On Tuesday, May 21st, Independent Publisher Pilum Press launched a Kickstarter for their next project, “Ursula of Lum” by author JB Jackson. The crowdfund for hopes to help pay for production expenses and offer readers a continuation of the story that began in the previous book in this new series. Pilum Press is a publisher […]
Sword & Scandal Brings [NSFW] Danger Back to Fiction!
[*WARNING: NSFW CONTENT!*] Author J. Manfred Weichsel has launched a Kickstarter for NSFW, a sword and sorcery anthology of the bizarre and the extreme. Unlike most crowdfunds, however, Weichsel is looking to solicit other writers to create a multi-author anthology of danger and daring in far-off lands. This isn’t extreme content for extreme content’s sake, […]
Cirsova Launches New Kickstarter Project of Cyberpunk Cops and Space Knights: Star Wanderers
Today, publisher Cirsova has launched a new project in conjugation with indie author JD Cowan on a new collection of stories. The project is entitled Star Wanderers, and stars an intergalactic cop and space knight as they bring peace to the galaxy. This is the first team-up between the modern magazine juggernaut and the author […]
Indie Military Fantasy Book Doomsday Recon By Ryan Williamson And Jason Anspach Blows Up On Amazon
Doomsday Recon by Ryan Williamson and Jason Anspach has made an auspicious start on Amazon. The new world of book publishing is truly among the independents, those publishing books on Amazon, serials on Substack and Royal Road, and putting projects on crowdfunding sites. It has an entire ecosystem of creators who have completely bypassed the […]
Sci-Fi Legend Harlan Ellison’s Greatest Hits Announced by J. Michael Straczynski
Television Writer J. Michael Straczynski (Spider-Man: One More Day, Babylon 5, Murder, She Wrote) has announced the contents of the upcoming HARLAN ELLISON’S GREATEST HITS, a new collection of the sci-fi story writer’s best-known pieces from his career. J. Michael Straczynski, the executor of Ellison’s estate, has pledged himself to make certain the rambunctious “Uncle […]
“Tor.com” Changes Name to “Reactor” to Avoid Association with Tor Publishing
The book publishing world has been undergoing extreme change after change over the previous few years, with big publishers constantly merging at the same time chain box stores are closing at an astonishing rate. Flooding their bookshelves with products customers refuse to buy and coated with current-year political nonsense certainly has contributed to that downfall, […]
Science Fiction Book YouTuber Fit 2b Read Caught in Pedophilia Sting
Much has been said of Science Fiction fandom’s constant relationship with child predators and sexual abusers over the years. From David Asimov, to Marion Zimmer Bradley, to Arthur C. Clarke, to Ed Kramer, and so on, the examples are numerous. Despite the repeated convictions, pedophilia remains an issue to this very day that the community […]
