In George R.R. Martin’s fantastical land of Westeros in Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon, the spectacle of dragons breathing fire captivates his audience through a blend of myth and fantasy. For me at least, there’s also scientific curiosity. The images of dragons unleashing torrents of flames on the new series of House … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Jane Suen Sci-Fi Jane Suen is an award-winning author who writes mysteries, speculative sci-fi, short stories, contemporary romance, and crime fiction. She is a transplant to the South who has taken a liking to grits, iced tea, and snow cones – … Read more
A satellite orbiting Mars has captured the best-ever images of a gigantic “scar” carved across the Red Planet’s surface. The dark ravine, which is accompanied by unusual zebra-like stripes, is likely the result of extreme volcanic activity millions of years ago. The striking surface feature, named Aganippe Fossa, is a graben — a “ditch-like groove … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Frank Schildiner Horror Frank Schildiner has been a pulp fan since a friend gave him a gift of Philip Jose Farmer’s TARZAN ALIVE. Since that time he has published articles on Hellboy, the Frankenstein films, Dark Shadows and the television’s Lovecraftian … Read more
Genre: Sci-Fi, Space Opera Reviewer: Scott Get It On Amazon | Universal Buy Link About The Book Running on caffeine and spite with nothing left to prove. GOLDEN GIRLS meets FIREFLY in this rollicking space opera adventure. Maryn Alessi retired from mercenary service after her last assignment went horribly sideways and settled down on a quiet planet … Read more
E.M. Hamill has a new queer women-led space western out (pan, lesbian, aro/ace), Team Huntress book one: Whiskey and Warfare. And there’s a giveaway! Running on caffeine and spite with nothing left to prove. GOLDEN GIRLS meets FIREFLY in this rollicking space opera adventure. Maryn Alessi retired from mercenary service after her last assignment went … Read more
The remarkable aurora in early May this year demonstrated the power that solar storms can emit as radiation, but occasionally the sun does something far more destructive. Known as “solar particle events”, these blasts of protons directly from the surface of the sun can shoot out like a searchlight into space. Records show that around … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Cara N. Delaney Fantasy, Horror Cara lives in a hole in the ground, where she spends her days building whole worlds with nothing but words on the page and a lively imagination. She may be summoned with a potion brewed from … Read more
“Warp drives” used by super-advanced alien civilizations may create specific space-time ripples in their wake that we can spot from Earth, a new paper argues. However, the jury is still out on whether the faster-than-light technology is even possible to create in the first place. A warp drive is a hypothetical device that enables an … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Tracy Shew Fantasy, Non-Fiction Tracy Shew has had a varied life: Art Historian, professional pyrotechnician, professional philatelist, fledgling painter and sculptor, and once he managed the storage facility where Timothy McVeigh had rented a unit, necessitating a week-long vacation as investigators … Read more
