http://infinitybound.com Take the first step Thu, 26 May 2011 12:30:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_1401" align="aligncenter" width="210" caption="SF Signal: Reading Science Fiction"][/caption] In its ongoing service to humanity at large and sci-fi-loving  humanity in particular, SF Signal (Twitter: @sfsignal) presents an excellent "getting started guide" for those who have an interest in all or some part of the meta-genre but may have been put ... http://infinitybound.com/index.php/2011/05/14/sf-signal-how-to-start-reading-science-fiction/ "As soon as I was out of the hospital I went to see her. [An aunt who stopped believing in gravity.] I was still weak, still separated by a great unmeasured gulf from the world, from anyone who has no serious doubts about rising whole the next morning and who ... http://infinitybound.com/index.php/2011/04/29/the-money-quote-certain-distant-suns-joanne-greenberg/ Click on over to any of these fine blogs listed below for the full reviews and see what people are saying about KiTE. Or just go ahead and buy it by clicking this: KiTE is hard science fiction with heart. The Book Connection (interview) The Bec-ster "This storyline is so new it just ... http://infinitybound.com/index.php/2011/03/26/kite-rollicking-sci-fi-book-blog-tour-update/ According to this reviewer. And of course we would tend to agree. http://infinitybound.com/index.php/2011/03/22/confirmed-shears-a-deft-touch-kite-a-rollicking-sci-fi/ Haven't read KiTE yet? What are you waiting for? KiTE is hard sci-fi with heart. Check these sites for reviews, a Shears interview, commenting and at least one giveaway at these book-loving blogs, starting about now and ongoing for a few weeks: [caption id="attachment_1375" align="aligncenter" width="246" caption="KiTE: Hard Sci-Fi with Heart"][/caption] 3/19 ... http://infinitybound.com/index.php/2011/03/16/kite-book-blog-tour-schedule/ The Doppelganger Song: With their long relationship on the verge of collapse, security consultant Frank and psychologist Holly team up as paranormal investigators. A teacher at an old private girls' school in The Bronx, NY, has been severely injured. Was it a suicide attempt or is ... http://infinitybound.com/index.php/2011/03/07/paranormal-mystery-the-doppelganger-song/ Here's the cover of our next release, in all e-book formats... THE DOPPELäNGER SONG. Frank and Holly's first case. With their long relationship on the verge of collapse, security consultant Frank and psychologist Holly team up as paranormal investigators. A teacher at an old private girls' school ... http://infinitybound.com/index.php/2011/03/01/the-doppelganger-song-coming-soon/ [caption id="attachment_1339" align="aligncenter" width="328" caption="Edmond O'Brien and Donald Pleasence speak in 1984, from 1956"][/caption] Two of the great literary dystopian novels rework the language itself to accomplish a keen disconnect with the contemporary reader's known world. This high neologisticism (Itself a neologism. Neologed by me, just now.) has an effect that ... http://infinitybound.com/index.php/2011/02/22/dystopian-lexicographies-1984-and-a-clockwork-orange/ [caption id="attachment_1320" align="aligncenter" width="316" caption="Poster from the Roger Corman film starring Vincent Price"][/caption] On the 202nd anniversary of Edgar Allen Poe's birth, below is a well done short film of his "The Masque of the Red Death", first published, according to my The Portable Poe, in Graham's Magazine, May 1842. Here's the ... http://infinitybound.com/index.php/2011/01/19/post-apocalyptic-poe-the-masque-of-the-red-death/ Caught a bit of the Twilight Zone marathon on SyFy the other night, as we do every year. Lucky enough to see a couple episodes we hadn't seen before, or hadn't seen in a long long time and didn't remember. Luckily the famous episode "The After Hours", with Anne Francis as ... http://infinitybound.com/index.php/2011/01/03/twilight-zone-mirror-image-rip-anne-francis/