100 Top SF & Fantasy Books, These fantastic Worlds, Philip K Dick

100 SF & Fantasy Books. Galactic Pot-Healer. Philip K. Dick.

Philip K. Dick. Just his name conjures excitement and imagination. There are so many books and short stories to choose from his extensive, brilliant output, but this The Galactic Pot-Healer is the one I remember with great fondness from a particularly creative period in my life when I painted, wrote, played in my first bands, and earned enough money to …

Top 100 SF and Fantasy Books, These Fantastic Worlds, Jake Jackson

Top 100 SF & Fantasy Books. Rebel Worlds. Poul Anderson.

Poul Anderson is a seriously under-rated sf writer. If you want aliens, spaceships, intergalactic adventures, then he’s your man. He wrote a great deal of fantasy (including a pretty decent Conan the Rebel story in 1980), having been born in 1926 just as the Golden Age of pulp magazines began to influence a generations of school kids. He wrote dozens …

Short Story, podcast, Hoshiko, These Fantastic Worlds, Jake Jackson, writing prompt

Micro-fiction 021 – Hoshiko (Echoes series)

Every night, just before she went to bed, the little girl opened the secret drawer. Inside, the creature stirred: things were about to change. Another short fantasy story from Jake Jackson’s These Fantastic Worlds.

Short Story, podcast, Butterfly, These Fantastic Worlds, Jake Jackson

Micro-fiction 020 – Butterfly (Robot series)

The last butterfly, the final robot, an eternal experiment that might turn the dreams of colossal machines into solid time and space. Another tale from These Fantastic Worlds, Jake Jackson’s SF and Fantasy universe.