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Review: Aether – Molly J. Bragg

Aether - Molly J. Bragg

Genre: Superhero Reviewer: Beáta Get It On Amazon About The Book When Maggie Bennett agreed to take a break from her own research to be the test subject in an experiment, all she wanted to do was help her best friend Sierra secure grant funding for the new medical imaging machine she was developing. But … Read more

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Dying Stars Build Cocoons that Shake the Fabric of Space-Time

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Since the first direct detection of the space-time ripples known as gravitational waves was announced in 2016, astronomers regularly listen for the ringing of black holes across the universe. Projects like the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (better known as LIGO) have detected almost 100 collisions between black holes (and sometimes neutron stars), which shake up … Read more

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Review: Endurance – Elaine Burnes

Endurance - Elaine Burnes

Genre: Sci-Fi Reviewer: Beáta Get It On Amazon About The Book Winner—2023 GCLS Award for Science Fiction/FantasyFinalist—2023 GCLS Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award “Imagine Star Trek Voyager, but done right” — nerds of a feather, flock together What if you were stranded. On a spaceship. Four light years from Earth. With a hundred tourists. And … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Astronomers Find New Invisible Filaments at the Heart of the Milky Way

Radio observations of the Milky Way's center, including hundreds of newly discovered filaments (the smaller, yellowish lines and dots). (Image credit: Farhad Yusef-Zadeh/Northwestern University)

Astronomers have discovered hundreds of strange, stringlike structures at the center of our galaxy, possibly tracing the violent path of an ancient black hole eruption. According to new research published June 2 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, each of these previously unknown “filaments” measures between 5 and 10 light-years in length — thousands of times … Read more

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Double Review: The Gauntlet Runner – J. Scott Coatsworth

The Gauntlet Runner - J. Scott Coatsworth

Genre: Sci-Fantasy, YA-Adult Crossover Reviewers: Maryann, Ulysses Get It On Amazon | Publisher/Signed Copies | Apple | B&N | Google | Kobo | Smashwords | Universal Buy Link About The Book A guard and a thief. What could go wrong? Aik has fallen hopelessly in love with his best friend. But Raven’s a thief, which … Read more

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New Release / Giveaway: The Gauntlet Runner – J. Scott Coatsworth

The Gauntlet Runner - J. Scott Coatsworth

J. Scott Coatsworth has a new queer sci-fantasy book out, The Tharassas Cycle Book Two: The Gauntlet Runner. And there’s a giveaway! A GUARD AND A THIEF. WHAT COULD GO WRONG? Aik has fallen hopelessly in love with his best friend. But Raven’s a thief, which makes things… complicated. Oh, and Raven has just been … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Will the Whole Universe Eventually Evaporate?

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Stephen Hawking’s most famous theory about black holes has just been given a sinister update — one that proclaims that everything in the universe is doomed to evaporate. In 1974, Hawking proposed that black holes eventually evaporate by losing what’s now known as Hawking radiation — a gradual draining of energy in the form of … Read more

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Review: The Flying Mermaid – Eule Grey

The Flying Mermaid - Eule Grey

Genre: Fantasy, Alternate Universe Reviewer: Lucy Get It At Amazon | Publisher | Universal Buy Link About The Book All Luce wants is to go home, but how can she? Since the war, her beloved city has been under an enchantment. Rivers run dry and the streets are haunted, or so they say.When she hears a rumor that the … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Elon Musk Wants to Put a Chip in Someone’s Brain

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Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink has been given clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to carry out its first trials in humans, according to news reports. Neuralink aims to use its brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to restore movement in people with quadriplegia, meaning complete or partial paralysis of the arms, legs and … Read more

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Review: OverLondon – George Penney & Tony Johnson

OverLondon - George Penney & Tony Johnson

Genre: Comic Fantasy, Crime, Mystery, Satire, Steampunk Reviewer: Maryann Get It On Amazon About The Book A Rollicking Comic-Fantasy Whodunnit with a Tudor Twist! Priests from OverLondon’s Church of Vengeful Acquisition are exploding. Is the cause divine retribution, ballistic undergarments or something more sinister? If only the city had a professional private investigator… Luckily, notorious … Read more