{"id":6360,"date":"2020-10-02T10:17:14","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.e357.net\/beingernest\/?p=6360"},"modified":"2020-10-02T10:17:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T14:17:14","slug":"science-fiction-to-look-for-october-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e357.net\/beingernest\/science-fiction-to-look-for-october-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Fiction to Look for October 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the into and list from my October Amazing Stories Column<\/a>. Feedback encouraged. – Ern<\/p>\n

October surprised me by not offering up tales of futuristic hauntings and horror, and I’m not complaining. Ghosts in the machine are fine by me, but that’s where I like to keep them. 2020 has been scary enough already.<\/b>
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What we did get was several good space operas, including a return to Elizabeth Bear’s White Space<\/em> universe; a new book from Kim Stanley Robinson on how to save the planet from mankind and live to tell about it, the last of Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother<\/em> novels about life in times of future DHS, and a sexy police procedural from Amanda Bridgeman that will make you long for the 80s. It was also a good month for anthologies, and I take a look at Ben Bova’s favorite picks as well as a curated collection of really fine stories from Escape Pod’s fifteen years of podcasting. Finally, there’s a collection of stories from Cixin Liu, most from his earlier work that gives a window into both author and culture.<\/p>\n

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