Author Tabitha Lord is a woman who wears many hats. Not only is she a science fiction author, but she is also a senior editor for Book Club Babble and working on a non-fiction collection of stories connected with an awareness campaign for children with pediatric cancer. Let me take a moment to introduce myself. […]
Book Name: Red Mars Author: Kim Stanley Robinson First Published: 1993 Nebula Award Winner for Best Novel 1993 Author Kim Stanley Robinson was born in Waukegan, Illinois, but mainly grew up in Southern California. He earned a B.A. in literature from the University of California, San Diego in 1974 and gained a Masters in English […]
Book Name: The Integral Trees Author: Larry Niven First Published: 1984 Locus Award 1985 Larry Niven was born in Los Angeles, California and spent much of his childhood in Beverly Hills. His schooling has ranged from a brief stint at Cal Tec, to Washburn University in Kansas, to graduate work in mathematics at UCLA. He […]
Book Name: Time Enough For Love Author: Robert A. Heinlein First Published: 1973 Prometheus Hall of Fame Award recipient 1998 Nominated for Nebula 1973 Nominated for Hugo and Locus Awards 1974 Robert Anson Heinlein was born in 1907 to accountant Rex Ivar Heinlein and Bam Lyle Heinlein. He spent much of his childhood in Kansas […]
Book Name: Glory Season Author: David Brin First Published: 1993 Nominated: Hugo 1994 and Locus 1994 David Brin is an American scientist and writer of hard science fiction novels. His works have been New York Times Bestsellers and he has won multiple Hugo, Nebula, Locus, and Campbell awards. Brin was born in Glendale, California. He […]
Book Name: Dreamsnake Author: Vonda N. McIntyre First Published: 1978 Awards: Hugo, Nebula, Locus Vonda N. McIntyre was born in 1948 in Louisville, Kentucky. She moved around a great deal during her childhood finally settling in Seattle, Washington with her family. She earned a bachelor of science in biology at the University of Washington and […]
Hi, I’m Elora. I’m here because I love science fiction, and I think some of you do too. Science fiction has been a force in popular culture for long enough now that it is hard to get a grasp on what it really is. Is it an art style? A world-building aesthetic? A joke? A […]
Book Name: Hyperion Author: Dan Simmons First Published: 1989 Hugo Award for Best Novel 1990 Locus Award Winner 1990 Dan Simmons was born on April 4, 1948 in Peoria, Illinois. He received his B.A in English from Wabash College in 1970 and his Masters in Education from Washington University the following year. He became an […]
To be upfront, this is a male pregnancy story. I never thought I would read or enjoy a story around this concept, mainly due to a lot of bad publicity around Mpreg stories on fan fiction. But instead of playing with biology for laughs, Giddings’ story is serious speculation on youth and parenthood. In Giddings’ […]
Book Name: The Many-Coloured Land Author: Julian May First Published: 1981 Julian Clare May was born on July 10, 1931 to Matthew M. May and Julia Feilen May. She grew up in Elmwood Park in Illinois and was known as Judy May when she was young. She was the oldest child and had three younger […]
