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Leah Looks At - Looming Low: Vol. II

Leah Looks At – Looming Low: Vol. II

Looming Low: Vol. IIEdited by: Justin Steele and Max CowanPublisher: Dim Shores Publication Year: October, 2022ISBN: 9798985828214 Format: Hardcover and First Paperback editions limited to 150 hand-numbered copies. At the time of this post, I have seen that number now in question for First Paperback. An e-book version is promised to arrive, but timing remains uncertain.The award-winning anthology…

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My Favorite Bit: Alvaro Zinos-Amaro talks about EQUIMEDIAN

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro is joining us today to talk about his novel, Equimedian. Here’s the publisher’s description: Jason Velez lives a mundane existence installing EmuX virtual reality machines-scraping together just enough money to pay for his increasingly unsustainable science fiction collection-when he begins having strange dreams. He knows he has to make some personal changes if he hopes to get…

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The Big Idea: Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Some writers have a “thing” – a niche, a trick, or a trope that they make their own. And then some other writers… wander. In this Big Idea for Being Michael Swanwick, a non-fiction exploration into the life and works of the multiple-award-winning author, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro explains how Swanwick’s thematic diversity is, indeed, his thing. ALVARO ZINOS-AMARO: Life is like a box of Michael…

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The Big Idea: Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Some writers have a “thing” – a niche, a trick, or a trope that they make their own. And then some other writers… wander. In this Big Idea for Being Michael Swanwick, a non-fiction exploration into the life and works of the multiple-award-winning author, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro explains how Swanwick’s thematic diversity is, indeed, his thing. ALVARO ZINOS-AMARO: Life is like a box of Michael…

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Peter Watts’ fast-paced THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION is one of the year’s best science fiction odysseys

Peter Watts’ incredible THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION delivers.

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro at ORSON SCOTT CARD’S INTERGALACTIC MEDICINE SHOW praises the book.

Naturally, this invites all sorts of irresistible questions, some of which the jacket copy wisely asks: What prompts the human uprising? How do you mount a revolution against an intelligence orders of magnitude more advanced than you, which controls your environment, requires no sleep, and has all available resources at its command? How do you achieve secrecy when you’re under constant surveillance, and how do you meaningfully make plans with others when the intervals during which you’re awake and suspended are outside your ability to regulate? All this and more, answered in under two hundred pages!

Watts’s storytelling approach is minimalist. He keeps his sentences short and punchy, his exposition to the bare minimum. Certain ideas only become fully elucidated after the fact. All of this works to the narrative’s benefit, conveying in prose something akin to the ceaseless forward momentum experienced by Eri’s crew. That’s not to say that Watts avoids description. Indeed, he excels at a kind of hard-edged, chilly descriptive prose that makes as much use of scientific concepts as it does naturalistic imagery. Consider for example: “The hatch closed at our backs, swallowing us in brief darkness; it brightened to dim twilight as our eyes adjusted to analuciferin constellations glowing on all sides.” Or: “I’d hike to the caverns during down time, watch him dance as the forest went in: theorems and fractal symphonies playing out against fissured basalt, against a mist of mycelia, against proliferating vine-tangles of photosynthetic pods so good at sucking up photons that even under light designed to mimic the sun, they presented nothing but black silhouettes.”

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In his novel Tau Zero (1970), Poul Anderson gave us the starship Leonora Christine, which through an accident to its Bussard ramscoop engines suffers a constant acceleration of one g, subjecting its crew to an increasingly vertiginous temporal dilation in which millions of years end up passing in seconds, all the way to the contraction of the Universe itself. Frederik Pohl and Jack Williamson’s The Singers of Time (1991) likewise presents an extreme relativistic scenario. THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION operates in similar “high concept” ground, but it’s undeniably the best of this breed, presenting engaging, believably flawed characters with complex interrelationships (and I certainly count Chimp among them) and a surprise ending that still manages to feel consistent with what has come before. Watts is an original thinker and a bold storyteller, here at the top of his considerable form. This is one of the year’s best science fiction odysseys.

For BOOKLIST, Regina Schroeder likes the work.

Told in a perfectly human voice—someone who questions and shifts his or her stand on things, who has unusual friendships and clings to small details—this is a genuinely pleasing story. Although it certainly could sustain greater length, the latest from Watts (Blindsight, 2006) packs a significant punch into a small package.

THE BOOK LOVER’S BOUDOIR enjoys their first Peter Watts experience.

This is my first time reading the author. I only occasionally read science fiction. I really enjoyed this novella. I felt like I was missing bits of the story though and apparently, I was as this is part of a series. I will likely read the other novellas to get the full story. I enjoyed the way the story develops as Sunday and her fellow conspirators work towards a seemingly impossible task. This short little book raises a hell of a lot of questions. How can you plan to take out an enemy when you’re awake for such a short time? How can you get the better of something but it’s very nature is or should be way smarter than you, something that can read and understand every thought in your head? Excellent little piece of writing.

Tom Mayer for MOUNTAIN TIMES reviews THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION.

Watts writes that particular brand of science fiction so smart that all but the best and brightest among us should have trouble tracking — but it is the author’s talent for storytelling that mutinous scenarios such as those that occur during a never-ending, 60-million-year (and counting) “gate-building” mission to the end of the universe make sense.

They make sense because Watts infuses his fiction not only with science, but with the human element. If you were “thawed” only once per several thousand years to add humanity and non-digital insights to the computer “Chimp,” an AI rivaling the best and worst of Hal, how far would your trust extend in the endgame being in your best interest?

While Watts’ plot is reminiscent of some of Asimov’s best short detective stories — the author maintains, despite industry standards, that “Freeze-Frame Revolution” is a novella — he makes this one his own by advancing the technology and intrigue in a fast-paced read that will linger long after the last byte is consumed.

IT STARTS AT MIDNIGHT wants more. And thankfully there is.

And now, I will tell you why I loved it! First, the concept is incredible, and the book delivers. It’s hard to even wrap one’s head around the thought of being alive in space for millions of years, really. But in a good way, because it’s so very thought provoking. It made me think about time in a whole new way, and of course had me questioning whether I could ever do the things that Sunday’s had to do.

In addition, it’s full of action and adventure, and contains a lot of really diverse and well fleshed out characters. The fact that this comes in at under 200 pages makes it an even more impressive feat, since I genuinely cared about the fates of not just the main character, but side characters as well. And, thanks to The Captain’s review, I found out that there are more stories set in this world! Of which I shall be devouring immediately, obviously. The only problem I’d had really is that I wanted more of this world and well… problem solved!

Bottom Line: If you love a sci-fi that makes you really think, but is also full of action, this is one you won’t want to miss!

For more info on THE FREEZE-FRAME REVOLUTION, visit the Tachyon page.

Cover and design by Elizabeth Story

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The Ripper is You by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

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Title: The Ripper is You Author: Alvaro Zinos-Amaro In: The Mammoth Book of Jack the Ripper Stories (Maxim Jakubowski) Rating Out of 5: 3 (On the fence about this one) My Bookshelves: Crime, Mental health Dates read: 26th December 2019 Pace: Slow Format: Short story Publisher: Robinson Year: 2015 5th sentence, 74th page: Polly appears at 2.22 a.m., right on schedule, and clearly the worse for wear.

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Congratulations to the Hugo finalists for Best Related Work. I have an abiding weakness for good books about books and writing. 

Check out the full list of Hugo finalists here. 

#Hugo Awards #Neil Gaiman #Carrie Fisher #Kameron Hurley #Ursula K. LeGuin #Robert Silverberg #Alvaro Zinos-Amaro #The View From the Cheap Seats #Words Are My Matter #The Geek Feminist Revoltuion #The Princess Diarist #Traveler of Worlds #awards

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He thinks about Holmes. Moriarty remembers imagining, a long time ago, that Holmes might take up some solitary profession, like beekeeper. He might retire from the business of being a London consulting detective and move to the Sussex Downs. Is that where he is, then? Is that what he’s doing? Yes; the bees. Maybe Moriarty’s adversary had found a way to teach them to follow his commands. Perhaps he instructed the bees to find Moriarty, to relay a message to him. If so, what was it?

“As Falls Reichenbach, So Falls Reichenbach Falls” by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

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It Came from the Multiplex: 80s Midnight Chillers, edited by Joshua Viola, Hex Publishers, 2020. Cover art by AJ Nazzaro, info: hexpublishers.com.

Welcome to tonight’s feature presentation, brought to you by an unholy alliance of our spellcasters at Hex Publishers and movie-mages at the Colorado Festival of Horror. Please be advised that all emergency exits have been locked for this special nostalgia-curdled premiere of death. From crinkling celluloid to ferocious flesh—from the silver screen to your hammering heart—behold as a swarm of werewolves, serial killers, Satanists, Elder Gods, aliens, ghosts, and unclassifiable monsters are loosed upon your auditorium. Relax, and allow our ushers to help with your buckets of popcorn—and blood; your ticket stubs—and severed limbs; your comfort candy—and body bags. Kick back and scream as you settle into a fate worse than Hell. Tonight’s director’s cut is guaranteed to slash you apart.

Contents: Foreword by Bret and Jeanni Smith Introduction by Paul Campion Alien Parasites From Outer Space by Warren Hammond Return of the Alien Parasites From Outer Space by Angie Hodapp Negative Creep by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro Helluloid by Dayton Ward and Kevin Dilmore Rise, Ye Vermin! by Betty Rocksteady The Cronenberg Concerto by Keith Ferrell Creature Feature by Gary Jonas Invisible by Mario Acevedo Screen Haunt by Orrin Grey The Devil’s Reel by Sean Eads and Joshua Viola On the Rocks by K. Nicole Davis Coming Attractions by Stephen Graham Jones Late Sleepers by Steve Rasnic Tem Special Makeup by Kevin J. Anderson

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18 Wheels of Science Fiction: A Long Haul into the Fantastic Genre: Science Fiction Anthology

with Stories by Eric Miller, editor, John DeChancie, Del Howison, Bond Elam, Lisa Morton, Paul Carlson, Janet Joyce Holden, Michael Bailey, Carla Robinson, Jeff Seeman, Kate Jonez, Gary Phillips, Lucio Rodriguez, Terry Bisson, Eric Miller, Edward M. Erdelac, Michael Paul Gonzalez, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro, Sean Patrick Traver “…Definitely fun.” –Analog Science Fiction and Fact Take a trip…

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Traveler of Worlds by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro is full of congenial discussion, says Doug (@bagatsen)

The important information on this book’s cover is the subtitle, Conversations with Robert Silverberg. Traveler of Worlds is entirely a set of interviews with Silverberg, who recently passed 80 years of age. He’s one of the grand old men of science fiction; he has attended every Hugo award ceremony; he was incredibly prolific back in the day; and he is now very firmly retired. Over the course of a…

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SEASONS BETWEEN US

Through soft and hard science fiction, magical realism, folklore, horror, high fantasy, and alternate history, the 20 stories and two poems tackle aging, loss, change, and adaptation. Like the authors and characters, the settings are diverse: Japan, Singapore, India, Tanzania, Wales, Canada, and the U.S. Most stories portray the middle-aged or elderly in conflict with young adults or simply themselves at an earlier age. In C.J. Cheung’s spare, evocative “Clear Waters,” an elderly man, shaped by loss, feels betrayed when his daughter partners with an android. In Alvaro Zinos-Amaro’s ironic “Sympathétique,” a young man uses his future self to smooth his path and shape his life. A desperate father places his family’s survival in the hands of his teen children in Tyler Keevil’s apocalyptic “Summer of Our Discontent.” In Maria Haskins’ haunting “When Resin Burns to Tar,” a woman struggles to free herself from her dominating, deceased mother. Despite the quality of the writing, this anthology’s guiding motif is too amorphous and general for overall thematic cohesion. While authors’ “notes to my younger self” follow each story, offering various tidbits of life advice, few of the stories center on young adults’ concerns.

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My Favorite Bit: Alvaro Zinos-Amaro talks about BEING MICHAEL SWANICK

Alvaro Zinos-Amaro is joining us today to talk about his novel, Being Michael Swanick. Here’s the publisher’s description: In 2001, Michael Swanwick published the book-length interview Being Gardner Dozois. Now Swanwick himself becomes the subject of inquiry. During a year of conversations, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro (Traveler of Worlds: Conversations with Robert Silverberg) set about discussing with…

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It came from the multiplex by a hosts of different authors 3 star

This short story collection was a hit and miss for me. I wished some of the stories were a lot longer and some I wished were a lot shorter. I was introduced to a few new author's that I'm looking forward to reading more from. Here is a list of the stories I enjoyed the most:

Negative Creep by Alvaro Zinos-Amaro

Helluloid by Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore

Creature Feature by Gary Jonas

The Devil's Reel by Sean Eads & Joshua Viola

On The Rocks By K. Nicole Davis

Coming Attractions By Stephen Graham Jones

I have given all of the above short stories 4 stars

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The fourth issue of our Imaginary Papers newsletter, featuring Alvaro Zinos-Amaro writing about Strange Days at its 25th anniversary, Katherine Buse writing about SimEarth, and a feature on the astrobiology science fiction anthology Strangest of All. To receive future issues, subscribe here.

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What a great turnout at the Nebulas! Did everybody have fun? Swipe for piiiics! 1: Jacob Weisman, James Patrick Kelly, Eileen Gunn, Alvaro Zinos-Amaro 2: Sam J. Miller 3: David Levine and Ellen Klages 4: Cory Doctorow 5: Suzy Charnas and Eileen Gunn 6: Lettie Prell 7: Sarah Pinsker 8: Rebecca Roanhorse 9: Kelly Robson #nebula2019 #nebulas2019 #sfwa #nebulaconference #nebulaawards #jamespatrickkelly #eileengunn #alvarozinosamaro #jacobweisman #eileengunn #corydoctorow #samjmiller #davidlevine #ellenklages #suzycharnas #suzymckeecharnas #lettieprell #sarahpinsker #rebeccaroanhorse #kellyrobson #authors #authorsigning #authorsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/BxsecBEHQ33/?igshid=f8salzunp3jt

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