Author Archives: Ernest Lilley

Science Fiction to Look for in June 2020

Originally Published: Amazing Stories, https://amazingstories.com/?p=202037

Last month certainly ended with excitement and good news for science fiction fans with the successful crew launch and docking of Dragon at the ISS. It’s a measure of how much SpaceX is normalizing space travel that we know Bob and Doug by their first names, rather than the more formal recognition of earlier pioneers like Lindberg, Glen, or Armstrong. But now that the excitement is over for a while, you’ll be needing some interesting science fiction to read. You’ve come to the right place. Continue reading →

The Relentless MoonA Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal

The Relentless MoonA Lady Astronaut Novel by Mary Robinette Kowal 07/14/2020 Macmillan-Tor/Forge

This one stars Nicole Wargin, one of the original 6 Lady Astronauts in this 1950 alt-history where a meteor impact forces the world to look to Mars for a new home for humanity. Earth is facing a slow death, and Kowal has managed to create all the excitement of the space race with a (mostly) new set of players. The biggest technological difference is the lack of electronic computers, relying on the sort of people we saw in Hidden Figures, often women, frequently people of color, and always having to fight for their place. Continue reading →

Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air (The Frost Files #2) by Jackson Ford

Random Sh*t Flying Through the Air
(The Frost Files #2)
by Jackson Ford
06/16/2020 (Orbit)

Teagen, The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind, is back and things are looking up for her. She’s got a steady job working for the China Shop a cover ops team based in L.A. under the guise of a moving company, her friend Nic is getting closer to getting closer, and nobody is trying to arrest her for murder, which was a thing in the first book. She’s Teagan is the most self-absorbed hero ever to brandish special powers, but she’s getting better. Of course that can’t last. Continue reading →

Eggs

In my senior year of high school, I was sent to live with my grandparents, because I was being difficult. One of the upsides to this was that when I went to the new school, they asked me what classes I wanted to take, something that had never happened before. I’m pretty sure that’s because I was on some sort of college track, which kept putting me in upper-level math and science courses, which I kept nearly failing.

It turned out that you could take classes in drawing, ceramics, and photography. There was even something called “Interdisciplinary Environmental Science” which included a week (in the dead of winter) at the NJ State Ecological center where I slept in an unheated cabin and hiked all day. Continue reading →