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A Free Novelette by Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff “Hand-Me-Down Town” was originally published in Analog Science Fiction Magazine in 1989 and was my first published work of fiction. I wrote it in reaction to the criminalization of homelessness by a California town trying to protect its tourist industry. The name of the town in this novella …
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The Cursed Canvases The Ladies of Almack’s #4 by Marissa Doyle Art is NOT always for art’s sake…as the Ladies of Almack’s discover
I’m irritated about gas prices (and all the knock-on effects) but probably not for the reasons you might think. I’m irritated because it should have happened decades ago. Let me explain.
Today, communication fans, I’d like to dismantle four sentence-like sequences of words that have something in common: muddled meanings caused by a poor (or possibly clever) choice of words. Who said them and with what intent is irrelevant to the discussion. I leave it to you, Dear Reader, to attach significance in the broader realm …
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The Golden Plan by Patricia Rice Someone is murdering lawyers and their ghosts are demanding justice.
Marian Halcombe #1 The Thrilling Victorian Adventures of the Most Dangerous Woman in Europe Now in print! Miss Marian Halcombe returns from the pages of THE WOMAN IN WHITE for Victorian adventure! The redoubtable Marian Halcombe first burst onto the world in the 1860s in THE WOMAN IN WHITE. Refusing to rest on her laurels, …
BVC Announces Marian Halcombe by Brenda W. Clough is now in print Read More »
House of Birds by Steven Popkes Is a terraformed Venus full of dinosaurs worth it?
A review of Ursula K. Le Guin‘s No Time to Spare, a collection of her blog posts, Originally published September 8, 2017 “In 2010, at the age of 81, the acclaimed novelist Ursula K. Le Guin started a blog. Blogs never seemed a likely destination for the writer, who by then had a long career …
What Happens When a Science Fiction Genius Starts Blogging? Read More »
The Vanishing Volume The Ladies of Almack’s #2 by Marissa Doyle The Ladies of Almack’s: fighting supernatural crime since 1771…
Lure of Song and Magic California Malcolms series 1 by Patricia Rice High-powered producer Dylan “Oz” Oswin is so desperate to find his kidnapped son that he’s willing to do or believe anything, including follow a mysterious tip that leads him to a missing former child singing sensation. Now a reclusive children’s book author, Pippa …
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The Indigo Solution by Patricia Rice Can a no-nonsense lawyer and a capricious free spirit solve crime without murdering each other?
Magic Man Magical Malcolms #6 by Patricia Rice Can the hopes of a lonely laird be answered by a vicar’s daughter with magic in her hands? Convinced he brings destruction wherever he goes, enigmatic Aidan Dougal is alienated from a family he can never call his own. For such a man, affection is impossible and …
