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Apologies for March going up in April! Instead of our normal SFF short fiction and news chatter this month, we’re sharing an interview I did with Shannon A. Thompson in issue #139/Winter 2020! Things got busier than usual for my household these last few weeks. Graggon Keep may be finding...

From Space & Time, Spring #140

From Space & Time, Spring #140

From Space & Time, Spring #140

Will robots be serving us OJ and French Toast in our lifetime? TLDR: Yes. Most often a writer’s fascination with robots centers around their programming rules or the concept of what it means to be human.  Before we get anywhere near those philosophical questions, we must first conquer the challenges...

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...

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...

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...