Author Archive

Coming Up… Main Fiction: “Last Flight of the Acurus” by Robert J. McCarter Originally published in Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine Robert J. McCarter lives in the mountains of Arizona with his beautiful wife and his ridiculously  adorable dog, pounding away at the keyboard producing software (to make a living) and stories  (to fill his soul […]

Coming Up… Main Fiction: “12 and Tag” by Gregory Bossert Originally published in Asimov’s. I began writing fiction in 2009, at the age of 47, after artists Iain McCaig and Dermot Power dared me to write a screenplay. I wrote two, and then tried my hand at short stories, the second of which sold to […]

Coming Up… Short Fiction: Reinstalling Eden, by R. Scott Bakker and Eric Schwitzgebel Originally published in Nature magazine. R. Scott Bakker has written eight novels translated into over dozen languages, including Neuropath, a dystopic meditation on the cultural impact of cognitive science, and the nihilistic epic fantasy series, The Prince of Nothing. He lives in […]

Coming Up… Promo: Class Title: The Force of Star Wars: Examining the Epic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZGIvI2TZK4 Main Fiction: “Bethlemen” by Peter Watts Peter Watts is a (former) scientist, author, and convicted felon who spent the first two decades of his adult life as a marine biologist. After fleeing academia for science fiction he became known for  the habit […]

Coming Up… Fact: Looking back in Genre History by Amy H. Sturgis. Interview with world-leading horror anthologist: Ellen Datlow, by Jeremy Szal Main Fiction: “Ticking” by Allen M. Steele Before becoming a science fiction author, Allen Steele was a journalist who’d worked for newspapers and magazines in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Missouri, and his home state […]