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New Release / Giveaway: Blood Harvest – Meghan Schubert

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Blood Harvest - Meghan Schubert

Meghan Schubert has a new FF paranormal book out: Blood Harvest. And there’s a giveaway. If you were losing your humanity, how hard would you fight to hold on to it? What would you be willing to do, to give up, to make sure you remained the human you were, rather than the demon you seemed to be turning into? Hope McKinley, former advertising student turned newly undead, finds herself wrestling with these questions and so much more. Blood Harvest delves into the depths of the human psyche and grapples with the struggle between light and dark in all of … Read more

FOR READERS & WRITERS: Funerals in Space

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Astronaut Coffin

FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer Scott: We’re watching Mr. Big’s funeral, and it made me think of death in space. Readers, what stories have you read that dealt with burial at space? Writers, how did you deal with it? Writers: This is a reader/writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic. Chat on FacebookChat on MeWe

Darth Vader Actor Dies at 85

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David Prowse - Darth Vader

David Prowse, the British weightlifting champion and man behind the Darth Vader mask, has died. He was 85. The actor’s management company shared the news of his passing early Sunday morning on social media “with great regret and heart-wrenching sadness for us and million of fans around the world.” Prowse wore the Darth Vader costume in the original Star Wars trilogy, while James Earl Jones provided the villain’s iconic voice. At a towering 6-foot-7 tall, the actor was originally offered a choice between the role of Vader or Chewbacca. In an interview with NPR in 2008, Prowse explained why he … Read more

What Happens After the Sun Dies?

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Our sun’s death is a long way off — about 4.5 billion years, give or take — but someday it’s going to happen, and what then for our solar system? The trouble begins before the death proper: The first thing we have to contend with is the elderly sun itself. As the fusion of hydrogen continues inside the sun, the result of that reaction — helium — builds up in the core. With all the waste product hanging around, it gets harder for the sun to do its fusion dance. But the inward crushing weight of the sun’s atmosphere doesn’t … Read more

ANNOUNCEMENT/GIVEAWAY: Graham’s Rescue – Hurri Cosmo

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Graham's Rescue - Hurri Cosmo

Hurri Cosmo has a new MM paranormal romance out, The Oletti Shifters Book 2: “Graham’s Rescue.” “You’re pregnant, Graham.” Wow. Life has tossed Graham a lot of curveballs, but he never expected to hear those words. Then, just as Graham and his fated mate, Hyden, are getting used to that amazing news, someone from Graham’s past returns and kidnaps him, threatening the very future they want to build. Talk about curveballs! Graham is an Oletti, a bloodline of wolf shifters that seems to be part of an ancient prophecy, one that speaks of a hidden magical spring of water that … Read more

ASTRONOMY: Did a Supernova Trigger a Mass Extinction on Earth?

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A global extinction event around 359 million years ago may have been triggered by the death blast of a distant star, a new study suggests. Toward the end of the Devonian period (416 million to 358 million years ago), there was a mass extinction known as the Hangenberg Event; it wiped out armored fish called placoderms and killed off approximately 70% of Earth’s invertebrate species. But scientists have long puzzled over what caused the die-off. Recently, preserved plant spores offered clues about this ancient extinction. Fossil spores spanning thousands of years at the boundary of the Devonian and the Carboniferous … Read more

REVIEW: T.A.D., The Angel of Death – M.D. Neu

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T.A.D. The Angel of Death

Title: T.A.D. The Angel of Death Author: M.D. Neu Genre: Paranormal, Romance LGBTQ+ Category: MM Gay Publisher: NineStar Press Pages: 213 Reviewer: Melissa, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book Tad bounces around in time and watches mankind grow and change. He loves humanity and helping when he can. However, his job isn’t conducive to helping people—he’s an Angel of Death. Doug is a fun-loving drama queen. He’s an amazing drag queen and hairstylist with big dreams, but despite his witty exterior, he has a dark history and is prone to self-destruction. When Tad pushes the boundaries … Read more

Hackers Could Kill More People Than a Nuclear Weapon

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People around the world may be worried about nuclear tensions rising, but I think they’re missing the fact that a major cyberattack could be just as damaging — and hackers are already laying the groundwork. With the U.S. and Russia pulling out of a key nuclear weapons pact — and beginning to develop new nuclear weapons — plus Iran tensions and North Korea again test-launching missiles, the global threat to civilization is high. Some fear a new nuclear arms race. That threat is serious — but another could be as serious, and is less visible to the public. So far, … Read more

FOR READERS/WRITERS: What Happens To Our Books When We Die?

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FOR READERS & WRITERS Today’s writer topic comes from QSFer J. Scott Coatsworth: We live in an increasingly digital world. Books have always been a bit ephemeral, but they are even more so now. So writers, what will happen to your works when you are no longer here? And readers, what about all of your eBooks? Writers: This is a writer chat – you are welcome to share your own book/link, as long as it fits the chat, but please do so as part of a discussion about the topic.

SCIENCE: The Real, Freaky Experiments That Inspired “Frankenstein”

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On Jan. 17 1803, a young man named George Forster was hanged for murder at Newgate prison in London. After his execution, as often happened, his body was carried ceremoniously across the city to the Royal College of Surgeons, where it would be publicly dissected. What actually happened was rather more shocking than simple dissection though. Forster was going to be electrified. The experiments were to be carried out by the Italian natural philosopher Giovanni Aldini, the nephew of Luigi Galvani, who discovered “animal electricity” in 1780, and for whom the field of galvanism is named. With Forster on the … Read more