Ein Beitrag von Sarah Hulcy
I just finished Darwin Garrison's short story "Skipping Stones"
and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've been reading science fiction for
a number of decades so I ask: "Have there been other stories
about races between starships? Huge payoff... assuming you
survive long enough to win." Yes.
But this story contains adventure, excitement, romance, sabotage
and redemption all wrapped up together in a very nice package.
"Skipping Stones" is very-well paced, never bogs down and keeps
your interest right up to the final surprise. Oh, and it's
written in a wry, humorous voice. I recommend this story to
anyone who likes science fiction - but I refuse to call it a
"space opera" (which apparently now applies to anything with FTL
travel) because this is just a good, fun, interesting science
fiction story.
Ein Beitrag von Sarah Hulcy
This is a very well-constructed, moving short story that carries the reader from a bucolic reality to the truly terrifying world of the fae and back again.
Mirram has returned to her original human form after walking the Glimmering Path to revenge the slaughter of her entire family when she was just a child. She had become weary of revenge and wished to live a simple, human life as a baker and healer, giving up the terrible powers as the fae Lady Nightwing, releasing her hold on the crows and ravens that answered her will. But Lady Nightwing's brother and sister fae wish her to return to their realm and send their minions against her village to force her to step back on the Glimmering Path and take up her sword again.
Ein Beitrag von Sarah Hulcy
"Corruptor" by Jason Cordova is a mystery/thriller set in an interactive virtual reality construct. The most popular, multi-player game system on earth is compromised while several hundred people around the world are connected to the game by VR headsets, thus rendering them the largest group of hostages in history. The hackers/blackmailers set it up so that if anyone tries to take off a player's game gear before the blackmailers get what they want, the player dies instead of just waking up to reality as usual.
Jason Cordova has created a virtual reality game with such specificity that readers may, at first, not realize the characters they encounter are actually mentally interacting in a shared, VR universal world game. Time is a major factor because, while in the game world, players sit immobile, unable to eat or drink.
Ein Beitrag von Horst Hermann von Allwörden
Janet Morris was in the eighties and early nineties, one of the leading female writers of SF and Fantasy. But she interrupted her career as a writer for Strategic Studies and a company for non-lethal weapons.
In 2010, she returned with her novel THE SACRED BAND and now she writes again together with her husband Chris. This is reason enough for some questions
Ein Beitrag von Horst Hermann von Allwörden
Some know Tempus Thales from the »Thieves World«, some from battlefields. But who is Tempus Thales, the Riddler, who deals with gods like we does with our neighbours?
For the first time, Tempus Thales has now agreed to answer some questions. We thank his chroniclers Janet and Chris Morris for this opportunity.
Stay tuned ...
Readers ask ...
Skipping Stones 
Black Feather, Bright Heart
Corruptor
... Janet und Chris Morris ...
... Tempus Thales ...