The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide Series #1)

Faster than light travel is a science fiction staple. Like time travel and encounters with alien life, it is one of those big ideas SF was born to explore. When the relativistic speed limit does not meet their narrative needs, many authors are content to let starships flit from here to there in violation of the […]

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While I count down the hours till all my questions about the gender-bent Twilight can be answered (How closely does it track to the original? How effectively will Meyer convince us the swap doesn’t change the heart of the story? Did parents really spell it “Edythe” 100 years ago?), I’m daydreaming of other books I’m dying to see […]

Think of National Novel Writing Month as the Author Olympics: a crazy event that comes around every year and offers up a challenge that goes beyond sales numbers, advances, or any other data point used to measure success. NaNoWriMo asks a simple question: can you write a novel-length story in just one month? For years now, […]