Tag Archives: science fiction

The future according to Kim Stanley Robinson

Posted on March 24, 2023 by Bookworm

Award-winning science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, author of more than 20 books, will present “The Future of Climate, Technology, and Society” on March 29 at 7 p.m. in Gasson Hall, room 100. Robinson is best known for his Mars … Continue reading →

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Sci-fi story of survival

Posted on June 23, 2022 by Bookworm

When Earth Shall Be No More (Secant Publishing, 2022) is a debut sci-fi thriller from husband and wife writing team Paul Awad and Kathryn O’Sullivan, a Boston College graduate. In their story, environmental scientist Constance Roy is one of 49 … Continue reading →

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Student author Louise Faitar

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Bookworm

Louise Faitar, a sophomore majoring in neuroscience in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences, also is a published author. Her novel, The Evanescence of Fog, is a satirical science fiction/fantasy story that is a comedic yet profound exploration of … Continue reading →

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Out of this world

Posted on August 24, 2017 by Bookworm

Boston College graduate Gina Damico has published Waste of Space (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017), a novel geared for teens and young adults. What comes next in the world of television when it feels like everything has already been done? A … Continue reading →

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Machine Feelings

Posted on July 28, 2016 by Bookworm

Phil Temples, a Computer Science systems administrator, has published a new short story anthology, Machine Feelings and Other Stories (Big Table Publishing, 2016). The volume features some 50 science fiction/fantasy stories from Temples, representing 15 years of writing. Temples is also … Continue reading →

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Tyvian returns

Posted on June 29, 2016 by Bookworm

Science fiction/fantasy author Auston Habershaw, a Boston College alumnus, has published No Good Deed (HarperCollins, 2016), the second book in his “The Saga of the Redeemed” series. No Good Deed continues the story of “criminal mastermind, rogue mage, and smuggler of … Continue reading →

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Saga of the Redeemed

Posted on July 8, 2015 by Bookworm

As Boston College alumnus Auston Habershaw likes to tell it, when you are born on the same day that a NASA space station falls to Earth, you are destined to be supervillain or science fiction/fantasy writer. Habershaw is the latter … Continue reading →

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