Speculative Fiction | Fantasy - Science Fiction
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Aug.15.2009
Sister Serenity and the War of 2059
Synopsis
Unexpectedly pregnant in the year 2059, Hannah Woodson and her husband, Noah, run afoul of the American government’s population growth policies. Attractive, smart, and strong willed Hannah wants to be a good citizen and do the right thing. At first...
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Aug.13.2009
Welcome to Northern Uganda. In 2002, it's a place where tourists are hacked to death with machetes, 12-year-olds with AK-47s wage war, and celebrities futilely try to get people to care. Moses Lwanga is a pacifist doctor caught at the center. But when his life is threatened, Moses suddenly realizes...
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Jun.24.2009
We live in an era of artificial impressions. We are being bombarded by enhanced bass response in sound systems that can be heard through brick walls five blocks away on a dark and stormy night. The dB invasion has attacked us in music, movies, and television to the point of being painful and...
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Jun.23.2009
From Publishers Weekly Thriller writer Massey's strong anthology showcases 20 new horror and suspense stories by African-American writers, both established and upcoming. Massey evokes America's enduring black cultural heritage in his understated "Granddad's Garage," about a humble,...
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Jun.23.2009
Does time exist as a separate dimension? Does it have a unique place with definable limits in space? Does it move independently according to its own purpose? Or does it only move when other things move, completely dependent on prevailing conditions and binding dimensions in its surrounding space-a...
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Jun.23.2009
Writing short stories is not easy. The reason it isn't easy is because they are short. The writer is still charged with producing living characters who have personalities: good, bad, or milksop. Add to that a dynamic narrative that gives you, the reader, an opportunity to see, hear, feel, smell,...
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Jun.15.2009
The collected short stories of H. David Blalock from 1997-2003, appearing on the web and in print.
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May.29.2009
Tales of Evil. Tales of Darkness. Tales of Beasts.
There's the...
Vampire who visits the same girl every night.
Dangerous rumor that turns all too deadly.
Zombie who couldn't look more innocent.
Boarding school plagued by a tortured ghost.
And so...
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May.07.2009
Thomas E. Kennedy, in his introduction for Shadow Bones, commends these twelve stories for the author's dedication "to literature that speculates not so much about the arbitrary manners of our crumbling civilization as its ground zero, about the science which is writing the fiction of our...
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