What did you blog about today?

[Vince W]

I review the Robert Silverberg collection The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party.

'The Conglomeroid Cocktail Party' Highlights Robert Silverberg's Talent -

 

[Biskit]

"Sin Seer", another short for #BlogBattle...

Sin Seer

I’m no angel, and when someone offers to easily wash me of my sins, I can smell a scam. If it were that easy, everyone would be doing it. When that someone comes into my shop and offers me the oppo…

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(This month's prompt was "Extract" May #BlogBattle: Extract)

 

[AnRoinnUltra]

Put a 100 worder to audio, so a 58 second story type thing: A 58 second Irish Sci-Fi Story

 

[StilLearning]

Our weekly link-storm / round-up / obsessive's scrap-book of news and events from off world:

Virgin Galactic readies a return to flight, the first private space station by 2025 and loads more...

#space #industry #exploration

This week, off world: Virgin Galactic readies a return to flight, the first private space station by 2025 and loads more...

Here’s where you can donate to help Ukrainian refugees and war victims ... ...and here is (one) place you can donate to help children in A...

ancientsolarsystem.blogspot.com

 

[thaddeus6th]

An early review of Age of Wonders 4, which I'm rather liking:

Early Impressions Age of Wonders 4 (PS5)

Generally speaking, pre-ordering video games is a bad idea and I don’t usually do it. However, Age of Wonders 4 seemed to tick so many b...

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[AnRoinnUltra]

The problem with woke comedy
Just a bit of messing, pretended to take one of the acts out back and set him straight on cancel culture at last week's Sci-Fi comedy night. A small dig at how no established comedian is seeing fit to ridicule the way online media is managed. One of the audience came out for a smoke during the nonsense & took it for real

 

[Vince W]

I review Monument by Lloyd Biggle Jr.

‘Monument’ Naïvely Tackles Colonialism - Incomplete Futures

 

[The Big Peat]

April 2023 Round Up

April was such a long time ago I’m not sure I even remember it. Still, here’s what I can recall… WHAT I READ Good month innit bruv Fantasy Beyond by Mercedes Lackey – N…

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The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien

Credit Tithi Luadthong. When I did my first Lord of the Rings review for Wyrd & Wonder, I talked about the problems of talking about a book so famous. The worries of whether there was a point. …

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[StilLearning]

An Ancient Solar System: This week, off world:

Political fighting over Space Force National Guard, wooden satellites and loads more....

#space #industry #exploration https://ancientsolarsystem.blogspot.com/2023/05/this-week-off-world-political-fighting.html

 

[Vince W]

Review of Starfish by Peter Watts

You Need To Read 'Starfish' - Incomplete Futures

 

[Rodders]

Nice review. Great to see that you too are part of the Media Death Cult.

 

[Vince W]

Getting the hang of Thursdays. Happy Towel Day.
Towel Day: A Guide To Thursdays - Incomplete Futures

 

[The Big Peat]

“With My Whole Heart and Soul”: Interview with Krystle Matar

Credit Tithi Luadthong. After noticing how many things I strongly agreed with Krystle about, I decided it would be a lot of fun to sit down and do a proper interview with her. Happily she said yes,…

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Duty Is Heavier Than A Mountain: A Ramble on Men and Mental Burdens in Early Epic Fantasy

So we go on. My most recent rambles took the point of view that early Epic Fantasy – a group of authors I would consider as from Terry Brooks up to but excluding GRR Martin – wrote abou…

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[StilLearning]

Our weekly link-storm / round-up / obessive's scrapbook of news and events off world:

Destroyed planetary systems examined, Rocket Lab launches two tiny satellites, SpaceX launches a huge one and loads more....

#space #industry #exploration

This week, off world: Destroyed planetary systems examined, Rocket Lab launches two tiny satellites, SpaceX launches a huge one and loads more

Here’s where you can donate to help Ukrainian refugees and war victims ... ...and here is (one) place you can donate to help children in A...

ancientsolarsystem.blogspot.com

 

[Vince W]

A review of The Black Star by Lin Carter.

‘The Black Star’ Homages Too Many Sources - Incomplete Futures

 

[The Big Peat]

May 2023 Roundup

Here’s what I got up to in May. WHAT I READ It was Wyrd & Wonder, so we only need one of these categories this month Fantasy Northern Lights by Philip Pullman – Reread that didn&#82…

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The Fantasy Hero Blues

Credit astromoali I am an epic fantasy heroGrew up on a farm, a total zeroUntil one grim day, these riders in blackCame to my village, ready to attackThe wise wizard grabbed hold of me and sai…

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[Vince W]

Another Silverberg review:

‘The World Inside’ Reveals Cracks in Utopia -

 

[Stephen Palmer]

Next week on my blog is Two Choices Week, looking at those hidden forces of the unconscious which can be the most powerful motivating and imaginative forces felt, and used, by authors. I’ll be writing five blogs on various aspects of the choice that some authors face: professional therapy, or write novels?
May be of interest to writers here.

stephenpalmersf

Notes from genre author Stephen Palmer

stephenpalmersf.wordpress.com

 

[Vince W]

Something for fans of The Thing.

There May Be A ‘The Thing 2’ -

 

[Stephen Palmer]

As of today, I'm placing all my writing related to the human condition and human evolution on my new Substack site. Posts will be weekly. You can subscribe to this - in fact, please do! To start things off, I've posted a recent article that you may have missed.

The Trickster

Or, theory of mind.

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