Finished reading Steven Espada Dawson's "Late To The Search Party: Poems." amzn.to/4uGJDuN 📖⏰🔎 This was a very strong collection and, I hope, the first of many. #books #reading #poems #poetry @scribnerbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #PoetrySky

Started reading Camille Bordas' "One Sun Only: Stories." amzn.to/3Q0XSdV 📖🌞 Been waiting since 2017 — when I read "Most Die Young" in "The New Yorker" — for a collection of her #ShortStories... #books #reading #ShortStory #BookSky

Finished reading Thomas Ha's "Uncertain Sons And Other Stories." amzn.to/4nXAE4h 📖🖊️ This was a really impressive collection of #horror, #Weird, and #SciFi #ShortStories. Hope to read more of his fiction soon. #books #ShortStory #WeirdHorror #Horror #ScienceFiction @thomasha.bsky.social #BookSky

Started reading Steven Espada Dawson's "Late To The Search Party: Poems." amzn.to/4uGJDuN 📖⏰🔎 Really effective so far, especiall the #poems about his brother. #books #reading #poetry @scribnerbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #PoetrySky

Finished reading "The Collected Poetry Of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998." amzn.to/4hy3Law 📖🖊️ Not a huge fan of what she did at the end, structurally speaking, but that doesn't diminish the power her #poems displayed throughout this collection. #books #reading #poetry #BookSky #PoetrySky

In the trailer for #SpiderManBrandNewDay, Bruce Banner is sportin' an inhibitor to keep from Hulking out. But is he trying to look spiffy, or does this have larger implications for the MCU? Raymond, Mac, and I discuss this in the new episode of "RPad TV 3000." www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaiP... 🦸🦹‍♂️🦸‍♀️

Hey, did you see #ProjectHailMary and are now thinking you might want to read the book, but you'd like to know more? Good news everybody! Here's the link to my interview with Andy Weir from 2021 about that #SciFi novel. Enjoy! paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🧑‍🚀🪨

In Moroccan culture, Aicha Kandicha is essentially their version of the boogeyman. But as author Soraya Bouazzaoui explains in this exclusive interview about her semi-historical / epic romantic #fantasy novel "Aicha," that's not her whole story... paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🇲🇦

Started reading Octavia E. Butler's "Lilith's Brood" a.k.a. "The Xenogenesis Trilogy." amzn.to/4q0V8KQ 📖🌍👽 Already fascinated by this inventive first contact / "humans as experiments" story. #books #reading #ScienceFiction #SciFi #BookSky

Noir crime stories are not restricted by time and space. Just ask author Harold Goldberg, who, in this interview about his Polish noir mystery novel "The Skinny," talks about why he set it in the '90s, and not the usual '40s or '50s. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🕵️

Finished reading Isaac Asimov's "The Naked Sun: The Robot Series." amzn.to/47UPqTB 📖🤖 More a #SciFi murder mystery — and on a planet of germophobic hermits — than a robot story, but still engaging. #books #reading #ScienceFiction #BookSky

Started reading Isaac Asimov's "The Naked Sun: The Robot Series." amzn.to/47UPqTB 📖🤖 This #SciFi murder mystery is made even more interesting by it being set on a planet with an odd inter-personal culture. #books #reading #ScienceFiction #BookSky

Finished reading M.R. Carey's "Outlaw Planet." amzn.to/3YSljHv 📖🪐🔫 Prefer my Western-flavored #ScienceFiction to be more #SciFi that Westerly (it's more "Westword" than "Firefly"). And yet, Bess was such a bad ass I couldn't help but be engaged. #books #reading #BookSky

Started reading Avan Jogia's "Autopsy (of an ex-teen heartthrob): Poems." amzn.to/4bmrHOD 📖😷🔪📺🎬 Am a little concerned that, at 220+ pages, the "Fear And Loathing In Hollywood" vibe might be a bit much, but so far, I'm intrigued. #books #reading #poems #poetry #BookSky #PoetrySky

The weekend is here, and here's your assignment: Watch #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy. Es may bueno. Then, when you're done, watch Raymond and I talk about it in our somewhat spoiler discussion from this week's episode of "RPad TV 3000." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEcM... 📺🚀👽🖖

Let the buyer beware: In author Ava Morgyn's new #DarkFantasy / #CosmicHorror novel "Only Spell Deep," a woman finds something ominous in a book store...and things get darker from there. To find out more, check out this exclusive interview. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🪄🌊🔥😴

Finished reading Rae Armantrout's "Conjure: Poems." amzn.to/3MiIsjD 📖🖊️ Her stuff is always so good...and so uniquely hers. #books #reading #poems #poetry #BookSky #PoetrySky

Not everyone liked #StarTrekStarfleetAcademy. And some of them actually had legitimate reasons, not bullshit "STAR TREK HAS GONE WOKE" crap. Me? I liked it. Come hear why when I join Ramond for tonight's episode of "RPad TV 3000" on YouTube. www.youtube.com/live/TEcMyfp... 📺🚀👽🖖

In Thomas Bulen Jacobs' new #cyberpunk #ScienceFiction novella "Cyberscion," a stolen katana must be retrieved, lest it force a change in a clan's leadership. To learn more, check out this exclusive interview. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🥷⚔️

I loved the first three #SpiderMan movies with Tom Holland, and I am really, really curious to see where things go with #SpiderManBrandNewDay. Here's the first trailer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TZM... 📽️🕷️

In my new interview with authors Josh Eure and Craig Lincoln — two-fifths of Darkly Lem — they talk about their new #SciFi spy novel "Transmentation | Transgression," the second book in "The Formation Saga" trilogy. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🧠🧠

In my new interview with authors Josh Eure and Craig Lincoln — two-fifths of Darkly Lem — they talk about their new #SciFi spy novel "Transmentation | Transgression," the second book in "The Formation Saga" trilogy. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🧠🧠

Was already excited for "Dune: Part 3," and this first trailer does not disappoint... www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_9v... 📽️🏜️🚀

With "Children Of Strife," author Adrian Tchaikovsky is continuing the hard #ScienceFiction series "Children Of Time" that he launched with the titular novel in 2015. To learn more about this story and saga, check out this exclusive interview. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🚀🪐

In Lai Sanders' new revenge thriller "The Plans I Have For You," a woman whose life was blown up by a regrettable incident turned viral video meets someone who can help her...or can she? To find out more, check out this exclusive interview. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖📱🫢

Rush have reissued their 1984 album "Grace Under Pressure," and it has two versions of the album, plus a complete concert. But at $300+ for the CDs or LPs, it's a lot to ask. Is it worth it? Here's my review of Rush's "Grace Under Pressure" (Super Deluxe Edition)" paulsemel.com/rush-grace-u... 🎶🎸🥁🎹💿

The old school first-person shooter #StarshipTroopersUltimateBugWar is basically the game Id would've made if they made a #StarshipTroopers game in 1997. Would you like to know more? Then check out my review. paulsemel.com/starship-tro... 🎮🔫🪲

Started reading M.R. Carey's "Outlaw Planet." amzn.to/3YSljHv 📖🪐🔫 So far this is bit more Western-y than I usually like in my #SciFi Westerns, but I trust Carey to do the right thing, so... #books #reading #ScienceFiction @orbitbooks.bsky.social #BookSky

Finished reading Shaun Hamill's "Alien: Perfect Organisms." amzn.to/4swKGfZ 📖👾 One of the better "Alien" stories, in part because of its tightness; in part because of its implications; and in part because of its "Prometheus" connections. #ScienceFiction #SciFi #horror @shaunhamill.bsky.social

In my new interview with author Tao Wong, we talk about what's been added to the new hardcover edition of his #SecondWorld #fantasy novel "The First Step," the first book in his "A Thousand Li" series. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖⚔️

In my new interview with author Travis S. Taylor, he not only talks about his new action thriller hard #SciFi novel "Apogee," the second in a trilogy, but also how this series might go backwards... paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🖊️

I get why some people have a problem with it, but I liked #StarfleetAcademy. Sure, it was different, but the cast was great (Zoe, Kerrice, Gina...), it had a bunch of good episodes (S.A.M.'s; the last one), and was just solidly #StarTrek. That is also pissed off the right people was a bonus. 📺🚀🪐👽🖖

Started reading Rae Armantrout's "Conjure: Poems." amzn.to/3MiIsjD 📖🖊️ I always appreciate her economy of language; how she says so much with so few words. #books #reading #poems #poetry #BookSky #PoetrySky

For his new novel "The Laundryman," author Dwayne Brenna has decided to commit a crime...fictionally speaking. To learn more about this historical fiction / murder mystery novel, check out this exclusive interview. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🔎🩸

In my new interview with author Chris Panatier about his new #fantasy #horror / #DarkFantasy novel "Daytide," he calls it a "Black Metal Wizard Of Oz," says it involves a psychological pandemic, and also admits, "It goes gonzo from there." paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🫲🦠

Started reading Shaun Hamill's "Alien: Perfect Organisms." amzn.to/4swKGfZ 📖👾 Only got as far as the basic set-up; I think the payoff isn't going to go well (though it would be much of an "Alien" story if it did). #books #reading #ScienceFiction #SciFi #horror #BookSky

Read Safia Elhillo's "Home Is Not A Country" tonight. amzn.to/4iGfTbL 📖🖊️ Don't know which I liked more: the best individual poems or how well they fit together in this novel-in-verse. Either way, strong stuff. #books #reading #poems #poetry #BookSky #PoetrySky

Welcome to my Ted Talk. Today, I would like to talk about season two. Joining me are Mac and Raymond. Please be sure to take notes; there will be a quiz. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-If9... 📺🧸🌿

No one likes babies. Especially when they just show up uninvited. So imagine if one did that on a cruise ship in outer space? You don't have to; author Olivia Waite did the work for you. In this Q&A, Waite talks about her new #SciFi #mystery novel, "Nobody's Baby." paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🕵️‍♀️🔎👶

Before Constantine, Fox Mulder, or Scooby-doo, strange things were investigated by E. and H. Heron's iconic shamus Flaxman Low. In my new interview with editor Alexander B. Joy, he talks about assembling the #ShortStory collection, "Flaxman Low: Occult Detective." paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🔎👻

Finished rereading Douglas Adams' "The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" series. amzn.to/4aQLHaB 📖🚀🐬🐁🐁👽 Aside from a handful of references — like towels, which no one uses anymore — this hasn't aged a bit. Still so clever. #books #reading #ScienceFiction #SciFi #BookSky

Finished reading Amy Gerstler's "Nerve Storm: Poems." amzn.to/4pkhWEV 📖🖊️ Liked the ones at the beginning more than the ones at the end, though that's more about what she was writing about than how she wrote them. #books #reading #poems #poetry #BookSky #PoetrySky

Thoughts on the new season of #Ted. Like the first, the new adventures are just as weird and funny, and in a very Seth McFarlane kind of way. For more of what I liked (and didn't), come watch me, Mac, and Raymond give a Ted Talk tonight at 6PM PST. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-If9...

In my new interview with author Philip Schultz about his new #poetry collection "Enormous Morning," he said the #poems in it were exploring, "...the essential role my mother and women have played in my life." paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🌄

Fifty million people died from The Black Plague in the 1300s...and more will die from it again unless Joe Ledger can stop it. In my new interview with author Jonathan Maberry, we discuss the new "Joe Ledger"/"Rogue Team International" novel, "Red Empire." paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖🕵️🔫🦠

Started reading Amy Gerstler's "Nerve Storm: Poems." amzn.to/4pkhWEV 📖🖊️ Fifth book of hers I've read (and cool, she has five more). #books #reading #poems #poetry #BookSky #PoetrySky

Finished reading Roya Marsh's "dayliGht: Poems." amzn.to/4pVL19O 📖☀️ As impressive as their other #poetry collection. I'm hoping there's not just the two. #books #reading #poems @fsgbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #PoetrySky

When you call a novel "DeathCon: A Zombie Story," it sets certain expectations. But in this exclusive Q&A with "DeathCon" author Nzodi, he says that while the title of his Gothic psychological horror novel is the technically truth, "It's just not the whole truth." paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 🧟📖🧟‍♀️⛴️🧟‍♂️

I am very excited for #Pragmata, which is now coming out a week earlier, April 17th. Here's the new trailer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSjX... 🎮🧑‍🚀

For her new novel "The Last Starborn Seer," author Venetia Constantine set her epic romantic #fantasy story in a world that, "...has been with me for as long as I can remember." To find out what that looks like, check out this exclusive interview. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖💫