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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 little novella THE RAINSEEKERS comes out Feb 17th from Tordotcom Publishing! Available at your favorite bookstore!

#therainseekers #matthewkressel #tordotcom #tordotcompublishing #scifi #mars #terraforming #terraformingmars #influencer

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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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.

#therainseekers #tordotcom #novella

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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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/
#ReacTor #TorDotCom

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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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 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/
#TorDotCom #ReacTor

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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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/
#TorDotCom #ReacTor

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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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/
#TorDotCom #ReacTor

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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Five SF Strategies for Creating More Land

Make Room! Make Room! Literally.

https://reactormag.com/five-sf-strategies-for-creating-more-land/
#TorDotCom #ReacTor

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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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/

#tordotcom #ReacTor

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 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/
#ReacTor #tordotcom

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/
#tordotcom #ReacTor

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/
#tordotcom #ReacTor

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 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/

#ReacTor #tordotcom

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 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/
#tordotcom #reactormag

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/
#tordotcom #reactormag

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/
#tordotcom #reactormag

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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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/

#tordotcom #reactormag

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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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/
#TorDotCom #Reactor

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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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
#TorDotCom #Reactor

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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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/
#TorDotCom #Reactor

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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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/
#TorDotCom #Reactor

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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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/
#TorDotCom

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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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/
#TorDotCom

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?

https://www.tor.com/2024/01/03/five-sff-stories-involving-intentional-body-modifications-and-transformations/

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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?

https://www.tor.com/2024/01/03/five-sff-stories-involving-intentional-body-modifications-and-transformations/

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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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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/
#tordotcom

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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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/
#TorDotCom

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 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/
#TorDotCom

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 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/
#TorDotCom

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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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/
#TorDotCom

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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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/
#booktodon #TorDotCom

Five Must-Read SF Books Published in 2023

Tired of debating bizarre theological scenarios with babies while the two of you plummet towards the ground? Here are five recommended SF books.

https://www.tor.com/2023/11/15/five-must-read-sf-books-published-in-2023/
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Five Must-Read SF Books Published in 2023

Tired of debating bizarre theological scenarios with babies while the two of you plummet towards the ground? Here are five recommended SF books.

https://www.tor.com/2023/11/15/five-must-read-sf-books-published-in-2023/
#TorDotCom

Five Works That Imagine Nuclear War and Its Aftermath

A hat-tip to Arkhipov for deciding not to begin WWIII back in the 1960s.

https://www.tor.com/2023/11/13/five-works-that-imagine-nuclear-war-and-its-aftermath/
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