He Had to Die: A Conversation with David Weber by Jeremy L. C. Jones
David Weber has been writing about Honor Harrington for twenty years. The original proposals, as sent to Jim Baen back in the 90s, promised space opera featuring a female naval officer. Harrington was...
View ArticleThree Oranges by D. Elizabeth Wasden
Orange stained the entire room. Orange juice. Zest. Peels. I scratched at the moist peel over a flowerpot and covered the shavings with soil. The flowerpot had cracked this time. I should buy another....
View ArticleDiving After the Moon by Rachel Swirsky (audio)
Our first piece of audio fiction for February is "Diving After the Moon" written by Rachel Swirsky and read by Kate Baker. Subscribe to our podcast.
View ArticleDiving After the Moon by Rachel Swirsky
When Norbu was a child, his mother Jamyang told him an old Tibetan story about an industrious but foolish troop of monkeys that lived in a forest near a well. One dusty night, a monkey elder woke...
View ArticleThree Oranges by D. Elizabeth Wasden (audio)
Our second piece of audio fiction for February is "Three Oranges" written by D. Elizabeth Wasden and read by Kate Baker. Subscribe to our podcast.
View ArticleDrama Hobbits, Mosquitoes, and Other Negotiations: A Conversation with Cory...
Cory Doctorow has a pretty straight-forward job. All he has to do is, as he says, "keep up with new technological developments" and write prose that makes his readers want to live life as though it...
View ArticleCinema 2.0: The Future of Movie Making? by Mark Cole
Film producer Matt Hanson calls it Cinema 2.0. Using a radical new model derived from the social networking web phenomenon and the Creative Commons/Open Source movement, this unprecedented evolutionary...
View ArticlePerfect Lies by Gwendolyn Clare
The only enjoyable part of my daily meeting with Losin was the view. One large panoramic viewport made up the far wall of his grandiose office—a perk of being the Director-General of the UN Interworld...
View ArticleThe Book of Phoenix Excerpted from The Great Book by Nnedi Okorafor (audio)
Our first piece of audio fiction for March is "The Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book)" written by Nnedi Okorafor and read by Kate Baker. Subscribe to our podcast.
View ArticleThe Book of Phoenix (Excerpted from The Great Book) by Nnedi Okorafor
There is no book about me. Well, not yet. No matter. I shall create it myself; it's better that way. To tell my tale, I will use the old African tools of story: Spoken words. They're more trustworthy...
View ArticlePerfect Lies by Gwendolyn Clare (audio)
Our second piece of audio fiction for March is "Perfect Lies" written by Gwendolyn Clare and read by Kate Baker. Subscribe to our podcast.
View ArticleSame Story with a 21st Century Sensibility: A Conversation with John Scalzi...
In the opening scene of Fuzzy Nation, a dog named Carl steps on a detonator panel and sets off more than just the plot. The novel, as Scalzi says, is a "reimagining of the story and events in Little...
View ArticleLinguistics for the World-Builder by Brit Mandelo
Constructing a believable, habitable universe is one of the first things a writer of speculative fiction has to tackle — the idea of the world, its shapes and peoples, is a necessary thing to telling...
View ArticleMatchmaker by Erin M. Hartshorn
"You're not exactly what I expected when my mother said she'd found a shadchen." Miss Berazazz could've been Jewish, sure. The first kurz had converted only a few years after the kurz and humans had...
View ArticleThe Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu (audio)
Our first piece of audio fiction for April is "The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees" written by E. Lily Yu and read by Kate Baker. Subscribe to our podcast.
View ArticleThe Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees by E. Lily Yu
For longer than anyone could remember, the village of Yiwei had worn, in its orchards and under its eaves, clay-colored globes of paper that hissed and fizzed with wasps. The villagers maintained an...
View ArticleMatchmaker by Erin M. Hartshorn (audio)
Our second piece of audio fiction for April is "Matchmaker" written by Erin M. Hartshorn and read by Kate Baker. Subscribe to our podcast.
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