You may have heard the myth that humans use only 10% of their brains. That statement is patently untrue — most people use all of their brains, all of the time. But for people who have survived a stroke, traumatic brain injuries or brain resectioning surgeries, things do get less clear. In fact, many of … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Grant Edward Miller Sci Fi I live in the small community of Fox Point, Nova Scotia, Canada in “Otter Cottage” — named for the river animal with which I strongly identify. I am a French immersion teacher by trade and now … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Sandy Esene Fantasy Sandy Esene is a self-professed ancient cultures geek. Traveling to ancient ruin sites around the world is one of her great passions. Over the years, she has traveled to over twenty countries including Greece, Malta, Jordan, Turkey, Belize, … Read more
We think of oxygen as life, sustenance, a literal breath of fresh air. But it’s actually a very reactive element. Anyone who’s burned a log has witnessed this firsthand. So why do so many life-forms breathe oxygen? There are probably thousands of kinds of metabolisms, or chemical processes that maintain life, said Donald Canfield, a … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: John B. Rosenman Sci Fi John was an English professor at Norfolk State University where he designed and taught a course in how to write Science fiction and Fantasy. He is a former Chairman of the Board of the Horror Writers … Read more
A bizarre ancient life-form, considered to be the first giant organism to live on land, may belong to a totally unknown branch of the tree of life, scientists say. These organisms, named Prototaxites, lived around 420 million to 375 million years ago during the Devonian period and resembled branchless, cylindrical tree trunks. These organisms would … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Barbara Krasnoff Fantasy, Sci Fi Barbara Krasnoff has had short stories in over 45 print and online publications, including Space & Time, Andromeda Spaceways, Mythic Delirium, Abyss & Apex, and a variety of others. Her story “Sabbath Wine,” which was published … Read more
Current approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) are unlikely to create models that can match human intelligence, according to a recent survey of industry experts. Out of the 475 AI researchers queried for the survey, 76% said the scaling up of large language models (LLMs) was “unlikely” or “very unlikely” to achieve artificial general intelligence (AGI), … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: Matthew Phillion Fantasy, Sci Fi Matthew Phillion is a writer, actor, and film director based in Salem, Massachusetts and the author of the Indestructibles Young Adult superhero adventure series, its spinoff, Echo and the Sea, and the newly launched Dungeon Crawlers … Read more
It’s the Daily LFS – Lim Fic Spotlight from the Liminal Fiction website. Today: R. Sinclair Sci Fi R. Sinclair (she/they) is a queer Canadian author and writer of the Shattered Numbers Duology, a sci-fi thriller series about a con woman and her murderous AI partner. Sinclair is currently under siege by spiders. https://www.limfic.com/mbm-book-author/r-sinclair YOU … Read more
