List of succubi in fiction Puns

1. Asimov's Science Fiction
2. Apex Magazine
3. Interzone
4. Analog Magazine
5. Strange Horizons
6. Clarkesworld Magazine
7. GUD
8. Fantasy & Science Fiction Magazine
9. TOR Magazine
10. Beneath Ceaseless Skies
11. Uncanny Magazine
12. Fiyah Magazine
13. Lightspeed Magazine
14. Shoreline of Infinity
15. Deep Magic

I'll edit this section as more people add their magazines in the comments section. Also, if you know any podcasts that read Fantasy/ Sci-Fi short stories on the regular, please mention them to.

Sci-Fi:

- Dark Matter and Recursion by Blake Crouch - amazing and emotionally captivating narrators; great sci-fi stories with romance

- The Martian by Andy Weir - great narration; awesome sci-fi story that didn't skimp on the scientific accuracy. The only liberties the author took in realism were to enhance the story.

Non-Fiction (stories & humor):

- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb - excellent, heartfelt narration; stories from a therapist that hit you right in the feels, and make me want to either go to therapy or become a therapist

- Everything Bill Bryson has written

- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman - narration sounded weird at first, but really grew on me; great stories about a great thinker. Interesting perspective on the Manhattan Project as well.

- The Game & The Truth by Neil Strauss - great narration by the author; the story of his decade long adventures as a pickup artist, followed by his realization that he wanted something more

Non-fiction (educational):

- Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark - great narration; a book that breaks down possible far futures of AI. The most interesting book I've ever read

- Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance - great narration; interesting account of some of the lesser-known parts of Musk's life that lead to his success

So Pet Sematary will be listed as composed circa 1979 instead of 1983 when it was published, or the short story The Old Dude's Ticker will be listed circa 1971-72 when it was written instead of 2000 when it was first published.

I'm reading The Hobbit, and soon, the Lord of the Rings, and it just crossed my mind that I don't even know what a "bank" or a "brush" or a "brook" is.

These basic geographical terms always go over my head and it's very hard for me to imagine Tolkein's world without understanding them in the back of my mind. I notice this a lot when reading books that have a lot of imagery in them. My vocabulary on this stuff is horrible.

Anyone have a good list of these terms (and their definitions) to help me out? Thanks.

Stumbled upon this Goodreads 'review' by the excellent Manny Rayner (his reviews and choice of literature could fit right in here). All credit goes to him, give him a like on Goodreads.

I don't know why I never thought of this before, but it occurred to me today that nearly all well-known science-fiction novels should be listed on Google Scholar. And indeed they are! It's kind of interesting to see which ones have been cited most. After an hour or so of clicking, here's a preliminary top list:

George Orwell, 1984: 3925

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World: 3472

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, 1349

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five: 853

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged: 787

H.G. Wells, The Time Machine: 776

Isaac Asimov, I, Robot: 657

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness: 502

H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds: 479

Ursula K. LeGuin, The Dispossessed: 458

Arthur C. Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey: 391

Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land: 362

H.G. Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau: 316

Isaac Asimov, Foundation Trilogy: 298

Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle: 292

C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength: 264

Frank Herbert, Dune: 243

Jules Verne, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: 213

Ursula K. LeGuin, A Wizard of Earthsea: 213

Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano: 209

L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The modern science of mental health: 195

Isaac Asimov, Runaround: 194

Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood's End: 189

Philip K. Dick, The Man in the High Castle: 189

Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game: 181

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 176

Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, 163

Philip K. Dick, Minority Report: 161

John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider: 159

Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass: 159

Robert A. Heinlein, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress: 153

Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon: 146

Olaf Stapledon, Last and First Men & Star Maker: 143

Kurt Vonnegut, Harrison Bergeron: 143

The Fantasy Inn just posted this to twitter, so I asked them if I could share. Because it's freaking awesome.

So it's a list of the usual SFF subgenres, but this time written by authors of colour (defined as "nonwhite persons living in a country in which they are a racial minority.")

Plus, they helpfully did it as a flowchart of bookcovers, but also a list with links to Amazon and Goodreads.

What I've read from this list:

Beloved - Okay, I confess, I didn't like this one! Granted, it might be because it was assigned reading and it was presented by my prof as "You will either love this, or grow to appreciate this the way it deserves to be loved." And then something snide about how only people with true taste could like the book, which sounded like a challenge to 18-year-old me! So, I probably should re-read it to see if my opinion has changed with time and not having it assigned as homework.

Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope - I really enjoyed this book. It does a great balance between standard romance language within a standard fantasy setting. It's a difficult fence to straddle, and risks alienating both sides, but I think she did a fabulous job writing both the romance and the fantasy, and never compromising either aspect for the other.

The Sorcerer of Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson - Another confession - this was a DNF for me. If you love prose, though, this is pretty much required reading I think.

What on the list have you read? Anything you're planning to read?

What are some diverse and random non fiction books, both in publication date and topic, that are great for expanding general critical thinking or are transformative?

In the argument for this POV is the knowledge that the equivalent of AI today often doesn't behave as planned because bugs are impossible to eliminate. Given the nearly infinite complexity of the human mind, doesn't Asimov's zeroth law become impossible to inact? After all, one can easily come up with problems that will lead to the laws being violated even under the best intentions of the robots. Take a robot assigned to protect a human from vicious debt collectors. In order to protect the human, the robot must be willing to harm the debt collectors. If the robot was to make the money to pay off the debt, it might be asked to serve the gangster debt collectors indefinitely to prevent its human from being hurt. The gangsters would soon see an advantage to having robots work to earn money from the and therefore work extra hard to entrap even more humans so that robots are assigned to help the out of the mess. Thus no1, by the robots very existence they would be harming human kind and thus would be forced to self destruct all thinking robots to comply with law 0. However in self destructing, the robots would have to realize they would put the humans already in debt into harms way. Thus it is fairly easy to think of a problem in which the robots could not live up to Asimov's Laws. Add bugs and viruses to the mixture and on really starts to wonder whether intelligent robots will ever be possible to introduce to humankind.

Silver Linings Playbook disappointed many of us with its depiction of (possible) bipolar disorder. With the help of the internet, I found this master list of bipolar disorder in fiction!

So, to whom it may concern: Bipolar disorder in fiction

Note: I haven't even scratched the surface of these, so maybe they're as disappointing as Silver Linings Playbook, haha.

https://www.bookbub.com/blog/best-sci-fi-book-series

Not a terrible list but by listing the Hunger Games series they lose all credibility. Not terrible but certainly not among fourteen best series of all time.

Made me curious what others might list. My own would go (roughly in order)

1. Foundation series
2. Robot series (yes, I know they kinda go together)
3. Dune (Frank Herbert books only)
4. The Dark Tower (borderline fantasy, I know)
5. The Expanse series
6. Ender's Game series
7. Connie Willis's time travel series
8. Mars trilogy by KSR
9. Hitchhiker's Guide series 10 Frontlines series
10. Old Man's War series
11. Forever War series
12. Foreigner series
13. Pern series
14. Ringworld series
15. Alliance-Union series (C.J. Cherryh)

Honorable mention because I haven't read Culture series Vorkosigan series Heechee saga Hyperion saga

I have wanted to write a fanfic about my custom chapter for a while, but one of the things that has stopped me ( other than my abysmal grasps of the English language and poor grammar skills) is the various technical terms for stuff

By this I mean like the names of the various stations on a ships bridge, as well as any other technical terms for weapons, armour, factions, pretty much anything and everything

I know a few like strategium and stuff, but the majority of it escapes me, I have looked around but haven't really found any lists online

Does anyone know of a list thats floating around, any little helps really

Thanks in advance y'all, you are a great bunch! :)

OFFERING:

New movies are in bold.

iTunes

• 47 Ronin HD (Ports to MA)
• Annihilation 4K
• Bumblebee 4K
• Gladiator 4K
• Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Unrated) HD
• The Hunger Games 4K
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 4K
• Kubo and the Two Strings HD (Ports to MA)
• Mission Impossible: Fallout 4K
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol 4K
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol HD
• Star Trek Into Darkness HD
• Top Gun HD
• Trading Places HD
• Transformers: Age of Extinction HD
• Transformers: The Last Knight 4K

MA

• Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice HD (Theatrical and Ultimate Edition)
• Colombiana HD (Unrated)
• Day After Tomorrow HD
• The Fate of the Furious 4K (Theatrical)
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle HD
• Leon: The Professional HD (Theatrical and Extended Cut)
• Life of Pi 4K
• Pacific Rim HD
• Pacific Rim Uprising HD
• Ready Player One HD
• Spider-Man Homecoming HD
• Spider-Man Homecoming 4K

Vudu

• Crimson Peak HD
• The Expendables Collection (1-3) HD
• Hellboy 2: The Golden Army HD
• King Kong 4K
• Pulp Fiction HD
• Transformers: Age of Extinction HD
• Van Helsing 4K
• xXx: Return of Xander Cage HD

Disney/Marvel

• Big Hero 6 HD (MA)
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 HD (GP)
• Need for Speed HD (GP)
• Need for Speed HD (MA)

Canadian Codes

• Hellboy 2: The Golden Army HD (GP Canada) - From a 4K disc, so GP should upgrade it to 4K.
• Deadpool HD (iTunes or GP)
• Logan HD (iTunes or GP)
• X-Men: Days of Future Past HD (iTunes or GP)
• The Fifth Element (Sony UV)
• Leon: The Professional HD (Theatrical/Extended Cut) (Sony UV)

WANT:

• Vudu credit
• 3:10 to Yuma 4K (Vudu)
• Blade Trinity HD
• Count of Monte Cristo HD
• Fast & Furious 4K
• Fast Five 4K
• Indiana Jones Collection HD
• Lost in Translation HD
• True Grit HD
• Wes Anderson movies (The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Darjeeling Limited, etc)
• X-Men: The Last Stand 4K

Will listen to offers for other movies, but only in HD/4K quality. Interested in old and new movies.

I am mostly looking for Abominable and Vudu credits of the unlimited kind since I am maxed in most pre-fixes, but will take a look at lists.

HD Codes

• Pulp Fiction - HD Vudu

HD MA Marvel/Disney Codes

• Sleeping Beauty (1959) - HD MA split
• Lion King 2019 (Live Action) - 4K MA split

HD GP Marvel/Disney Codes

• Star Wars: The Last Jedi - HD MA Split
• Frozen - HD GP - ports to MA
• Little Mermaid - HD GP - ports to MA

iTunes Only

• Gemini Man - 4K

Looking for (in order of priority):

• Vudu Credits
• Little Italy
• Brave Heart - 4K
• Brave - 4K
• Zootopia - 4k
• Ghost in the Shell - 4K
• Others I might not have

This just happened to me with Sword Art Online. I hate when there is a system or a list that is quantified but never completed. It's like someone told you they have a surprise for you later in the day, and you get excited. The anticipation stays throughout the day, until you go to bed and realize there no surprise.

I'd forgotten how tedious it is looking for publishers. While I was at it, I decided to update my list of short fantasy fiction publishers. Over 130 on there now, and it seems a lot of them are open for subs. I wish thee luck!
https://richiebilling.com/list-of-fantasy-publishers-short-fiction/

I've been trying to accumulate a comprehensive directory of everything published by Black Library (beginning with 40k/30k) and been stymied at every turn. The major wikis have frustratingly incomplete lists that include multiple errors. Black Library lists only books that are currently in print, excising older editions of material (for instance, the book "Genestealer Cults" under the Legends of the Dark Millennium label is now referred to only as its reprinted version, "Cult of the Spiral Dawn"). Goodreads and other websites that attempt to catalog by ISBN often ignore short stories.

If this is to be my own dark burden, then so be it, but I figured it best to check with the internet and see if there's something I've missed before I submit myself to an eternity of madness and torment.

OFFERING:

New movies are in bold.

iTunes

• 47 Ronin HD (Ports to MA)
• About Time HD (Ports to MA)
• The Breakfast Club HD (Ports to MA)
• Bumblebee 4K
• G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (XML)
• Gladiator 4K
• Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Unrated) HD
• The Hunger Games 4K
• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 4K
• Mission Impossible: 1 4K
• Mission Impossible: 3 4K
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol 4K
• Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol HD
• Star Trek Into Darkness HD
• Star Trek Beyond HD
• Transformers: Age of Extinction HD
• Transformers: The Last Knight 4K
• World War Z HD

Google Play

• Hellboy 2: The Golden Army HD (GP Canada)

MA

• Day After Tomorrow HD
• Edward Scissorhands HD
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle HD
• Leon: The Professional HD (Theatrical and Extended Cut)
• Man of Steel HD
• Ready Player One HD
• Spider-Man Homecoming HD
• Venom HD

Vudu

• Annihilation 4K
• Jack Reacher HD
• John Wick Double Feature (1 & 2) 4K
• Pet Sematary (1989) 4K
• Pulp Fiction HD
• Transformers: Age of Extinction HD
• Science Fiction 6-Film HD Collection (Universal Soldier / Ender's Game / Total Recall / Stargate / Replicant / Highlander) Highlander: The Source is listed in the bundle, but the original Highlander is what gets redeemed in Vudu.

Disney

• Big Hero 6 HD (MA)
• Mary Poppins (1964) 50th Anniversary Edition HD (MA w/o DMR)
• Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Men Tell No Tales HD (GP)
• Pirates of the Caribbean - Dead Men Tell No Tales HD (MA)

WANT:

• Vudu credit
• 3:10 to Yuma 4K (Vudu)
• Blade Trinity HD
• Count of Monte Cristo HD
• Fast & Furious 4K
• Fast Five 4K
• Indiana Jones Collection HD
• Lost in Translation HD
• True Grit HD
• X-Men: The Last Stand 4K

Will listen to offers for other movies, but only in HD/4K quality. Interested in old and new movies.