014December 14, 2017Natania Barron1

Jonathan Wood joins GeekMom as a guest to share how kick-ass women inspire his writing.

7 New Middle Grade and YA Books I Want to Read This Fall

August 19, 2014Jackie Reeve

These are the new fall releases at the top of school librarian and GeekMom Jackie’s To Read pile.

Between the Bookends at GeekMom

May 7, 2014December 13, 2017Sophie Brown

Once 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.

Writing Bone Dust: Learning to Love Process With Evernote and Post-it Brand

April 16, 2014Natania Barron3

When a disorganized mom meets the magic of Post-it Brand and Evernote, amazing things can happen.

Storium Launches on Kickstarter

April 9, 2014December 13, 2017Matt Forbeck

Storium, 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.

Backward Compatible: YA Romance for People Like Us

February 2, 2014December 13, 2017Sophie Brown

Backward 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.

Green Tara: Sci-Fi Eco Adventure

January 9, 2014December 16, 2017Rebecca Angel

Ecology 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?

Hammer of Witches

August 24, 2013December 14, 2017Rebecca Angel

Hammer 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.

The Choosatron: Interactive Fiction Arcade Machine

August 2, 2013December 13, 2017Anton Olsen3

A Kickstarter campaign for a device that plays interactive fiction stories – and you can even create your own. Awesome!

A Closer Look at The New Heroes

October 4, 2012Jonathan H. Liu

I 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 …

Geeky Summer Reading: Get Jonathan Wood’s No Hero and New Sequel Yesterday’s Hero For Free!

August 1, 2012Natania Barron

Another 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.

Serious Comics, Part 8: A Novel Approach

July 28, 2012Jonathan H. Liu

So 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 …

Sorry Please Thank You: Just Good News This Time (an Interview)

July 24, 2012Jonathan H. Liu

Good 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 …

Shadow Show: A Fitting Tribute to Bradbury

July 19, 2012Jonathan H. Liu

Shadow 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.

Book Review and Author Interview: Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez

July 12, 2012James Floyd Kelly

Finish 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 …

Crossed Genres Magazine on Kickstarter

June 4, 2012December 13, 2017Matt Forbeck

Back 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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