I had so much fun with Fort Tomato (II) last week, that I needed an excuse for more woodworking. Well, there happened to be a fresh crop of mushrooms in the soggy section of the lawn and I planned to weed them, and a hose that needed mending, but I hate getting down on my knees. They never did bend all that way, and they do so less now. Continue reading
Think the blackness of space is scary? Wait till you see the darkness in the ocean below the ice on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.
Driving the Deep (Finder Chronicles #2)
by Suzanne Palmer
May 5th, 2020 DAW
Fergus Ferguson is a lost boy with a talent for finding things…no matter where in the galaxy they wind up. Granted, he’s not been a boy for quite a while, but his childhood traumas still haunt him — an abusive mother and a father that committed suicide in front of him — and that’s bound to leave a mark.
He ran away from Scotland when he was old enough to steal an older cousin’s motorcycle, and it’s been hanging over his head ever since. Though he’s built a career, and a reputation, as a sort of galactic repo man and troubleshooter, been captured and changed by aliens, and found a group of friends at the edge of the Solar System that he’d do anything for, it’s his past that he can’t get past. Continue reading
I don’t read a lot of fantasy, but there are a few books I love. Kim Antieau’s Coyote Cowgirl, Tim Pratt’s debut novel The Strange Adventures of Rangergirl, and Richard Grant’s In the Land of Winter. Even though I have all three in hardcover, I have them in eBook version too, except for Grant’s, because that’s not available. Which is why I’ve read most of Kim Antieau’s work, a fair amount of Tim Pratt’s, and only one of Richard Grant’s. Continue reading
Originally Published: Amazing Stories, April 6. 2020
I hope you’re all doing ok out there, staying inside and keeping safe. Fortunately, as science fiction readers, we’re not the ones saying, “Nobody could have seen this coming,” because we’ve seen it coming since H.G. Wells slew a Martian invasion by infecting aliens with Earth germs. So stay safe, and catch up on your reading. Continue reading
Walking out in the evening
we saw a group of neighbors
not from our block
but not far off
standing much too close. Continue reading