Our January Flash Contest was based on our weekly creativity prompt #134, challenging writers to project themselves 100 years into the future. Entrants took us on journeys to other planets, introduced us to amazing futuristic inventions, launched spaceships and created inventive architecture. Like a lot of the best science fiction, our writers used elements of […]
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The True Meaning of Smekday, Reviewed by Pragnya, 12
The True Meaning of Smekday by Adam Rex is not your typical science fiction novel. Sure, it does have some mind-boggling gizmos and gadgets, and your typical alien invasion, but it also has humor, an overload of alien cuteness, a few weird but funny wordplay jokes on an even weirder alien race, and much more […]
The Extraordinary Colors of Auden Dare by Zillah Bethell, Reviewed by Abhi Sukhdial
The Extraordinary Colors of Auden Dare (TECAD) is one of the best books I’ve read in quite a long time. Unlike books like Wonder, it doesn’t just depict the life of a disabled kid who’s initially bullied but then later becomes accepted by society. Instead, it tells an action-packed love story (although it is one […]
