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Tag Archives: Alfred and Bertha’s Marvellous Twenty-First Century Life
Magic under the Mistletoe 2023 – A Round-up of the Best Indie Holiday Speculative Fiction
Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Therefore, we now offer you a round-up of our favourite holiday science fiction, fantasy and horror by indie authors. These … Continue reading
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Magic under the Mistletoe 2022 – A Round-up of the Best Indie Holiday Speculative Fiction
Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Therefore, we now offer you a round-up of our favourite holiday science fiction, fantasy and horror by indie authors. These … Continue reading
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Tagged A Year on Iago Prime, Alfred and Bertha's Marvellous Twenty-First Century Life, alien invasion, artificial intelligence, cozy fantasy, Demons, dragons, epic fantasy, fairies, fairytales, fantasy romance, ghosts, Hallowind Cove, historical horror, holiday mystery, horror, LGBT, LitRPG, mundane science fiction, other people's books, our books, paranormal mystery, paranormal romance, post-apocalyptic SF, robots, science fiction romance, shifters, space colonisation, space opera, steampunk, telepaths, time travel, urban fantasy, vampires, werewolves, witches, Witchfinders, YA fantasy
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The 2022 July Short Story Challenge – Day by Day
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, because I’m currently doing … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred and Bertha's Marvellous Twenty-First Century Life, assassin, cosmic horror, cozy fantasy, crime fiction, Culinary Assassin, dark fantasy, fairy tales, fantasy, historical fantasy, horror, July short story challenge, kaiju, Kurval, LGBTQ, mermaids, post-apocalyptic, robots, science fiction, sword and planet, sword and sorcery, werewolves, writing challenges
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Magic under the Mistletoe 2020 – A Round-up of the Best Indie Holiday Speculative Fiction
Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Therefore, we now offer you a round-up of our favourite holiday science fiction, fantasy and horror by indie authors. These … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred and Bertha's Marvellous Twenty-First Century Life, alien invasion, artificial intelligence, cozy fantasy, Demons, dragons, epic fantasy, fairies, fairytales, fantasy romance, ghosts, Hallowind Cove, holiday mystery, horror, LGBT, LitRPG, mundane science fiction, other people's books, our books, paranormal mystery, paranormal romance, post-apocalyptic SF, robots, science fiction romance, shifters, space colonisation, space opera, steampunk, telepaths, time travel, urban fantasy, vampires, werewolves, witches, YA fantasy
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First Monday Free Fiction: The Four and a Half Minute Boiled Egg
Welcome to the April 2020 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 every first Monday of the … Continue reading
Magic under the Mistletoe 2019 – A Round-up of the Best Indie Holiday Speculative Fiction
Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Therefore, we now offer you a round-up of our favourite holiday science fiction, fantasy and horror by indie authors. These … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Speculative Fiction of the Month
Tagged Alfred and Bertha's Marvellous Twenty-First Century Life, alien invasion, artificial intelligence, cozy fantasy, Demons, dragons, epic fantasy, fairies, fairytales, fantasy romance, ghosts, Hallowind Cove, holiday mystery, horror, LGBT, mundane science fiction, other people's books, our books, paranormal mystery, paranormal romance, post-apocalyptic SF, robots, science fiction romance, space colonisation, space opera, steampunk, telepaths, time travel, urban fantasy, werewolves, witches, YA fantasy
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Magic under the Mistletoe 2018 – A Round-up of the Best Indie Holiday Speculative Fiction
Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Therefore, we now offer you a round-up of our favourite holiday science fiction, fantasy and horror by indie authors. These … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred and Bertha's Marvellous Twenty-First Century Life, alien invasion, artificial intelligence, Demons, dragons, epic fantasy, fairies, fairytales, fantasy romance, ghosts, Hallowind Cove, holiday mystery, indie speculative fiction of the month, LGBT, mundane science fiction, my books, other people's books, paranormal mystery, paranormal romance, post-apocalyptic SF, robots, science fiction romance, space colonisation, space opera, telepaths, time travel, urban fantasy, werewolves, witches, YA fantasy
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In Defence of Wallpaper Science Fiction
A few days ago, Paul Weimer pointed me on Twitter to this post by Charles Stross in which Stross laments the current state of the science fiction genre, because a lot of SF writers these days focus more on plot, … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred and Bertha's Marvellous Twenty-First Century Life, Altered Carbon, cyberpunk, fandom wank, Flash Gordon, gender, genre wank, hard science fiction, In Love and War, LGBT, military science fiction, science fiction, science fiction mystery, science fiction romance, space opera, Star Trek, Star Trek Discovery, Terra Ignota, worldbuilding
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Magic under the Mistletoe – A Round-up of the Best Indie Holiday Speculative Fiction
Our monthly round-ups of new speculative fiction and new crime fiction releases by indie authors are a perennially popular feature. Therefore, we now offer you a round-up of our favourite holiday science fiction, fantasy and horror by indie authors. These … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred and Bertha's Marvellous Twenty-First Century Life, alien invasion, artificial intelligence, Demons, dragons, epic fantasy, fairies, fairytales, holiday mystery, LGBT, mundane science fiction, my books, other people's books, paranormal mystery, paranormal romance, post-apocalyptic SF, robots, science fiction romance, space colonisation, space opera, telepaths, time travel, urban fantasy, werewolves, witches
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New Release: Alfred and Bertha return in “The Three Quarters Eaten Dessert”
Alfred and Bertha, those crazy kids of the twenty-first century, are back for a new adventure. This time, they are having dinner with their neighbours, the Hoppenstedts – a dinner which quickly escalates into an argument. A bit of background: … Continue reading