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TEA AND LEMMING MEN — AN INTERVIEW WITH TOBY FROST 26 Aug 2013 | 09:19 am
Toby Frost declares that he originally intended to write deep philosophical novels. Instead, he elected to become a man of mystery (no biography of the elusive Mr. Frost can be found on the internet) ...
300 Word Writing Challenge #10 26 Aug 2013 | 04:22 am
Once again, the victory in our quarterly writing challenge goes to writer Em Tett (known on these forums as Mouse). Each quarter, members are challenged to write a story of 300 words or less, inspired...
Review: We Who Are About To… by Joanna Russ 25 Aug 2013 | 10:37 pm
We Who Are About To… by Joanna Russ (1977) One of the notable characteristics of speculative fiction is the tendency for newer authors to build on the work of earlier writers. Sometimes the connectio...
Review: Analog, November, 2013 24 Aug 2013 | 10:51 am
This month’s issue brings us eight stories, many of which assume catastrophic climate change as an obligatory part of the background furniture while only one really makes it central. The others cover ...
Dragon Age: Inquisition info 20 Aug 2013 | 02:46 pm
There are small spoilers for the game within this post, so if you’re on a self-imposed information blackout for Inquisition you should probably stop reading. Game Informer is having a month of Inquis...
Review: The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. 14 Aug 2013 | 10:05 am
At one point, when making my way through a particularly dense thicket of prose, it occurred to me that reading the Annual can be like eating my vegetables, but there is some dessert in here, too, and ...
Review: Adrift on the Sea of Rains by Ian Sales 8 Aug 2013 | 06:44 pm
To start with this is not the normal type of book that I would choose to read, and it is not a full length, rather a novella. Set in an alternative time line where the world suffered a third world wa...
Review: Dragon’s Tongue by Laura K Underwood 6 Aug 2013 | 08:22 pm
Laura J Underwood has been a member of the Chronicles Network since August 2006, and although not a prolific poster looks in regularly. She has the stunningly clever user name of LauraJUnderwood. I ha...
The World’s End – Is this really the End? 29 Jul 2013 | 02:32 pm
The World’s End – Is this really the End? I have three favourite aspects to the films of Edgar Wright, firstly it is Edgar himself. His directorial style is fun, witty and inventive. He uses his trad...
Review: Analog, October 2013 20 Jul 2013 | 04:32 am
The October 2013 Analog is a definite improvement over the last issue, though there is an excess of dubious themes and plots. There are at least two wars with China in this issue, two Mars stories and...
