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Reads to Uplift You and Thrillers to Scare You, Books to Remake the Future and George R.R. Martin

BookTrib wants to keep you in the book news loop! Each week our editors take a pulse on what’s happening in the book world and hand pick stories, tidbits and reviews you may have missed. 15 Uplifting Reads to Keep You Smiling This Summer — PopSugar These 8 June Thrillers…

BookTribJune 26, 2020

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9 Reading Recommendations From Bookish Staff

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. Do you wonder what the Bookish team is reading? Do you want to take a peek at our bookshelves? You’ve come to the right place. Here are the Bookish staff’s personal weekend reading recommendations. A Duke By Default (Avon)by Alyssa Cole. They say not…

BookishAugust 1, 2018

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Leonard Nimoy: Actor, Vulcan, Renaissance man, friend

It’s too easy to say that he lived long and prospered, although many writers will begin their remembrances of Leonard Nimoy with his time-honored catchphrase. Nimoy—who was a writer, poet, photographer and musician as well as an actor—prospered in a singular and unique way. He was the breakout star playing…

Michael RuscoeFebruary 27, 2015

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10 literary tattoos that are out of this world

A few months ago, we brought you our favorite literary tattoos, but this time we’re tackling a genre that’s (quite literally) out of this world. Here are the very best sci-fi tattoos inspired by your favorite movies, shows and books:

Rachel CarterAugust 10, 2014

Miscellany Pop Culture

“Monsters of the Week:” The Essential X-Files Companion

What started out as a cult classic evolved into an integral part of pop culture, putting both David Duchovny (Fox Mulder) and Gillian Anderson (Dana Scully) on a fast track to stardom. For all of those who were steadfast fans from the start, and for those who like the skeptical…

Rebecca ProulxOctober 19, 2018

Giveaways

Weekly Giveaway: “How to be a Badass Vigilante” by Michael Anderle

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/booktrib_how-to-be-a-badass-vigilante-michael-anderle-giveaway2-scaled.jpg Enter for your chance to win a copy of the first installment of the new series in Michael Anderle's "How to be a Badass..." collection. —∞— Fed up with playing the normal game, recent university graduate, ex-cum laude, ex-soccer star, ex-popular and mostly broke Kera MacDonagh changed her life…

BookTribFebruary 18, 2021

Fiction Young Adult

“Merged” is a Trippy YA Sci-Fi Adventure That Asks Big Questions

The greatest minds of a generation dream of imparting their wisdom and making a mark for decades to come. The young, who inherit all that came before them, dream of creating something new that will stand alongside the works that came before. What if both generations could share a consciousness…

BookTribOctober 16, 2019

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Sci-Fi Military Thriller Takes Ex-SEALs Time Traveling to Identify COVID-19’s Origins

Some books are timely, some are timeless and some are about time travel. Nicklois Leonard’s The Quantum Effect: Mission Covid-19 manages to be two of the three. With a subtitle referencing the one topic on everyone’s mind these days, it would be stating the obvious to say that this military…

BookTribNovember 5, 2021

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Speculative Thriller “Azalea Bluff” Explores the Human Costs of UFO Cover-Ups

"Artist's impression of Die Glocke" by WeskerX incorporated into this artwork under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. "Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury at his best and reading like a great episode of The X-Files, this is science fiction writing of the highest order." —Jon Land, USA Today bestselling author of The Rising…

Cynthia ConradJuly 30, 2021

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Sci-Fi Novel “Luray” Introduces New Series Filled With Far-Future Intrigue

In Luray, the far-future science fiction novel that opens the series Behind the Last Gate by Dennis Haupt, we’re introduced to the title character, Luray Ulyssa Cayenne, 31, risk evaluator for SafetyNet. Highly intelligent, skilled and disciplined in her thinking, Luray happens to be the best at her job. So…

Gevera Bert PiedmontApril 27, 2021

Fiction Miscellany Save the World

Overcoming an Accident to Become a Sci-Fi Writer

Living life with a disability is never easy, and Nnedi Okorafor paints an incredible picture of how difficult her life became after her surgery gone wrong. She was destined to be the next star athlete, the next best doctor. But being paralyzed was never a part of her plan. In…

Ginny LewisJune 18, 2019

Fiction

Set in a Post-COVID-19 Chicago, “Seismic Sedition” Is an Absurdly Hilarious Sci-Fi Satire

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/seismic-sedition.jpg Crimes against volcanic pizza stones, verbal violence, dissent against Siberian-American reindeer herders, people stealing other people's voices by agreeing with them — these are just some of the absurdities and hilariously extreme forms of political correctness to be found in Seismic Sedition: The Heinous Crimes of Professor Terry Joyner,…

Gevera Bert PiedmontNovember 23, 2020

Fiction

When Words Turn into Magic in Novel ‘Ninth City Burning’

In Ninth City Burning there is a close and very special relationship between language and magic. Words are semi-magical things in themselves—intangible, weightless, and yet capable of real and drastic effect. Words have the power to wound, to uplift, to alter opinions and perceptions, and, when spoken by the right…

BookTrib Guest AuthorFebruary 9, 2017

Fiction

Finally! Tilda Swinton Leads the Pack for Next Doctor Who Search

Things are shaking up in the world of Doctor Who. Not only is longtime showrunner Steven Moffat walking away after this year, but Peter Capaldi – aka, the Twelfth Doctor – recently announced that he’ll be leaving at the end of the year as well. Capaldi will stay with the…

Rachel CarterFebruary 27, 2017

BooksToScreen Fiction

The Other, Other George R.R. Martin Series Comes to Television: Wild Cards

Superheroes are clearly super hot right now. So is the hit HBO television series Game of Thrones, based on George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire fantasy novels, which is hot off its extremely well-received sixth season. “Hmm, if only there was a way to capitalize on the…

Katie HiresAugust 11, 2016

Fiction

“The Number of Man” Explores Playing God With Clones and Trackers

Sounds like a wonderful world: tracking devices to help find missing children, protect against identity theft, provide instant access to medical information in the event of an emergency. The list goes on. But without legal authorization, who gives researchers, technicians, scientists and others the right to, in effect, play God…

Jim AlkonMay 20, 2020

Reads to Uplift You and Thrillers to Scare You, Books to Remake the Future and George R.R. Martin

9 Reading Recommendations From Bookish Staff

Leonard Nimoy: Actor, Vulcan, Renaissance man, friend

10 literary tattoos that are out of this world

“Monsters of the Week:” The Essential X-Files Companion

Weekly Giveaway: “How to be a Badass Vigilante” by Michael Anderle

“Merged” is a Trippy YA Sci-Fi Adventure That Asks Big Questions

Sci-Fi Military Thriller Takes Ex-SEALs Time Traveling to Identify COVID-19’s Origins

Speculative Thriller “Azalea Bluff” Explores the Human Costs of UFO Cover-Ups

Sci-Fi Novel “Luray” Introduces New Series Filled With Far-Future Intrigue

Overcoming an Accident to Become a Sci-Fi Writer

Set in a Post-COVID-19 Chicago, “Seismic Sedition” Is an Absurdly Hilarious Sci-Fi Satire

When Words Turn into Magic in Novel ‘Ninth City Burning’

Finally! Tilda Swinton Leads the Pack for Next Doctor Who Search

The Other, Other George R.R. Martin Series Comes to Television: Wild Cards

“The Number of Man” Explores Playing God With Clones and Trackers

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