Not sure how I missed this info till now, but volume 2 of the quarterly military SF mini-ebook anthology series TROOPERS was published back in March 2023 and is available for a mere $1.99 from Amazon’s Kindle store. Here’s the cover: Its 33 pages include flash fiction from 7 writers and includes reprint of my […]
Read more "Belated Publication News"Two horror legends again team up for the final book of the Gwendy trilogy. They moved and impressed me in the initial novella Gwendy’s Button Box, while Chizmar went solo in Gwendy’s Magic Feather (which I somehow missed). Now King has returned and with Chizmar presents the final installment of Gwendy Peterson’s life, centered around […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: Gwendy’s Final Task"In the latest of the seemingly endless Mrs. Murphy series, Rita Mae Brown (and her feline co-author) stick to the tried-and-true formula its many fans have come to expect. For the uninitiated, that means animal lover Mary “Harry” Haristeen, her horse doctor husband “Fair” and stalwart sheriff’s deputy Cynthia “Coop” Cooper must solve another string […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: Claws For Alarm"Some might object to my classifying this book as science fiction, so here’s my justification. Richard Powers is not strictly a genre writer, it’s true. But this best-selling novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author often uses fantasy or SF tropes in his works. And in this case, he skillfully blends a heart-breaking human story of a […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: Bewilderment"Paige Crutcher’s first novel is a well-crafted and heartfelt story of finding a place and family, of loving them and facing dangers, of gaining and sacrificing for that family. Although The Orphan Witch is her debut book, she’s no novice, with shorter works in numerous anthologies and online publications. For a while she was also […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: The Orphan Witch"What’s Eating the Universe? by Paul Davies (Cosmology/Science Book, 2021). Paul Davies is a theoretical physicist, a winner of several major science awards and a best-selling author. In this brief book (a mere 165 pages of text, plus a 3-page preface) he ably shows his ability to communicate the essences of the big questions regarding […]
Read more "BOOK REVIEW: What’s Eating the Universe"Yes, it’s time for me to run down what I did (and did not) achieve in the year just past. Much of my writing time in 2021 was taken up with work on my (still unfinished) SF Novel, Too Real a War. Finishing and then selling/publishing that one is, of course, a major goal for […]
Read more "Jim Lee’s 2021 Writing Recap (And Preview of What’s Ahead)"
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