The Apocalypse Arrives and It’s Weird
Today sees the launch of an ambitious new series from Nick Cole and Michael Bunker, titled Apocalypse Weird. The concept is simple: the end of the world is very f-ing nigh and you have front row...
View ArticleReader Advisory: Reversal
Have you ever had one of those days where things go wrong, and then instead of straightening out, they just go wronger and wronger until everything you know is just completely screwed up? Sasha has...
View ArticleReader’s Advisory: AW: Phoenix Lights
Ezra Pound famously told writers to “make it new” even while others told them there was nothing new under the sun. Eric Tozzi has managed to do both with the latest addition to the Apocalypse Weird...
View ArticleReader Advisory: AW: Medium Talent
Confession time: I just finished Forbes West’s addition to the AW universe, Medium Talent, and oh, does my head hurt. West has a Hemmingway thing going on, and it’s grizzly, ugly, and stressful to...
View ArticleYou Can Have WEIRD Things
(I know, I owe you a post about imagining the “death of the library.” But this is a big deal.) I recently got into a Facebook thread with a former (now grown up) student over e-book pricing decisions....
View ArticleLast Chance for WEIRD Things
Remember last week when I told you about the Apocalypse Weird fund raiser? Of course you do. You came here and read about it. Maybe you even clicked on the campaign link and donated. And you did these...
View ArticleAnd Now, A Singularity!
The Legacy Human by Susan Kay Quinn What would you give to live forever? Seventeen-year-old Elijah Brighton wants to become an ascender—a post-Singularity human/machine hybrid—after all, they’re...
View ArticleReader’s Advisory: The Immortality Chronicles
It’s a deceptively simple bit of wordcraft: you take the word “mortal,” stick a two letter prefix on it, and you get a word which raises a dizzying variety of possibility. Mortality is every bit as...
View ArticleReader’s Advisory: Star Wars: Aftermath
Nothing ever endsI don’t generally read Star Wars novels. I read and loved Alan Dean Foster’s Splinter of the Mind’s Eye and Brian Daley’s Han Solo at Star’s End decades ago because they were on the...
View ArticleIntroducing Chronicle Worlds: Feyland
Imagine if you will, a world of the future. A world where rich kids are chipped to run automated houses and fly in grav-powered limos while poor kids watch their families dissolve into poor health and...
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