I'm so pleased at my progress with a new short story. I even think I know how it will end, and I rarely know that until I get there. Originally, I called it "Blood God," but I've decided "The Return Visit" works better. #AmWriting #Horror #ReligiousHorror

If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html #freeread #shortstory #funny #pleaseboost

If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html #freeread #shortstory #funny #pleaseboost

We’re excited to welcome back Derek Tyler Attico, acclaimed author of "The Autobiography of Benjamin Sisko" to Trek Long Island!
If you are an author yourself, you don't miss his panel on the Fundamentals of Storytelling.
treklongisland.com
#StarTrek #AuthorsRule #longislandny #books #sciencefiction

Fresh on my #blog — "This is my genre: Fantasy" which is my contribution to a series of articles on book genres by @alexandra and @joel
#wwwWednesday #books #bookstodon #BookCommunity #fantasy #sff #GenreFiction #BloggingChallenge
thomasrigby.com/posts/this-is-my-genre-fantasy/

Spring-o-ween is here!Time to SPRING into HORROR with the books of MT Hart!
#nobubblegumvampiresallowed
The Mortal Series and other MT Hart Books!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P7LXHFZ
Libros de espanol!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FTWBQSFH
#ホラー #吸血鬼
#horror #vampire

Swing Follies: Spring Steampunk Pre-Order!
Swing Follies continues the Steampunk workplace-romance-with-a-rom-com-vibe series as confident hearts melt into befuddlement in the face of unexpected romantic challenges.
https://reginakammer.com/swing-follies-spring-steampunk-pre-order/
#EroticRomance #LGBTQIA #OckhamSteam-WorksLaboratoryChronicles #Preorder #Promotion #Queer #ShortStories #Steampunk #VictorianEroticRomance

Big Picture Science for Mar. 16, 2026: Skeptic Check: Project Hail Mary

As protagonist Ryland Grace fights to save Earth - and possibly the universe - in Project Hail Mary, author Andy Weir discusses the science behind his sci-fi story and what it’s like to see it adapted for the big screen. From a diversity of aliens thriving in extreme environments, to our sun’s shortening lifespan, to the conundrum of keeping astronauts alive during intergalactic missions, we consider the possibility of science fiction becoming future reality. A NASA astrobiologist who consulted on the book weighs in on how Earthly creatures have inspired some of our favorite science fiction aliens. Plus, science fiction author Becky Chambers discusses how she balances science fact with fiction in her work.

Guests:

* Andy Weir – science fiction writer, author of Project Hail Mary, The Martian, and Artemis
* Andy Fraknoi – professor of astronomy at the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco
* Becky Chambers – science fiction writer, author of To Be Taught if Fortunate, the Wayfinders series, and the Monk and Robot novellas
* Shawn Domagal-Goldman – NASA acting director, astrophysics division

Download podcast at - https://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/skeptic-check-project-hail-mary

You can listen to this and other episodes at http://bigpicturescience.org/

Get early access to ad-free versions of every episode by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support!

#ProjectHailMary #ScienceFiction #BigPictureScience #SETI #News #Podcast #Science

If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html #freeread #shortstory #funny #pleaseboost

Hey #Romance and #RomanceLandia bloggers, share your Romance book blogs with me. I'm not looking for reviews exactly, something similar to https://lovelyaudiobooks.info/blog/ and I already know about @herhandsmyhands blog and I love it, but I am looking for more book roundups than book reviews these days.

Are you a Kobo Plus reader? How do you find your next book?

Do you use Highlights pages such as this one?
https://bf.sophiemaddon.com/mar-apr-koboplushighlights/ojlydb8j0o

25 books, various genres and authors, check it out (PS: my light sci-fi mystery YA novel is on KoboPlus!)

#Books #KoboPlus #Kobo #SciFi #scifibooks #mystery #mysterybooks

If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html #freeread #shortstory #funny #pleaseboost

If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html #freeread #shortstory #funny #pleaseboost

If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html #freeread #shortstory #funny #pleaseboost

Excited to discover season 2 of the live action One Piece is out. Rewatched the last episode of season 1 to get my head back in the game, and now I'm watching the new ones as my body recovers from the punishing I gave it moshing to Supergroove at Homegrown (review forthcoming).

I remember enjoying the first season of One Piece, but this is a fantastic series. Literally brings tears to my eyes it's so good.

(1/2)

#TV #fantasy #OnePiece

​In about 30 years, it’ll be released—featuring an Indiana Jones fully reconstructed from 40 terabytes of archival footage.

​The plot is peak recursion: an AI generates code for Harrison Ford's digital twin to battle a rogue algorithm in virtual pixelated jungles. Pure digital cyberpunk wrapped in a "cassette futurism" and Cold War aesthetic:
​"Soviet scientists in a secret bunker under Magadan accidentally awakened an ancient Sumerian algorithm trapped within copper circuits. This proto-AI doesn't just want to conquer the world, it wants to rewrite history by purging everything chaotic and illogical... namely, the USSR."

​In the end, Indiana defeats the virus by simply pulling the plug. A digital silence falls over the world, while the 2056 audience pays for their tickets in crypto-yuan, fully aware that the film itself was created by the very AI the hero was fighting on screen.

#futureofcinema #GenerativeAI #SciFi #Cyberpunk #CassetteFuturism #RetroFuturism #DigitalTwin #DeadInternetTheory #Recursion #Dystopia #TechNoir #ColdWarAesthetic

If you follow me, you have a sense of humour. If you're reading this, you're a reader. I’ve put this story online, free, gratis and for nothing, it's a twelve minute read. If you like it, maybe you’ll be curious enough to risk 99p for one of my short story collections. Maybe you’ll be smart enough to save some money by buying a compilation. Maybe you’ll be brave enough to buy my novel. Whatever happens, I hope you enjoy ‘Vincent'. http://aarondavid.co.uk/Vincent.html #freeread #shortstory #funny #pleaseboost