Tag: science fiction


  • The Prousting of Samuelle Calder
    Day 7 of the Veins Blog Tour

    I hope you grabbed your copy of Veins while the e-book edition was on sale for $0.99 at FE, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. The sale has officially ended, but a check of the sites indicates that the discount is still listed at all but Kobo . . . so there’s still time (though I can’t say how much). If you want a…

  • This Week’s Mine Meld at SF Signal:
    Favorite Library and Bookstore Memories

    From this week’s installment of The Mine Meld at SF Signal: I grew up in Levittown in the 1960s. Ten square miles of uniformity, hundreds of houses just like mine, thousands of people just like me. To escape the normalcy, my friends and I imagined strange worlds with alien landscapes, adventures in places where weird…

  • More Highlights from Stories @ Riley’s

    So much to do . . . so little time! If you live in the western Pennsylvania area, the next few days are going to offer something for everyone: the world-premier comedy A New Death at The Throughline Theatre in Lawrenceville (currently running through July 26), the Confluence science fiction convention in Mars (July 25-27),…

  • Randall Silvis:
    One of the Writers on Writing @ Riley’s

    The first in a series of profiles on some of the writers being featured at this month’s Writers on Writing @ Riley’s. Hailed as “a masterful storyteller” by the New York Times Book Review, Randall Silvis is the author of fourteen critically acclaimed books of fiction and nonfiction in various genres. A former contributing writer…

  • Have Stories: Will Travel

    Continuing the tradition of the traveling bard, the 21st Century Scop will be hitting the road this week, heading off to England to give readings at the University of Brighton on Wednesday, October 30 (5:30 PM), and then at the World Fantasy Convention’s Reading Café on Saturday, November 2 (12:30 PM). If you’re going to…

  • Book City

    I sometimes get the feeling that we book people are citizens of a kind of portable municipality, a diffused city that reforms around various conventions, conferences, festivals, symposiums, and literary events. We’re united by the love of story, the feel of books, and the knowledge that vicarious experience can be as meaningful and real as…