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Review: You Are Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station – Mary E. Lowd

You are Cordially Invited to Crossroads Station - Mary E. Lowd

Genre: Sci-Fi, Furry, Cozy Space Opera Reviewer: Lucy Get It On Amazon About The Book When an unexpected wedding invitation arrives, Anno packs her family up for a trip across the stars. There’s a lot of fun, touristy things to do on Crossroads Station, including spacewalks, cloud surfing on New Jupiter, and enjoying the cosmopolitan … Read more

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Writer Fuel: What’s This Strange Spiral In the Alaskan Sky?

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An ethereal whirlpool of light recently appeared in the night sky above Alaska, briefly stealing the limelight from a strong auroral display. But the bizarre, spiral-shaped object had nothing to do with the dancing polar lights. Instead, the luminous vortex was just the latest example of what astronomers have nicknamed “SpaceX spirals,” which are becoming … Read more

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Review: Crow’s Fate – Kim Fielding

Crow's Fate - Kim Fielding

Genre: Romance, Fantasy Reviewer: Ulysses, Paranormal Romance Guild Get It At Amazon | B&N About The Book You can’t fly away from destiny. Crow Rapp assumes he’ll spend his life growing corn in rural Illinois, like the grandparents who raised him. But during a visit to a traveling carnival, he encounters a handsome stranger named Simeon Bell—and … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Can Gravity Become Light?

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Gravity can turn itself into light, but only if space-time behaves in just the right way, a research team has found. Under normal circumstances, you cannot get something from nothing. Specifically, the Standard Model of particle physics, the reigning theory that explains the subatomic zoo of particles, usually forbids the transformation of massless particles into … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Short-Term Memory Illusions Can Warm Memories

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Human beings can generate false memories of events mere seconds after they have occurred, a new study has found. The phenomenon, which researchers have dubbed “short-term memory illusions,” shows how easily and rapidly humans reimagine experiences to fit our preconceptions, rather than accurately recording what takes place. The researchers published their findings April 5 in … Read more

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Writer Fuel: 25 (Real) Ancient Sea Monsters

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From the creepiest Cambrian critters to massive marine reptiles, wonderfully weird sea creatures have inhabited our oceans for over half a billion years. We’ve put together a list of 25 of the strangest ancient sea monsters ever to have lived, all of which went extinct long before humans came along. The only reason we know … Read more

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Writer Fuel: How Tall Could the Highest (Earth) Mountain Get?

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Sixty million years ago, when the Eurasian plate slammed into the Indian plate, a mountain range was born. Because these plates were of similar density, neither could sink below the other. The rocks had nowhere to go but up. Now, the Himalayas host Earth’s tallest mountains. Mount Everest is the tallest, towering 5.4 miles (8.8 … Read more

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Writer Fuel: It’s Getting Hot in Here

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For the past three days, from Monday through Wednesday (July 3-5), global temperatures have either broken or matched records for the hottest day on Earth since at least 1979, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer, a tool that compiles data and models to measure the global atmosphere. Monday’s average worldwide temperature climbed to … Read more

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Review: Coulrotopia – by Matt Doyle

Coulrotopia - Matt Doyle

Genre: Horror Reviewer: Gordon, Paranormal Romance Guild Publisher | Amazon About The Book When Coulroptopia—the world’s only circus where the performers are all animatronic clowns—comes to your town, you know you’re in for a show like no other. From the knife-throwing of The Juggla to the attempts to tame the monstrous Boozle, there’s something for … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Students to Land First Rover on the Moon

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After 65 years of lunar exploration, the United States is finally going to put its first autonomous rover on the moon. But this mission won’t be helmed by NASA engineers — instead, it is the brainchild of a dedicated group of college students. The Iris rover was developed by students, faculty and alumni at Carnegie Mellon … Read more