This is a fascinating look at the old pulp covers of year’s past.
Tag: science fiction
5 Futuristic Women
Five stories of futuristic women, from an artist who makes a first contact in “Sky Hair,” to the private who finds herself in hot water after aliens eat her officer in “Rejected by Aliens.” In “New Robot Smell,” a female soldier has to choose between the military and her life. In “The Scientist’s Widow,” a detective tracks a woman she thinks murdered her husband, and in “Theater Ship,” actors defend a planet from an alien invasion.
This science fiction collection is available from your favorite bookseller.
Men From the Horizon
Men visit Rewa’s island with monstrous automatons and promises–and the ability to help her walk normally again. They just want to farm the sugar cane fields for Rewa and her people. If one farmer agrees, everyone will agree. The decision hangs on what Rewa does. And no matter what her decision Rewa makes, it will cost her.
A science fiction short story available from your favorite booksellers.
Theater Ship
Actress Catherine Mason is old enough that Hollywood no longer wants her, so she performs theater in space for the soldiers. But it’s dangerous duty for the actors. As they land on a military post, Catherine discovers the aliens are watching. She’s about to give the performance of her life, if not her life.
A science fiction short story available from your favorite booksellers.
Spotlight on 5 Selected Links About Books
Reading isn’t just the books, but sometimes the history of them, the libraries, or even how the world used them. And sometimes it’s just wandering through the aisles looking at all of them and not knowing where to start.
7 Behind-the-Scenes Secrets of Bookstores This is a mostly fun list about bookstores. I had no idea that books from different publishers had different smells! (16).
25 Interesting Facts About Libraries Did you know that there are libraries where you can check out a storyteller? Might have to steal that for a story.
Coalesce . . . A Bookstore & More. This is a shout-out to a bookstore in Morro Bay, CA. When my family visited my grandparents, I always ended up in this little bookstore, just a few blocks from the harbor. Despite all the changes in the industry, the bookstore is still there.
Book Castle/Movie World: This bookstore in Burbank does not appear to have a website. It’s a place I would check out frequently because I could find books and scripts and photos. Just an awesome place to explore.
20 Interesting Facts About Science Fiction. This has a lot of predictions that science fiction writers made in their stories that came true…like the internet.
Blink of a Moment
The world stops for Trey Howard, like a camera rewinding and then starting up again. All he wants to is hide in his job as a janitor and pretend like he doesn’t exist, like can’t make the world blink. Then the government finds him, men who are not affected when the world blinks, and they want to talk to him…
A time travel short story available from your favorite booksellers.
Alien Traps
Thirty years ago, Lily Chun saw a UFO in the desert and the memory disappeared into a child’s fantasies. But after a dream called to her, she’s back out to the same place, drawn by the emptiness of the life she’s abandoned. A chance meeting with a stranger convinces her that maybe there’s a reason to be here now, and it isn’t just to see aliens.
A science fiction short story available from your favorite booksellers.
Story Bundles
These are story bundles that I’m featured in. If you haven’t been introduced to the world of the story bundle and you love reading, then start exploring right away. Story bundles consist of books or short stories by multiple writers, and usually for no more than $15.
Watcher Ghost
This story won an honorable mention in the Writers of the Future Contest.
Hope Delgado specializes in alien ghosts in space. But her latest mission to a space station is a challenge even for the woman who can talk to ghosts. Because this ghost isn’t able to talk to her, and he’s escalating his efforts into frightening attacks.
Hope thinks he has a warning, but she is running out of time.
A science fiction short story available from your favorite bookseller.
Science Fiction Books
After seeing Star Trek and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, I have a special love for adventuring out into space. There weren’t many women in the science fiction books I read growing up, so I have lots of women having adventures. Links to pages with blurbs coming soon.
- People creating cat traps (a box) went viral on the Internet, so I thought why not alien traps?
