Joan Slonczewski - Reactor

Joan Slonczewski - Reactor

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Collection of 28 book covers highlighting SFF titles publishing in July and August 2025 with independent presses

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Indie Press Spotlight

Can’t Miss Indie Press Speculative Fiction for July and August 2025

By Tobias Carroll

July 17, 2025

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Science Fiction

Star Power: Five Classic SF Works Featuring Tau Ceti

By James Davis Nicoll

September 20, 2023

Artist's conception of a Jupiter-like rogue planet.

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Science Fiction

Five Plot-Friendly Ways to Isolate Planets and Space Colonies

By James Davis Nicoll

March 27, 2023

This artist's conception depicts the Kepler-10 star system

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Science Fiction

Classic SF Featuring Planets With Very Long or Very Short Days

By James Davis Nicoll

August 23, 2021

Space Colony concept art

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Science Fiction

Five Fictional Space Colonies From the Post-Disco Era

By James Davis Nicoll

August 16, 2021

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Science Fiction

Five Novels About the World After the End of the World

By James Davis Nicoll

December 11, 2020

concept art for a NASA space ship

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Science Fiction

Four Stories That Subvert the Cosy Catastrophe Genre

By James Davis Nicoll

November 30, 2020

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Science Fiction

Five Books Featuring Alien Oceans

By James Davis Nicoll

October 30, 2020

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reviews

Well Worth the Wait: The Highest Frontier by Joan Slonczewski

By Stefan Raets

September 13, 2011

Where Do I Start With That--S

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Bob Shaw

OK, where do I start with that? S

By Jo Walton

August 8, 2010

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Science

ReaderCon Panel Recap: “Everybody Loves Dirigibles—Science For Tomorrow’s Fiction”

By Andrew Liptak

July 18, 2010

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A Door Into Ocean

Self-naming and death-hastening: Joan Slonczewski’s A Door Into Ocean

By Jo Walton

September 20, 2009

“There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.”

C.S. Lewis, The Voyage Of The Dawn Treader

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