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Five Classic SFF Covers Featuring Potential Health and Safety Issues
What is going on with that armour? And why are there no safety rails in the future???
https://reactormag.com/five-classic-sff-covers-featuring-potential-health-and-safety-issues/
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My little novella THE RAINSEEKERS comes out Feb 17th from Tordotcom Publishing! Available at your favorite bookstore!
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My advanced review copies of my forthcoming novella, The Rainseekers, just arrived! They are beautiful! It's coming in February from Tordotcom, and you can preorder now.
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Five SF Novels That Dabble in Environmental Determinism
From the Moon to undersea cities, these SF settings shape societies (and drive the plot).
https://reactormag.com/five-sf-novels-that-dabble-in-environmental-determinism/
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A Brief Guide to the Fiction of Vernor Vinge
From Grimm's World to Rainbows End, the fiction of Vernor Vinge.
https://reactormag.com/a-brief-guide-to-the-fiction-of-vernor-vinge/
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Five SF Stories Featuring Unsuccessful Attempts at Space Colonization
What wondrous discoveries await the pioneers of tomorrow? In many cases, final ones.
https://reactormag.com/five-sf-stories-featuring-unsuccessful-attempts-at-space-colonization/
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Five Works of Old-School Romantasy
Astonishing revelation overturns known history: women wrote SFF long before 2023.
https://reactormag.com/five-works-of-old-school-romantasy/
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Ten Classic Books I Read as a Teen That Still Hold Up
Sometimes older books are visited by the Suck Fairy--but not all! Here are ten that stand the test of time.
https://reactormag.com/ten-classic-books-i-read-as-a-teen-that-still-hold-up/
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Five SF Strategies for Creating More Land
Make Room! Make Room! Literally.
https://reactormag.com/five-sf-strategies-for-creating-more-land/
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Never Mind the Torment Nexus, Here’s Five SF Ideas I’d Like to See in Reality
Hey, tech billionaires—if you want to steal ideas from science fiction, start with these...
https://reactormag.com/never-mind-the-torment-nexus-heres-five-sf-ideas-id-like-to-see-in-reality/
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Five SFF Books About Healers and Medicine
From space hospitals to magical amulets, from science to blood sorcery, the healers, doctors, nurses, and medics of speculative fiction.
https://reactormag.com/five-sff-books-about-healers-and-medicine/
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Five SFF Books About the Dangers of Dabbling in Archaeology
Poking around in the relics of long-dead civilizations is a great way to meet your doom.
https://reactormag.com/five-sff-books-about-the-dangers-of-dabbling-in-archaeology/
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Five Exciting Careers for the End of the World
The world ended but you still need a job! Here are five!
https://reactormag.com/five-exciting-careers-for-the-end-of-the-world/
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Five SFF Works That Explore the (Sometimes Perilous) Power of Libraries
Knowledge is power, and with great power comes... well, you know.
https://reactormag.com/five-sff-works-that-explore-the-sometimes-perilous-power-of-libraries/
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Five Ways Authors Motivate Characters to Leave Earth Behind
How to attract workers to toxic, nearly airless, radiation-bombarded Mars, hellish Venus, or even the bone-eroding microgravity of the asteroids when there’s a perfectly habitable planet available?
https://reactormag.com/five-ways-authors-motivate-characters-to-leave-earth-behind/
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The Golden Age of SF (But Not the One You’re Thinking Of)
What were you reading when you were 12?
https://reactormag.com/the-golden-age-of-sf-but-not-the-one-youre-thinking-of/
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Five SFF Works Featuring Noble Lies and Useful Prevarications
"Telling the truth can be dangerous business/honest and popular don't go hand in hand" so why not lie?
https://reactormag.com/five-sff-works-featuring-noble-lies-and-useful-prevarications/
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Speculative Extrapolation: Five SF Visions of the Future, According to Math
Predicting the future is as easy as extending short term trends.
https://www.tor.com/2024/01/22/speculative-extrapolation-five-sf-visions-of-the-future-according-to-math
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Five SF Stories Involving Memory Manipulation
Memories: inherently unreliable or subject to alteration according to need?
https://www.tor.com/2024/01/19/five-sf-stories-involving-memory-manipulation/
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Incompetence Is Inevitable: Five Books That Illustrate the Peter Principle
Five stories in which competence is tested by going beyond its limits.
https://www.tor.com/2024/01/17/incompetence-is-inevitable-five-books-that-illustrate-the-peter-principle/
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Five Strategies for Taming an Unruly TBR List
How to select _the_ next book from all the possible next books.
https://www.tor.com/2024/01/10/five-strategies-for-taming-an-unruly-tbr-list/
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Fake Candidates, Invented Enemies: Five Fraudulent Personas in Classic SF
Need a very specific person who does not actually exist? No worries! Simply invent them!
https://www.tor.com/2024/01/08/fake-candidates-invented-enemies-five-fraudulent-personas-in-classic-sf/
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Five SFF Stories Involving Intentional Body Modifications and Transformations
The other side of the coin from yesterday: what if you could choose radical body modification?
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Five SF Stories Featuring Externally Mandated Body Modifications
Following the path Procrustes trail-blazed.
https://www.tor.com/2024/01/02/five-sf-stories-featuring-externally-mandated-body-modifications/
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Where To Start With the Work of David Drake
New to the works of the late David Drake? Here are five works to consider.
https://www.tor.com/2023/12/13/where-to-start-with-the-work-of-david-drake/
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Five Books Featuring Closed Boundaries and Hermit Kingdoms
“Local shops for local people": no longer a slogan for just Royston Vasey.
https://www.tor.com/2023/12/12/five-books-featuring-closed-boundaries-and-hermit-kingdoms/
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Five Books That Imagine the Future of Canada
Canada! J. G. Ballard loved it while Bob Shaw loathed it. What have others authors made of the cosmologically insignificant time remaining to that obscure nation?
https://www.tor.com/2023/12/04/five-books-that-imagine-the-future-of-canada/
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Five Books Featuring Sudden, Unexpected Calamities That Change Everything
The problem with being a protagonist is that many readers do not want to read about uneventful days.
https://www.tor.com/2023/11/29/five-books-featuring-sudden-unexpected-calamities-that-change-everything/
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Adventures in Impractical SF: Five Stories Featuring Space Travel Using Constant Acceleration
No, _you're_ the person compelled to find excuses to reference Bussard Ramjets and other dubious examples of stupendous propulsion.
https://www.tor.com/2023/11/17/adventures-in-impractical-sf-five-stories-featuring-space-travel-using-constant-acceleration/
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