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2018 by planetary defense commander in 5 star movie off topic 11 comments the raid redemption this movie isn t science fiction but i ve noticed that many sci fi bloggers are fans of john wick and the two movies seem similar to me both having enough plot to be real stories but focusing primarily on action with a high body count my wife has just pointed out to me double double april 11 2018 by planetary defense commander in big house classic novel science fiction 19 comments i ve just purchased these two ace double paperbacks containing stories written from 1958 to 1962 those cover images aren t upside down by mistake with a double you read one story which ends in the middle of the book then flip the book over and start reading inward from the other direction the individual stories are side quest from underbridge to goodnight moons april 6 2018 by planetary defense commander in anthology epic fantasy science fiction short story urban fantasy 7 comments the best science fiction and fantasy of the year volume six ok i didn t have good luck with the first nine stories in this collection or the next ten but here are the last twelve anyway underbridge by peter beagle a troll statue eats small animals and eventually people relic by jeffrey ford a story about a side quest from malak to after the apocalypse march 29 2018 by planetary defense commander in anthology epic fantasy science fiction short story urban fantasy 6 comments the best science fiction and fantasy of the year volume six i didn t have good luck with the first nine stories from this collection but i m sure that was just nine anomalies in a row here are the next ten malak by peter watts a drone develops or gets programmed with i can t remember a conscience side quest attempt 2 march 22 2018 by planetary defense commander in anthology epic fantasy science fiction short story urban fantasy writing 21 comments last year i announced my side quest to read several best of collections and see whether any of them were worth reading through the years my first attempt was a disaster check out the wrap up post for attempt 2 i m reading the best science fiction and fantasy of the year volume six here are my takes midsouthcon 36 march 18 2018 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy science fiction urban fantasy writing 21 comments last sunday my wife and i made a last minute decision to drive to memphis tn and catch the final day of midsouthcon we had to work friday and saturday and because memphis is a couple hours of driving each way and we didn t have a dog sitter we only had a few hours at the con dnf fire with fire march 10 2018 by planetary defense commander in 2 star big house novel science fiction writing 23 comments fire with fire by charles gannon i didn t post about it in january but my new year s resolution was to dnf more books dnf is book blogger slang for did not finish since i became a book blogger i ve dnfed very little but i m frustrated by the low average quality of my reading material and i review part ii jade city march 2 2018 by planetary defense commander in 4 star big house novel urban fantasy writing 7 comments jade city by fonda lee in part i of my review i wrote about the publisher s deceptive marketing jade city is slow paced not a kung fu action fest as promised but if you enjoy worldbuilding and character building jade city could be right up your alley the story is set in a fictional asian island nation kekon review part i jade city february 22 2018 by planetary defense commander in 4 star big house novel urban fantasy writing 16 comments jade city by fonda lee i enjoyed jade city and wish i could jump right into telling you why i enjoyed it but first i think i need to talk about the elephant in the room the publisher s deceptive marketing the book was promoted as the godfather crossed with a kung fu action flick 2017 planetary award nominees february 18 2018 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy science fiction short story urban fantasy writing 6 comments the reblog function on wordpress has been broken for several days so i m cutting and pasting the nominees below if you re a blogger podcaster or youtuber and would like to cast a vote go to the planetary awards site nominees for best short story or novella acadie by dave hutchinson the bitten body by ac nomination the pilot february 13 2018 by planetary defense commander in big house science fiction short story 13 comments it s getting close to the february 14th deadline for planetary awards nominations so it s time i threw my short story candidate into the ring well not literally as you ll see below that would be dangerous last month i posted a list of short stories i was considering for nomination i ended up choosing none of review nomination kings of the wyld february 7 2018 by planetary defense commander in 5 star big house epic fantasy novel 22 comments kings of the wyld by nicholas eames kings of the wyld is about bands of mercenaries with the modern concept of musical bands thrown in the mercenary bands are small four or five people and have fans and booking agents the primary characters are the older members of a band which broke up long ago review the deep range january 30 2018 by planetary defense commander in 4 star classic novel science fiction 19 comments the deep range by arthur c clarke i almost let january slip by without making a post for vintage science fiction month but i m getting my last minute contribution in with a little known book by arthur c clarke the deep range first published in 1957 is a science fiction novel which takes place mostly on islands more charts and tables january 27 2018 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy 9 comments how s that for a clickbait title it s a mystery why internet marketing firms aren t flooding me with high paying job offers and consulting gigs i ve realized that in my hurry to look at the stories in my 49 ranked magazines broken down by genre by nation by gender and by pay i didn t present the entire are they getting their money s worth january 24 2018 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy writing 25 comments it would be reasonable to assume that magazines which pay more for their stories end up with higher quality material to publish i decided to plot my ratings of short stories in 49 ranked magazines against the cents per word paid for them i was only able to use 299 out of 365 stories as some gender breakdown january 22 2018 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy writing 26 comments let s break down the stories in my 49 ranked magazines by the author s gender gender avg stars 5 max of stories avg wordcount unknown 2 88 4 3 982 male 2 79 217 4 342 female 2 46 138 4 406 indeterminate 2 42 6 3 667 unknown means that the author used initials so i couldn t guess at their gender and national breakdown january 17 2018 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy writing 15 comments now let s break down the stories in the 49 magazines by the author s nationality i couldn t always find this information and i ve left out countries which only had one data point here s what s left nation avg stars 5 max of stories avg wordcount australia 3 08 18 5 513 south africa 2 83 3 3 660 new zealand genre breakdown january 15 2018 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy writing 18 comments it s time to look at the stories in my forty nine ranked magazines by genre first let s see if editors prefer one genre over another i removed magazines which were only science fiction or only fantasy and came up with the following breakdown genre of stories of stories science fiction 120 41 0 modern day fantasy five star system january 12 2018 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy writing 19 comments over the next couple of weeks i ll be writing at least four posts discussing the results from the first round of my magazine quest they will reference the ratings from one to five that i gave individual stories so that you ll have some perspective i decided to describe what the different star ratings mean 49 sci fi fantasy magazines ranked from best to worst january 10 2018 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy writing 29 comments in my last post i explained why i ve cut off my first round of magazine reviews at 49 and described my ranking method so on to the results giving my first issue of each magazine an olympic style score from 10 to 1 warning do not go to the website of red sun magazine as its dingdingding january 7 2018 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy 9 comments that s the bell signalling the end of round one of my magazine quest i initially thought i d only review twelve sff magazines but that number ballooned to forty nine i decided forty nine was an appropriate stopping point as my search for great stories has been like that of the 49ers who searched for gold in the thoughts on best sff short story of 2017 january 4 2018 by planetary defense commander in big house epic fantasy science fiction self published short story urban fantasy 11 comments earlier this week i posted my thoughts on the best novel of 2017 and now its time for short stories i ve been reading lots of them lately wrapping up round one of my magazine quest reading for rounds two and three and working on another reading project that i ll announce when the magazine quest finishes thoughts on best sff novel of 2017 january 2 2018 by planetary defense commander in big house epic fantasy novel science fiction self published urban fantasy 9 comments it s time for my annual realization that while i read many books in 2017 i read very few novels that were released in 2017 i generally read a non fiction book for every work of fiction i read and my fiction reading tends to jump around the years and decades so it s time for me to submit your 2017 nominations january 1 2018 by planetary defense commander in uncategorized 10 comments originally posted on planetary awards happy new year it s time to nominate your favorite science fiction and fantasy writing for the 2017 planetary awards we re again doing only two categories shorter story under 40 000 words 160 paperback pages longer story novels if you re a blogger podcaster or youtuber the nomination process is easy state your magazine diabolical plots december 30 2017 by planetary defense commander in magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy writing 6 comments you ve probably heard me mention the submissions grinder website before as that s where i found the majority of the magazines i ve reviewed it s an excellent tool for short story authors as it will list magazines that are currently accepting submissions of a story s genre and length also if you log your submissions there it will podcast the overcast december 29 2017 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy 8 comments the overcast is a podcast based in the pacific northwest which puts out a short story every two weeks or so it must be as rainy as they say in that part of the country as there are approximately one gigazillion podcasts there which have named themselves the overcast i haphazardly selected seven stories from podcast the drabblecast december 28 2017 by planetary defense commander in magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy 6 comments the drabblecast is a podcast which puts out a short story every week their tagline is strange stories by strange authors for strange listeners and they deliver i listened to five of their stories and four of them are probably the weirdest stories i ve read during my magazine quest the fifth was a fairly conventional magazine alien dimensions 12 december 27 2017 by planetary defense commander in magazine science fiction short story 9 comments alien dimensions 12 short stories antlions by elana gomel first contact with some unusual aliens they get jealous when a human man gets too friendly with one of their females the exchange by neil hogan the main character is a woman whose job is first contact with aliens by having sex with them part of her magazine just a minor malfunction issue 3 december 26 2017 by planetary defense commander in magazine science fiction short story 9 comments just a minor malfunction issue 3 short stories left to her own devices by james armer a spaceship ai downloads its personality into a robot body so it can explore a moon when the ship and its human passengers leave a fresh copy of the ai is left on the spaceship without the developed personality day early christmas present december 24 2017 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy science fiction urban fantasy 10 comments merry christmas eve everybody i was trying to decide what to get all of you for christmas but it turns out the only thing you have in common is that you like to read a sci fi book blog written by a grouchy old man my wife informs me that i m not that old but they magazine empyreome issue 3 december 23 2017 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy 6 comments empyreome issue 3 short stories quest for the silver shard by adam o connell a story about some fairy pixie creatures with a death by lawnmower at the end oscars on the rue jules verne by l chan a human actress leads some mole people in combat because the mole people need pheromone signals from queens but mole people queens are too magazine stupefying stories march 2017 december 22 2017 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy 6 comments stupefying stories march 2017 short stories i live the warrior s life by robert russell an engaging story with an abrupt mid story ending so an engaging half of a story i guess set in a post apocalyptic america where the apocalypse was caused by an indian shaman unleashing spirits the spirits don t kill amerindians this is not when magazine outposts of beyond july 2017 december 21 2017 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy 8 comments outposts of beyond july 2017 note that the linked item at amazon has an incorrect cover image you may have noticed that my last few magazine reviews did not have intro stories i m trying to wrap up round one of my magazine quest which i ve just realized began in late 2015 by the end of the magazine strange horizons december 20 2017 by planetary defense commander in epic fantasy magazine science fiction short story urban fantasy 13 comments strange horizons is not a magazine in the traditional sense with monthly o...