Category Archives: Books
Guest Kat Cantrell: Aliens or elves?
I have a confession to make. I grew up reading science fiction and fantasy and I honestly didn’t see the difference. From Dragonlance, to Justine Dare, Robert Asprin, to Eve and Rourke, I loved it all. They both had amazing worlds, fierce battles, the hero’s (and heroine’s!) journey. Who cared whether the characters were aliens […]
Science Fiction Romance
Let me start where it all began. In my dad’s book collection. Like any good dad, he made sure to build my Nancy Drew collection and when the time came, Jane Austen and the Brontes, but he also gave me hard cover Stephen Kings for birthdays and Christmases when I got to my teens. But […]
Borderline – Free SF Novella on Kindle
Because there’s nothing like a blast of SF adrenaline to get an author’s creative juices flowing. I pretty much ground to a halt last year, toiling away on a hugely complicated steampunk project that sapped my stamina to nought. So I decided to take a month off to write something just for fun—a stripped-down, hell-for-leather getaway chase across an […]
Titanic…In Spaaaaaace: “Wreck of the Nebula Dream” by Veronica Scott
When Veronica Scott’s sci-fi novel, ‘Wreck of the Nebula Dream’ released in March, 2012, it came at an interesting time for me. This book is loosely based on the story of the Titanic disaster. At the time, my youngest boy was studying this in school and had become quite obsessed with the story, requiring multiple […]
Happy 20th Anniversary, Babylon 5
I wouldn’t be here now if the pilot for Babylon 5 hadn’t aired on February 22, 1993. The show spawned six television films and a spin-off series, Crusade, and garnered two Hugo awards, a Saturn award for Best Genre Cable/Syndicated Series, the E Pluribus Unum award for best TV drama series, several primetime Emmy nominations and one […]
Alienation in Science Fiction
Let’s face it, the final frontier is pretty lonely. The closer we get to the stars, the father we get from home. The more “plugged in” to our technology we become, the more isolated we feel. The more answers we find, the more questions we raise. It’s the ultimate alienation, which is one of the […]
The Year to Come: J.L. Hilton
In many ways, 2012 dazzled me. My debut novel Stellarnet Rebel released in January and the sequel Stellarnet Prince followed in November. I attended my first science fiction convention, Illogicon, and went on to participate in StellarCon, ConCarolinas, ConTemporal, Escapist Expo, NC Spec Fiction Night and the Geek Gala. As “author J.L. Hilton” I sponsored […]
Cyberpunking It Up – Looking ahead to 2013, Part Deux
Part of my goals this year as preparation for moving to California (assuming it happens) has been to weed through my book collection. I have several hundred reference books and a couple thousand paperbacks. Most of them I moved down here from Toronto (my husband moved about 30 comic boxes & several hundred hard cover […]
Another New Author
Hello Everyone! I’ve just joined Contact Infinite Futures as a new Carina Press author! I joined in November with a contract for my New Adult sci-fi series Bloodstones. I’m pretty excited about it. Book 1 is currently called Glass Boots and you could think of it as a sort of sci-fi Cinderella. Here’s the […]
