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New Release / Giveaway: You Can Do Magic – R.L. Merrill

You Can Do Magic - R.L. Merrill

R.L. Merrill has a new MM rock ‘n roll fantasy/paranormal romance (bi, gay) out in the Carnival of Mysteries shared universe: You Can Do Magic. This is also book three in Merrill’s Summer of Hush series. And there’s a giveaway. From the author of Foreword Indies Finalist Summer of Hush and BookLife Prize Quarterfinalist Brains … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Reanimated Hearts Could Save More Transplant Patients

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A method for “reanimating” organ donors’ hearts works just as well as the standard approach to collecting hearts for transplantation, new trial data shows. If widely applied, the method could increase the heart donor pool by an estimated 30%. “Honestly if we could snap our fingers and just get people to use this, I think … Read more

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Review: You Can Do Magic – R.L. Merrill

You Can Do Magic - R.L. Merrill

Genre: Romance, Fantasy Reviewer: Tony Get It On Amazon About The Book From the author of Foreword Indies Finalist Summer of Hush and BookLife Prize Quarterfinalist Brains and Brawn comes a new installment in the series, a contemporary gay romance with a side of time travel and magic. Musical prodigy Kallos Alexandrou has played his calliope for countless visitors at … Read more

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Writer Fuel: The Nazca Lines of Peru

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The Nazca Lines, a group of hundreds of mysterious geoglyphs etched into the desert in Peru, have mystified scientists for nearly a century. People from ancient civilizations made the drawings over a period of hundreds of years, beginning around 200 B.C. By analyzing the style and subject matter of the drawings and the methods used … Read more

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Double Review: You Can Do Magic – R.L. Merrill

You Can Do Magic - R.L. Merrill

Genre: Romance, Fantasy Reviewers: Linda, Ulysses – Paranrmal Romance Guild, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It On Amazon About The Book From the author of Foreword Indies Finalist Summer of Hush and BookLife Prize Quarterfinalist Brains and Brawn comes a new installment in the series, a contemporary gay romance with a side of time travel and … Read more

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Writer Fuel: How Many Have Died in Space Programs, and How?

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Spaceflight is anything but safe, and the quest to explore the final frontier comes with huge risks for the astronauts leading the charge. But has spaceflight actually cost people their lives? Yes, 21 people have died in space, Nigel Packham, NASA’s associate director of safety and mission assurance, told Live Science. Five spaceflight missions — … Read more

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Review: Aether – Molly J. Bragg

Aether - Molly J. Bragg

Genre: Superhero Reviewer: Beáta Get It On Amazon About The Book When Maggie Bennett agreed to take a break from her own research to be the test subject in an experiment, all she wanted to do was help her best friend Sierra secure grant funding for the new medical imaging machine she was developing. But … Read more

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Dying Stars Build Cocoons that Shake the Fabric of Space-Time

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Since the first direct detection of the space-time ripples known as gravitational waves was announced in 2016, astronomers regularly listen for the ringing of black holes across the universe. Projects like the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (better known as LIGO) have detected almost 100 collisions between black holes (and sometimes neutron stars), which shake up … Read more

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Review: Endurance – Elaine Burnes

Endurance - Elaine Burnes

Genre: Sci-Fi Reviewer: Beáta Get It On Amazon About The Book Winner—2023 GCLS Award for Science Fiction/FantasyFinalist—2023 GCLS Ann Bannon Popular Choice Award “Imagine Star Trek Voyager, but done right” — nerds of a feather, flock together What if you were stranded. On a spaceship. Four light years from Earth. With a hundred tourists. And … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Astronomers Find New Invisible Filaments at the Heart of the Milky Way

Radio observations of the Milky Way's center, including hundreds of newly discovered filaments (the smaller, yellowish lines and dots). (Image credit: Farhad Yusef-Zadeh/Northwestern University)

Astronomers have discovered hundreds of strange, stringlike structures at the center of our galaxy, possibly tracing the violent path of an ancient black hole eruption. According to new research published June 2 in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, each of these previously unknown “filaments” measures between 5 and 10 light-years in length — thousands of times … Read more