Everyone loves an underdog, and nothing defines an underdog like success in the face of constant rejection. Philip K Dick, one of 20th century’s biggest names in science fiction, once received 17 rejection letters in a single day. According to urban legend, he wallpapered half of his study with rejection slips during the 1950s. He was far from the only one. Here’s the […]

Co-authors and husband and wife team Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris, have been writing together for the last five years. Their most recent release is the steampunk mystery The Diamond Conspiracy. Below, they share a few of the inspirations for their alternate history world. 

School’s out for the year, the weather has broken into full blown summer, all mosquitoes and sunburn, and I’ve become intensely nostalgic for summer vacation, those long months when I was made out of nothing but time. Man, but did I get some reading done, huddled in front of a fan on those days it […]

Back in 1995, Stephen Baxter wrote a sequel to H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine. Unthinkable, right? But The Time Ships, a temporal saga that dwarfs the original in size and scope but stays true to its spirit of exploration, proved he was a writer capable of not just honoring an all-time classic, but of injecting it with […]