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The Star Bound Playlist
By Bruce McCandless III Emily Carney and I wrote our book Star Bound: A Beginner’s Guide to the American Space Program, from Goddard’s Rockets to Goldilocks Planets and Everything In Between, with the aim of creating a space history for the rest of us. No complicated equations. No technospeak or rocket-talk. We focus instead on […] More
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Time: The 100 Must-Read Books of 2024
The fiction, nonfiction, and poetry books that entertained and enlightened us.
Barnes & Noble: Best Fiction of 2024
Barnes and Noble best fiction books of the year 2024 including captivating new favorites and bestsellers
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African Exponent: Top 10 African Books to Add to Your Holiday Reading List
Celebrate the holidays with the best African books. Explore captivating stories like The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, Kindred Creation, and Slaveroad. Perfect for quiet moments this season.
Twice-Spent Comet by Ziggy Schutz
Twice-Spent Comet by Ziggy Schutz is a poignant novella that intertwines elements of science fiction and fairy tale to explore themes of redemption, found family, and the enduring power of hope. The narrative centers on Fer, a former rebel now serving a fifteen-year sentence on a desolate asteroid alongside a handful of other convicts. Their […] More
Independent Book Review: The Best Books We Read in 2024
THE BEST BOOKS WE READ in 2024 is a collaborative book list by the reviewers at IBR in which they review the best books they read this year irrespective of their publication date. It consists solely of books by indie presses and indie authors.
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Mysticism Across Literary Lines
by Margaret Dulaney My grandmother studied the writings of the Austrian mystic Rudolf Steiner most of her life. Her child-friendly notions of nature spirits, angels, water sprites and dryads opened a door in my imagination which has never shut. After leaving home, I was to go on a lifelong search of the mystical writings from […] More
Five Books that Inspired The Sum of All Things
By Seb Doubinsky A writer is first and foremost a reader, but a reader with a writing project of their own. This is why a writer never “just reads” books: he/she/they is/are always working, looking for a spark in other books to ignite their own creativity. It is neither stealing, nor appropriating, but transmuting — […] More
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Locus Magazine: 2024 World Fantasy Awards Winners
The World Fantasy Awards winners for works published in 2023 were presented during the 2024 World Fantasy Convention, held October 17-20, 2024 in Niagara Falls NY. The Life Achievement Awards, pres…
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Independent Publisher: A Room In Athens by Frances Karlen Santamaria
Review by Karen Chutsky * * * * * They say artists hover a bit outside of life; too obsessed with observing, contemplating and recording their impressions of it to be one hundred percent involved in it. Such is the pensive writing style of Frances Karlen Santamaria, best described through the words of her adoring son: “…she dashed off written watercolor like impr
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