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Hello readers! This month’s Graggonspeak has a smattering of essential genre news and fiction recommendations. This month’s Graggonspeak is a little different than normal because I was on the tips of my toes and on the go quite a bit last month. My partner and I welcomed our daughter into...

David Brin, in his foreword to the book Earth, shared the challenge he felt writing science fiction that takes place fifty years into our future. Within ten years real world events can turn an interesting read into a joke, as the author finds they took a left while the technology...

Will we experience mind reading within our lifetime?  TLDR: Yes. In the fifties, our intrepid science fiction writers focused more on the consequences of reading minds than exploring the science behind mind reading.  Consider the classic trope: a society attempting to cope with a select few who possess the ability...

FELICIA MARTINEZ & ALINA MĂCIUCĂ vs DANI J. CAILE & ELAD HABER 3 ELEMENTS MEET YOUR CHAMPIONS DANI J. CAILE After a lifetime of reading clones and a decade of proofreading coffee table books, Dani J. Caile has completed a handful of novels, such as “The Rage of Atlantis”, “Manna-X”,...

LYDIA PRIME & A.F. STEWART vs JOSHUA E. BORGMANN & DAVID NIALL WILSON 3 ELEMENTS MEET YOUR CHAMPIONS LYDIA PRIME Lydia Prime is just the monster under your bed waiting for you to stick a limb out from beneath the covers. When she’s not trying to shred scraps of humanity...

Welcome to Graggonspeak Monthly! This column has two purposes: to shine a light on select short fiction and poetry from the genre field and to share genre related news and commentary. The bigger sibling to this column, Graggonspeak Quarterly, appears in Space & Time Magazine’s regular publications and focuses on...

Tell us about yourself. Are you a writer, reader or a hybrid? Tell us about what you like to read and write? I read Space and Time, and I also write speculative fiction (at least, I try). How did you come to be a first reader at Space and Time? I had...

TAKE TWO ON THE MOVIES by Daniel M. Kimmel There’s an old Hollywood joke that it’s a town where everyone is first in line to be second. Being original is risky. Being the first to try to replicate a surprise hit often is not. This can be seen by the...