Author Archives: Stefan (Far Beyond Reality)

The Week That Was: April 22nd, 2012

I’ve let this section of the site slide for a few weeks, mainly because life got too busy, but I’m hoping to get it going again. So, here’s my first The Week That Was post in about a month!

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Guest Post on The Speculative Scotsman: “Her Husband’s Hands” by Adam-Troy Castro

Niall of The Speculative Scotsman invited me to write a guest post for his blog during his current trip abroad. Of course I couldn’t turn down the opportunity to have my feeble attempts at writing appear on such a wonderful … Continue reading

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Interview: John Joseph Adams

If you read many science fiction and fantasy short stories or anthologies, you’re probably already familiar with the name John Joseph Adams, but just in case: John is the highly acclaimed editor of a truly impressive amount of genre anthologies, including … Continue reading

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Boneyards by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

Boneyards by Kristine Kathryn Rusch is the sequel to Diving into the Wreck and City of Ruins, two excellent novels featuring a memorable character who specializes in exploring derelict space vessels and who simply goes by the name “Boss.” The … Continue reading

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Thief’s Covenant by Ari Marmell

Thief’s Covenant is the story of Widdershins, a young woman formerly known as Adrienne Satti, who grew up an orphan on the streets of Davillon, escaped poverty to join the city’s powerful aristocracy in a rags-to-riches story, and then shockingly … Continue reading

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Fifty Page Fridays: Fair Coin by E.C. Myers

Fifty Page Fridays is a regular feature here at Far Beyond Reality, meant to highlight books I usually wouldn’t cover in a regular review. In each post, I start off by explaining why I wasn’t planning to review the book. … Continue reading

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My Mind Was Melded + Giveaway Winners!

A few quick announcements today: – I was recently invited to participate in one of SF Signal‘s Mind Melds, something I found incredibly flattering as it’s such a great series of posts. The Mind Meld in question was published yesterday, … Continue reading

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The Straits of Galahesh by Bradley Beaulieu

My path to Bradley Beaulieu’s writings was probably different from most people’s: I discovered him only recently through Strata, the excellent science fiction novella he co-wrote and self-published with Stephen Gaskell (reviewed here). I enjoyed Strata so much that I … Continue reading

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After the Fall, Before the Fall, During the Fall by Nancy Kress

In the year 2035, all that’s remaining of humanity is a group of twenty-six people who live in the Shell, an enclosure built two decades ago by the alien race known as the Tesslies when an environmental cataclysm made our … Continue reading

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Meanwhile at the Discussion Group: April 2012

The name of this blog was inspired by the Beyond Reality discussion group, which has been around for almost two decades and which I’ve been managing for more than half of that time. The group is currently housed at GoodReads … Continue reading

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