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Studies show that up to 80% of people have considered writing a book. If you aspire to become an author and need some help getting started, here are eight key strategies to finally get your book written. It might just be easier than you think.
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Makers by Cory Doctorow Many science fiction novels ask, “What is the next big thing?” This is hardly a surprising trend. Within our own lifetimes, we have seen a succession of these next big things. It’s a theme as old as the genre itself. Makers, the extraordinary new novel by Cory Doctorow instead concerns two
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Starfishers Volume 1: Shadowline (Starfishers Trilogy) by Glen Cook REVIEW SUMMARY: An Epic Space Opera tale. BRIEF SYNOPSIS: An interesting, epic space opera revenge tale that weaves together separate story lines into an excellent read. MY REVIEW: PROS: Shadowline pulls together three distinct story lines, weaving them together over the course of the story, in
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The God Engines by John Scalzi “It was time to whip the god,” opens John Scalzi’s The God Engines. I immediately went pale. Remembering that the first chapter of The Android’s Dream was one extended fart joke, all I could think was, Please, no, don’t let this be a masturbation scene. Nothing doing. Very little of
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The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology Edited by Christopher Golden In his foreword to this anthology (titled ‘The New Dead’ if you’re in the US), Christopher Golden asks his reader what the big deal about zombies is these days. That’s quite a brave move to make considering that the foreword comes just before a whole
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The New Dead: A Zombie Anthology edited by Christopher Golden In the Foreword, editor Christopher Golden asks, “Why are we fascinated by zombies?” I’m not sure “The New Dead” anthology ever adequately answers that question, but it does provide readers with a collection of short stories that not only celebrates the zombie genre, but also
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Life, the Universe and Everything (Hitchhiker’s Trilogy) by Douglas Adams Life, the Universe and Everything took me longer to read and held my attention less than the first two books in the series. I think that part of this was due to a complicated plot with mysterious white robots showing up everywhere killing people, and
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The God Engines by John Scalzi If it wasn’t already obvious The God Engines is rife with metaphor; and especially metaphors about faith. Faith as iron. Faith as power. Faith as a weapon. Faith as a doorway. Faith is everything. As the novel also goes on to reveal faith is also absolutely nothing. Again this
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Twelve Kingdoms – Paperback Edition Volume 2: Sea of Wind by Fuyumi Ono Although this is a prequel of sorts to the actual first book, I would recommend beginning with book one. Keiki, a significant character from the previous novel, does make an appearance in this one and I think having previous knowledge about him
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Tides From the New Worlds by Tobias Buckell In Tides from the New Worlds, Tobias Buckell does what the best SF/F writers do: tells stories that touch our minds with wonder and endow our hearts with perception. Reading this collection, for those of us culture-bound West or East, brings science fiction and fantasy to a