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This month, we’ve got tense thrillers set aboard claustrophobic spaceships, a magical sword-maker who gets caught up in a fantastical conflict in

Exciting new releases from Brandon Sanderson, Cory Doctorow, io9 co-founder Charlie Jane Anders, and so many more.

The U.S. economy and labor market have been a rollercoaster since the start of the coronavirus pandemic in March 2020. Some sectors, like hospitality, have been hindered by pandemic restrictions,

The Prophecy, Erin Pemberton (Intrigue) Just One Song, Lynn Stevens (self-published) Best Anthology Tales of the Lost Volume Two, Steve Dillon and Eugene Johnson, eds. (Plaid Dragon) Bridges, First City Books collective (First City Books) Mirrormaze: A Dreampunk Anthology, Cliff Jones Jr., ed. (Fractured Mirror) Best Short Story Collection Val Hall: The Odd Years, Alma Alexander (Book View Cafe) Grotesque: Monster Stories, Lee Murray (self-published) Snapshots: A Collection of Short Stories, El...

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a jailer. It usually gets 10 to 20 applications for the post — but as of last week, just one person had expressed interest.  At The River Pizza & Subs in Boulder, Greg Hughes normally has 10 to 12 workers heading into the summer. Now, he is making due with just five. Tizer Gardens in Jeffersonville is scrambling to find enough people to prepare its nursery for the busy spring season. In Montana City, the Jackson Creek Bar & Grill...

Star Wars: Mara Jade — By the Emperor’s Hand. Without seeing contracts or the full details of the nature of the transfer of property from Lucasfilm to Disney, it’s hard to know if each author falls into the same situation as Foster, but the result appears to be the same: They haven’t received money that they feel entitled to for the work that they published…. (2) A NOBEL PURSUIT. The Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination’s Barry Barish is an emeritus professor at Caltech, ...

 Unfit magazines use Thinkerbeat Reader to “chart… the authors that we thought did really well with a story submission.” But these are not stories they bought – six days ago they tweeted out a link to the list of stories they rejected. The page had names, titles, and a rating between one and five stars. One problem: none of the authors had given them permission to do so. SFWA followed up with a statement on Facebook warning about these practices in March 2020. After that, Long...