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INTERVIEW: Charles Tyra launches new science fiction...

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2025/05/01

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in May: FREE Sci-fi & Fantasy.Over 165 stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost.A heroic, humorous, and inspirational space opera!Get your FREE copy of Showdown at Jupiter's Edge: A Maxo Magnaveer Adventure by Daniel P. Douglas.Space cop Maxo Magnaveer, desperate for a major career boost, takes a wild left turn at Mercury to pursue a greedy pirate, setting himself onto a collision course with destiny!In the year 2247,

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"Probability Amplitudes": Incremental progress and a...

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2025/04/24

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in April: FREE Adventures in Sci-fi & Fantasy.Over 150 stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost.My latest novelette, “Fire From Heaven,” now appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 29: First Contact.In the shadows of an alien world, terror awaits. On the radiation-blasted planet Janus, a team of explorers descends into Abbadon—an ancient mountain facility hiding unimaginable secrets. As they navigate bizarre chambers filled

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Audible's original adaptation of "1984" by George...

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2025/04/19

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How is gravity related to the other three fundamental...

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2025/04/03

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in March and April: Expect the Unexpected: Fantasy and Science Fiction with Unusual Plot Twists!Over fifty short stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost.Maddie is the NPC with attitude! Buy a copy of Desert Runner by Dawn Chapman!Plagued by old injuries that won't heal, she's enticed into accepting a deadly escort mission. Of course, it's to cross the damned desert... and in the middle of Tromoal breeding season, no less

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Prospective stories for "Probability Amplitudes"

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2025/03/08

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in March: Up & Comers: Bringing You the Best in Speculative Fiction.Over fifty short stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost.Wars make unlikely allies.Get your FREE copy of Shadow Game by Caitlin Demaris McKenna!When his ship is damaged, retired assassin Gau Shesharrim finds himself stranded on a hostile world. To repair his ship, he will have to sneak into a jungle spaceport crawling with Terrans and their scaly Urd

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Daniel Suarez wins 2024 Prometheus Award for...

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2025/02/20

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in February: FREE Sci-Fi & Fantasy.Nearly 200 short stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost.When your only option is a man who can't commit, what is Plan B?Get your FREE copy of Time of Commitment by Kate Kyle!Greg ignored the doubt tugging at the pit of his stomach. The target was a poor choice, but if he wanted to get Rutger onto that ship, this was their only chance.So, his plan had to work. It was as perfect as he

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"Probability Amplitudes" is back over the halfway mark

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2025/02/13

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in February: FREE Sci-Fi & Fantasy.Nearly 200 short stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost.She's an Artificial Intelligence Containment operative, monitoring AI for signs of sentience.Get your FREE copy of The Badge by Sheri Singerling!Sonja is an Artificial Intelligence Containment (AIC) operative, or a badge in hacker slang. As an operative, Sonja is tasked with finding and evaluating AI that may be sentient. If they

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RIP Science Fiction Book Club (1953-2025)

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2025/01/31

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in January and February: Moral Dilemmas in Fantasy & Science Fiction.Over 40 short stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost.A marine's duty is to fight. Her curse is to remember.Get your FREE copy of The Blade Within by Dylan McFadyenCommander Sorăna Mirra has spent years leading a hand-picked team of marine special operators. Together they've taken the fight to humanity's oldest foe, the vicious Kyrans, defeating them

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A critique of Ned Beauman's Arthur C. Clarke...

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2025/01/23

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in January and February: Moral Dilemmas in Fantasy & Science Fiction.Over 40 short stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost."When the skies turned red and the stars fell, humanity's fight for survival began."Get your FREE copy of Defending Earth by C. S. Hawk.When a horde of slimy extraterrestrial creatures arrives on Earth with an insatiable appetite for destruction, three unlikely heroes step up to defend our planet.As

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From the depths of the sea to the depths of space

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2025/01/09

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in January: Strong Women.80 short stories and novels, available at no cost.Will humanity come together to save a dying Earth?Get your FREE copy of A Fading Star by Greg HickeyEarth is dying. Ravaged by disease, hunger, climate change and world wars. Can humanity unite to avoid extinction?In 2153, cancer was cured. In 2189, AIDS. It seemed like humanity was headed for the stars.Global population soared, surpassing 24 billion. Then came the

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"Fire From Heaven"

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2025/01/02

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in January: Strong Women.80 short stories and novels, available at no cost.When we encounter alien life among the stars, will they have made the same mistakes we have? Worse? Will we even be able to understand them? And what will they understand about us?My new novelette, “Fire From Heaven,” the sequel to “Nasty, Brutish, and Short," appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 29: First Contact.Thanks for reading The Cosmic Codex! Subscribe for free

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Pioneers in an alien sky

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2024/12/28

Beneath the frozen silence, a world awaits discovery.Get your FREE copy of Under the Ice by Marie-Hélène Lebeault!Beneath the frozen silence, a world awaits discoveryIn a future where the Earth's surface is uninhabitable, humanity survives under the ocean, within a protective Dome. Ryn, a unique individual unable to adapt to aquatic life like the others, faces a dire situation when the Dome's stability is compromised. As their only hope for survival lies beyond the icy barrier above, Ryn embarks on

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Making the future better than it used to be

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2024/11/28

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in November: Short Story Smorgasbord.Nearly 65 short stories, available at no cost.When aliens arrive in Sol, how does humanity react in the first few hours?Get your FREE copy of Dark Nebula: Contact by Sean WilsonAfter several years of unstable peace throughout Sol, mankind is confronted with the arrival of an unknown alien force. Everyone deals with the unexpected arrivals differently.Military forces guarding the front lines of a century

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"Probability Amplitudes": Elements in flux

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2024/11/21

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in November: Short Story Smorgasbord.Nearly 65 short stories, available at no cost.Get your FREE copy of Warmonger by Monique Singleton!In the near future, France is ruled by an ultra-right minded president. The country is in chaos, the chasm between rich and poor is ever increasing. Unwittingly a beautiful woman becomes the catalyst that starts not only a new French Revolution but also the Third World War.But what is the role of the strange

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2024/11/14

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in September: Free Fantasy & SciFi.Seventy science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost.A black hole is coming for Earth, but that is only the beginning of Miranda’s problems.Get a free sample of Without a World by Kristen Illarmo!Subscribe to Kristen's newsletter and receive special offers, new release details, and a welcome gift delivered right to your inbox.20% off for new readers!She thought life in the Trash Lands was bad,

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Heinlein saw this coming

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2024/11/05

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in September: Free Fantasy & SciFi.Seventy science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost.Indiana Jones meets Air Bud in this short tail of loyalty, responsibility, and adventure set in The Realm of Reason...Get your FREE copy of Seeker by August Niehaus.Opie works a boring government job so he can send money back home on Mars to his drug-addicted parents (who don't even remember their son is a cybernetic human-dog hybrid now). He's

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Speaking for the dead

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2024/10/18

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in October: Fantasy & SciFi October Freebies.Seventy science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost.My latest novelette, “Nasty, Brutish, and Short,” now appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 28: SF Horror.When the first expedition to the mysterious planet Janus takes a deadly turn, Lieutenant Carita Keahi must fight for survival against an alien ecosystem unlike anything humanity has ever encountered. As crew members fall victim to

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"Nasty, Brutish, and Short"

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2024/10/07

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in October: Fantasy & SciFi October Freebies.Seventy science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost.As we have learned more about the difficulties of interstellar travel, writing believable stories set around other suns has become more challenging. This problem is a key part of the background in my new novelette, “Nasty, Brutish, and Short,” now appearing in Boundary Shock Quarterly 28: SF Horror, just in time for Halloween.Thanks

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The next question

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2024/09/26

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in September: Free Fantasy & SciFi.Seventy science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost.Get your FREE copy of Passageway!“Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we've got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it's one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it's

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What sf authors does an sf legend recommend?

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2024/09/19

My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in September: Free Fantasy & SciFi.Seventy science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost.For a chance to live, would you leave everything you know behind?Get your FREE copy of If I Go!Home with his overwrought older sister as a deadly flu pandemic sweeps the globe, sixteen-year-old Daniel is scared and out of his depth. Unable to reach his parents, his only source of comfort as the world falls apart are his faithful pets. When a

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