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Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey – Vintage Science Fiction Month

By John Folk-Williams

Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey

Every now and then a book surprises me, especially when searching through the often dated fiction for Vintage SciFi Month. Anne McCaffrey’s Dragonflight, first in a mighty line of 23 novels set in the Pern universe, is one of those. It’s a surprise because I’m not a big fan of fantasy, yet I keep finding […]

Filed Under: Fantasy Fiction, Reviews, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: adventure, Anne McCaffrey, dragons, Pern, power, psychic powers, relationships, revenge

Border City: Lavie Tidhar’s Central Station

By John Folk-Williams

SciFiMonth Diversity and Divergence in Nophek Gloss

Lavie Tidhar creates a border city, a liminal place in Central Station that captures in great human depth a future world of interwoven nationalities, identities, destinies and lives. The city around Central Station, a vast spaceport in what was once called Israel or Palestine between the Arab and Jewish areas is one of many blended […]

Filed Under: Reviews, SciFiMonth Tagged With: augmented reality, borders, city, consciousness, love, relationships, spaceport, uploaded minds

The Lost Solace Series by Karl Drinkwater: A Review

By John Folk-Williams

Lost Solace, the Solace Series by Karl Drinkwater

Karl Drinkwater starts off his Lost Solace series in a daring way. A deserter named Opal has stolen a ship with an experimental AI, which she names Clarissa, and sets off to a location in deep space. There she finds a mystery ship, a luxury liner abandoned and strangely altered. Could it be the one? […]

Filed Under: Great Series Read Project, Indie SciFi, Reviews Tagged With: alien life forms, artificial intelligence, family, lost space ships, neutron stars, rebirth, relationships

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Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us into a barely conceivable future. This blog is my small way of exploring the half-perceived … Read More about About

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Welcome to the first edition of New Small Press Fantasy Books. This post will highlight new books that are releasing in March 2021. https://jedherne.com/new-small-press-fantasy-books-march-2021/

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