The site is doing its annual fund drive. Toss in a few bucks if you can to the source of a lot of research we writer's do ..read more

To Terran Commonwealth pilot Rex Vahl the mission seemed simple: Find out why the tyrannical Europan Empire was interested in the backwater world of Anglesey. But in the lawless space of the Chaos Quarter, things never really go smoothly. When Rex discovers a colony of people that are not supposed to exist, he and his crew suddenly find themselves trapped between desperate people who deserve freedom, and an autocratic superpower hell-bent on destroying it. Making things worse is the fact... Chaos Quarter: Imperial Ambitions - Ragtag band vs. slaver superpower ..read more

I brought up this subject a few times in the past (others too), There used to be a file upload button option for users - so you can insert an image directly from your PC) . After a little research, I think that permission was purposefully revoked. There was probably a good reason. Currently most of us (correct me, if you still have the button!) can only inset images in a post using an external url. A bit of a pain, and several extra steps... so adding an image isn't a spontaneous thing... Remember the file upload button for images ..read more

I am preparing to begin submitting my novel The Santaland Affair to agents and publishers, and I need some help with my query letter. I've read some query letter guides, heard there is a difference between what US and UK agents and publishers want in a query letter... At the moment, it's longer than I want, though I don't know if that's a bad thing. Any suggestions or thoughts would be helpful, even from people who haven't queried before! Here's the letter as I have it currently... Query Letter Help ..read more

As I write this, we are approaching Christmas, a time for some of traditions – presents, pantomimes and ballet performances, for example. The latest novel by Erika Johansen reminds us of such things, but is a much darker take on many of those traditional tales. To start with though, the story begins with many of ..read more

I read Ben Bova’s Orion series and enjoyed it very much (except for the brutal violence) and would like to read more but don’t know where to start. Bova wrote over 100 books, including ten series. Which ones are worth reading? I’m interested in fiction only, and would love some information and/or recommendations. Help ..read more

Hi folks, there was a book, a collection of some sort, of sci-fi stories I read some 10 years ago.. one of the stories I remember where there was a boy with a rich mother in a cyberculture environment, where kids were holding virtual parties, his mother always visiting virtual malls, freaks would "donwload themselves into computers", the kid had a butler of some sort, (or not?? hmm..), and from one day to the next he became somehow outcast, all his credit cards were annulled, some cyber... Looking for anthology - boy downloading into computer ..read more

I am so glad I found your forums! You even have the exact section I needed! OK... Sometime back in the 90's when I was reading hard SF by authors like James P. Hogan, and enjoying the heck out of the Rama series, I found some unknown author writing about the first ships to, get this, sail out amongst the stairs. They used some sort of solar sail or light sail, and they sailed on the galactic winds, or something like that. If this rings a bell at all could you give me the author's... OK, this is a tough one... A series with ships that use light sails ..read more

One that would happily have fit into our Halloween reviews this year, Emilia’s novel involves witchcraft and strange goings-on at various times in English history. The story follows the lives of three women – Altha is a twenty-one-year-old living in Northern England in 1619, Violet is a young girl living in 1942 and Kate is ..read more

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