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Foundation is “Preparing to Live” and deviates from the books a lot

Posted on September 28, 2021 by Cora

I’m still not sure, if this will be an ongoing series of episode by episode reviews, but I did watch the second episode of Foundation on this shit show of an election night. Reviews of previous episodes (well, just one … Continue reading →

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Eternia Revisited – Some Reflections on Masters of the Universe: Revelation

Posted on August 4, 2021 by Cora

Like everybody who was a kid in the early 1980s and had access to US cartoons, I watched the original He-Man and the Masters of the Universe series. Though I was lucky, because the “access to US cartoons” part was … Continue reading →

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First Monday Free Fiction: Blasters of Forever

Posted on August 3, 2021 by Cora

Welcome to the August 2021 edition of First Monday Free Fiction. To recap, inspired by Kristine Kathryn Rusch who posts a free short story every week on her blog, I’ll post a free story on the first Monday of every … Continue reading →

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The 2021 July Short Story Challenge – Day by Day

Posted on July 4, 2021 by Cora

For starters, Smashwords is currently having its annual summer sale, where you can get plenty of e-books at reduced prices or for free, including several of mine. In other news, blogging will be light this month and the remaining two … Continue reading →

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A Trio of Spooky New Releases and Why I Cannot Write Straight Horror

Posted on October 29, 2020 by Cora

I mentioned that there would be one more new release announcement for October and here it is. It’s somewhat incomplete, because the links to Barnes & Noble are missing, since the bookseller recently suffered a cyberattack and still hasn’t managed … Continue reading →

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The Joy of Writing, How to Lose It and How to Get It Back

Posted on April 29, 2019 by Cora

First of all, I’d like to share a couple of promotions, because who doesn’t love free or cheap books? The first of those promotion is the Mirth & Mischief sale at Double-Cross Lit, where you can get fifteen e-books, including … Continue reading →

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In Memoriam Václav Vorlíček

Posted on February 7, 2019 by Cora

Czech film director Václav Vorlíček died today aged 88. You may never have heard Václav Vorlíček’s name until today, but if you were a kid in Eastern and/or Western Europe in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, you have almost certainly … Continue reading →

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Star Trek Discovery suddenly remembers that season 1 existed with “Point of Light”

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Cora

“Point of Light”, the latest episode of Star Trek Discovery, aired on Thursday (if you can call “running on a streaming service” airing). For my comments on previous episodes of Star Trek Discovery, go here. “Point of Light” feels more … Continue reading →

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Science Fiction Is Dying Again – The Hopepunk Edition

Posted on January 17, 2019 by Cora

Science fiction sure dies a lot. It’s been regularly dying every year or so ever since it emerged as a separate genre (here is a recent example courtesy of Chinese science fiction author Liu Cixin in Der Spiegel) and yet … Continue reading →

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In Memoriam Dieter Thomas Heck

Posted on August 25, 2018 by Cora

German TV personality and actor Dieter Thomas Heck died today aged 80. Here is a video obituary with many clips, courtesy of ZDF. Unfortunately, there is no English language obituary anywhere (honestly, Deutsche Welle, that’s your job), so I had … Continue reading →

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