Astonishing Worlds | BLOG | Nicolas Lemieux, Science Fiction Author

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Apr 25
5 min

Foundation's Fear by Gregory Benford

Brace for impact! Foundation's Fear delivers treat after treat.

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Mar 15
4 min

Rain and Mud: Intense Dark Fantasy by E.J. Wenstrom

No matter how elating or painful, the raw emotions wrench your insides, deeply, intimately, in an earthy, down-to-earth and realistic way.

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Feb 22
6 min

What Do I Expect? And Why English?

I invited a friend over to my newsletter, and he asked me this: “What are your expectations?

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Feb 8
3 min

House of Suns: Galactic-Scale Fun and Poetry

Six million years ago, Abigail Gentian cloned herself—she fractured herself into a thousand male and female clones. Shatterlings...

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Jan 25
6 min

Genesis of my Novel

Sometimes I like to dabble with new ideas. Maybe it was during my morning pages, maybe not. Something new seemed to appear out of the ether.

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Jan 10
6 min

Anathem, by Neal Stephenson

Let me start by saying right out of the gate how much I did appreciate this book: greatly. I consider it one of my all-time favourites.

1971

Jan 2
2 min

My Glider MVP Website

You gotta start somewhere. This is where I start. Here's a screenshot so we may look back later on, and see what the site was like in the

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