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I'm trying to find good sources for new* scifi content. Google is being extremely unhelpful at finding blogs and I know there have to be a few out there. I'm really focused on games but at this point I would be interested in any writer who covers science fiction content.

Bonus points for any blog that focuses on aliens.

*by new I mean new to me, I dont care if it came out yesterday or 100 years ago

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The only one I know is Bruce Sterling's medium:
https://bruces.medium.com/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't know Bruce Sterling, so I read a few of the articles. Is it a scifi blog? It seems more like a general art and writer sort of thing? I might have not scrolled down far enough.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Starting from the 3rd post, most of them are full stories. But I haven't read everything, so I'm not sure how much of it is really scifi, although he's most known for his cyberpunk stories in the 80s and 90s.

Here you have one I posted previously: “Homo sapiens declared extinct” by Bruce Sterling (1999)

From his wikipedia page:

Michael Bruce Sterling (born April 14, 1954) is an American science fiction author known for his novels and short fiction and editorship of the Mirrorshades anthology. In particular, he is linked to the cyberpunk subgenre.

Sterling's first science-fiction story, Man-Made Self, was sold in 1976. He is the author of science-fiction novels, including Schismatrix (1985), Islands in the Net (1988), and Heavy Weather (1994). In 1992, he published his first non-fiction book, The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier.[1]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ok cool! I figured I was missing something. Thanks for the suggestion :^)

[–] Mbourgon 3 points 1 year ago

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ HTTPS://tor.com https://io9.com

Yes, Tor hypes their own stuff, but they’ll step outside in several of their blogs. James has a LOT of thoughts, and reviews a ton. IO9 isn’t the same since it’s two main editors left to write books, but still has coverage.

Hope this helps.

[–] seaQueue 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Check out the monthly magazines, that's where most authors get their start and you'll find a lot of great fiction there.

Clarkesworld, Lightspeed and Beneath Ceaseless Skies offer their content on the web as well as ebook and print magazine issues - they're my most read these days.

https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/

https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/

https://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/

Neil Clarke also runs a reprint magazine, Forever, which should turn up more previously printed material you likely haven't read.

Edit: This thread from last year is a great "best of" recent Clarkesworld content: https://www.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/11bd333/since_clarkesworld_is_getting_attention_what_are/ - start there, pretty much every story mentioned is excellent.

[–] kwoodall 2 points 1 year ago

AmazingStories.com