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The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

The magazine of the science fiction, fantasy, and horror field with news, reviews, and author interviews

Students at Dargaville High School are swapping the classroom for a construction site to build desperately-needed public houses for the North. The school is churning out beautifully made homes for the rohe, and the students making them have been bitten by the building bug. Our cameraman Nick Monro and reporter Nita Blake-Persen went to check out their mahi.

A few days ago, I looked at the calendar and said, “But what do you mean, it’s more than halfway through May?” My sense of time passing remains disconnected from reality, in a faintly comedic way that makes the day of the week a constant startlement. Truly startling and not at all comedic, though, was the news that Lois McMaster Bujold has published a full-length novel in her “Penric and Desdemona” series. The Assassins of Thasalon is her first novel in the world of the Five Gods si...

A few days ago, I looked at the calendar and said, “But what do you mean, it’s more than halfway through May?” My sense of time passing remains disconnected from reality, in a faintly comedic way that makes the day of the week a constant startlement. Truly startling and not at all comedic, though, was the news that Lois McMaster Bujold has published a full-length novel in her “Penric and Desdemona” series. The Assassins of Thasalon is her first novel in the world of the Five Gods si...

Tampa Bay’s mass vaccination sites wind down as rollout hits new phase The focus shifts to reaching those who have been unable or unwilling to get COVID-19 shots. “We’re not done yet.”     Nurse Esther Martineau, left, administers a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine shot to Nelsida Fuenmayor, of Tampa, on Tuesday at the federally-run Tampa Greyhound Track site. The site is giving its last shot on May 25. [ DOUGLAS R. CLIFFORD | Times ] Updated 4 hours ago The waning d...

Tim Pratt’s Axiom trilogy ( The Wrong Stars, The Dreaming Stars, and The Forbidden Stars) is a trio of excellent, modern, space-opera pulp adventures, with a compelling cast and a satisfying amount of solv­ing problems by blowing them up. I’m gutted that there don’t seem to be any plans for more novel-length works in this setting – and at the same time delighted by the novellas collected in The Alien Stars and Other Novellas, which form a coda of sorts to the trilogy. The Alien Star...

Windumanoth . Where are you based, how often are issues released, and what kind of material do you publish? Windumanoth is officially based in Barcelona, Spain. But the reality is that most of the staff live in different places in the country, and we’ve worked remotely from the beginning. The issues are released every four months. This is a somewhat long publication cadence to be able to fully cover the current affairs of the genre. For that reason, Windumanoth also has a website that helps ...

Lima Public Library Book Reviews LIBRARY OPEN • The Lima Public Library has reopened. Main library hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Branch hours are noon to 6 p.m. Mondays to Thursdays, except Lafayette is closed Wednesdays. • The main library has curbside pick up. Hours are 2 to 6 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays. Call 567-712-5239, contact the library through Facebook Messenger or put a hold on a book through t...

Trucking companies across the country are being hit with a big issue. No drivers to drive their trucks, but this issue is larger than just the company.