Author Archives: Greg R. Fishbone
Easter Eggs in Space!
Quick! Identify this image: Although they may look like speckled eggs, these are alien worlds: a few of the 1,235 exoplanet candidates identified since 2009 by NASA’s Kepler observatory. Before Kepler, about 500 exoplanets total had been discovered, painstakingly, one-by-one, … Continue reading
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Time Travel Banned In China
Recently in China, there have been a glut of popular time travel television shows and movies. Typically, a character from modern China goes back in time and discovers that the past was a great place to live: lots of unpolluted … Continue reading
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Justin Bieber has read an advance copy of my book!
Actually, I don’t know whether or not Justin Bieber has an advance copy of Galaxy Games: The Challengers, but how else can you explain what we all saw on the Grammy Awards ceremony this weekend? At one point in my … Continue reading
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The Zombie/Ghost Spectrum
As I’m writing this entry, I have another window open with a current draft of the first zombie scene I’ve ever written. I’ve always loved watching zombie films. Dawn of the Dead, I Am Legend, 28 Days Later, and even … Continue reading
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The Test of Time
Arthur C. Clarke’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, released in 1968 based on a short story Clarke published in 1951, predicts a bold future for space exploration in the 21st Century. Clarke theorized that we would have Earth-to-Space shuttle flights run … Continue reading
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From the Archives: Girls Are from Mars, Boys Are from Transylvania
Parker Peevyhouse wrote a blog entry last week about the current spate of paranormal YA romance novels. “You’ve got girls falling in love with ghosts, vampires, dark fairies, angels, aliens… It’s all very popular right now.” The question she raised … Continue reading
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Princess Mashup and the Future of Genre Fiction
On one of the lists I’m subscribed to, I received an advertisement targeted to booksellers about a recent release. In the interest of protecting the parties responsible for its publication, let’s call it Princess Mashup and the Laser Vampire Steamship … Continue reading
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The Universe: Now With Six Times the Alien Life!
As a science-fiction writer, I try to stay current with major developments in scientific fields that touch on my work. Since my current work is a first-contact story, I’ve become particularly interested in xenobiology, exoplanets, and the search for extraterrestrial … Continue reading
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Spreading the Evil by Banning the Evil
Banning books is harmful. Often, books that are challenged are the very ones most needed by young readers looking for a safe way to explore uncomfortable issues in their lives. But that’s not why banning books is stupid. Banning books … Continue reading
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TAG, You’re It!
There was an interesting announcement recently from Sterling, the book-publishing wing of Barnes & Noble. They will be launching a YA imprint called Splinter that will debut in January with at least one fantasy title, Tiger’s Curse by Colleen Houck, followed … Continue reading
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