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Book Review: MJ-12: Endgame by Mike Martinez

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The MJ-12 series (MJ-12 Inception, MJ-12: Shadows) comes to a successful conclusion in Mike Martinez’s MJ-12 Endgame, where a plot by Lavrentiy Beria to take control of the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death will help decide the fate of Variants across the world. MJ-12: Endgame does not waste any time in dropping us into the world of Mike Martinez’s MJ-12 ‘verse, an alternate world where people given superpowers by two mysterious vortexes at the end of the second World War are recruited into the intelligence agencies of the USA and the USSR to covertly thwart the plots and plans of the other side.

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Signal Boost #41 — Tansy Rayner Roberts (ed. Mother of Invention) & Sam Hawke (City of Lies)

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https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SandFSignalBoost41RobertsHawke/Sandf–SignalBoost41–RobertsHawke.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSIn today’s episode of Signal Boost, Elizabeth talks to Dr. Tansy Rayner Roberts, writer and editor extraordinaire, about 12th Planet Press’s robot creation anthology, Mother of Invention, which Tansy co-edited with Rivqa Rafael! The two discuss a bit of Tansy’s experience as an editor, how much she enjoyed going through the Kickstarter progress, what the anthology is about and how they gathered the stories (including one by Elizabeth! Yay Elizabeth!), and much more! Elizabeth stays down-under with an interview with Sam Hawke about her debut novel, City of Lies! They discuss how Sam’s love of food inspired a central premise of the story, what made her decide to focus on a sibling relationship and how that relationship was complicated by the physical limitations of one of them, the myth that women don’t write epic fantasy, and more! We hope you enjoy the episode!

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At the Movies #70 — The Meg (2018)

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https://media.blubrry.com/skiffyandfanty/dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/archive.org/download/SandFAtTheMovies70TheMeg/Sandf-AtTheMovies70-TheMeg.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Android | iHeartRadio | Podchaser | Podcast Index | Email | TuneIn | Deezer | RSSHamster balls, giant squid, and Jason Statham’s biceps, oh my! Join Jen, Alex, and David as they discuss the summer blockbuster hit and totally Jason Statham-y film, The Meg! While some people might hate fun, we certainly don’t. With our happy hats on, we explore The Meg‘s fulfilled promises, its subversion of popcorn action film expectations, the way it references Jaws, and so much more! Bring your swimsuits and your shark cage for this dive into the giant jaws of The Meg! We hope you enjoy the episode!

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Short Fiction Review: August 2018

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Over the past several months, I’ve been using this column to spotlight my favorite new short stories. In particular, I’ve been attempting to spotlight work by new writers and/or writers with marginal identities. This month, I’m going to try something slightly different. Rather than spotlight short stories, I’m going to spotlight publications. Why? I was able to read a lot of short fiction over the last month, and there’s a lot of good work that deserves attention. In particular, this last month, most of my favorite stories appeared in these three publications: Nightmare Magazine (for the horror addicts), Anathema: Spec from the Margins (for those of you who love superb worldbuilding), and Broken Metropolis: Queer Tales of a City That Never Was, a new anthology of queer urban fantasy.

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Book Review: HEARTS OF TABAT by Cat Rambo

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Cat Rambo’s name should be a familiar one to any SF and Fantasy fans reading short fiction. Beyond publishing fiction in numerous premier outlets she also co-edited Fantasy Magazine (until its merger with Lightspeed) and served as President of the Science Fiction Writers of America. For me, Rambo’s stories fell into that category where I’d come across her name in a table of contents with pleased familiarity, but not that excited anticipation of a story that I would all but be guaranteed to love. Though always admiring her talented writing, I tend to connect with, and appreciate, her stories through a spectrum that runs from adoration to unaffected.

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Book Review: Daughters of Forgotten Light by Sean Grigsby

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Sean Grigsby’s Daughters of Forgotten Light uses a ’70s movie sensibility for the story of a women’s prison in SPAAACE and the story of their struggle to survive and escape their fate. On a distant planet reached by a wormhole, a colony has been turned into one for unsocial women. Unsocial men are easy to handle—put them into the army and have them fight for the dwindling resources and living space on a world that has tipped decisively into a rapid onset Ice Age. But unsocial women? Well, they aren’t suitable for the army, or so the United Continent of North America thinks, and so to reduce the excess population of such undesirables, they are sent off to the colony. Every so often, food ships send food to the colony.

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