Category: Reading
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The Art of Time Travel: How Sci-Fi Has Changed
Over the few years, I’ve found myself reading more classic science fiction than usual. Recently, I read Larry Niven’s Ringworld series for and Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama for the first time, followed by Clarke’s Childhood’s End, a favorite of mine from adolescence. While I loved each of them, I couldn’t help but…
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Artemis II & Science Fiction
As a life-long enthusiast of science fiction, science fact, and space exploration as a concept, I have always sort of (and perhaps naively) took it for granted that we would one day go back to the moon. It felt like an inevitability to me. Yet, now that it’s finally happening…
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My Top 5 Sci-Fi Books
I have always been a child of science fiction–which is kind of odd, since neither of my parents were super into it when I was a kid. I don’t know where it came from (though I suspect it was the syndicated Star Trek I watched during the day at my…
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TBR Piles: How I Choose What to Read Next
When I was a little kid, I was a massively avid reader. I would often read three books at a time: whatever I had been assigned for English, and two more for my own pleasure. I consumed books at an incredible rate, and was thus a frequent visitor of my…
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The Yips: How to Break a Reading Slump
As a speculative fiction author, I believe strongly that in order to be a great writer, you must be a great reader. And not just of your preferred genre. You must read wide and often, casting your net as broadly as you can. However, despite that belief, I find myself…
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7 of My All-Time Favorite Books
I’ve been an avid reader since I was young, so there’s no way I could accurately rate every book I’ve ever read. There are definitely some that should be on this list that I have forgotten, and certainly more that I haven’t read yet. So, let’s just call these 7 of my…
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Raye’s Rants: Stories, Politics, and Escapism
We just had a long weekend here in Canada for our Thanksgiving, and it has thrown off my whole work schedule for the week. I usually work on the Mondays of long weekends to avoid that, but this time we took some much needed family time, so I’m a little…
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Do Audiobooks Count as Reading?
I’m going to do something this week I rarely ever do–here or anywhere else on the internet for that matter–give a short, but hopefully somewhat hot take. My takes on the usual pop culture subjects tend to be lukewarm at best, but I think I have a unique perspective on…
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The Next 5 Books on My TBR Pile
I’ve been so busy with editing Gas Giant Gambit lately (plus the whole “adopting a new dog and then creating a new routine to accommodate their needs,” as well as more beer league hockey than I can shake a stick at) that I’ve fallen a little behind on my reading…
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Reading Goals for 2025
Last year I discovered Goodread‘s Reading Challenge and set a goal of 15 books for myself–and reached it. 15 was, admittedly, an easily attainable goal. That said, I had my doubts I would finish, given the fact that many of the books I read are extremely long (The From a…
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