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Credit: Pixabay Today we have another guest blogger! May I introduce to you author Elizabeth Mueller ! I’m very grateful for Elizabeth to be with us this post. She is, as she puts it, “a diehard romance” writer yet has also written and published in other fiction genres, including science fiction and fantasy. She’s currently working on a dystopian sci fi / fantasy / romance novel which she’ll be sharing with us a segment from. Both a full-time author and a homeschooling mom of five kids, Elizabeth has contributed to several science fiction anthologies, including steampunk, while still writing in her favourite genre. Let me not delay any longer: here’s Elizabeth discussing her writer’s journey from speculative fiction to realist fiction, to romance!  Guest Blogger: Elizabeth Mueller Thank you for having me over at your lovely place, Steven! You’ve asked if I could talk about speculative fiction. To be honest, I’ve always wondered what that was and never tried to understand it as I’ve...

Credit: Pixabay I apologise for another late posting but there was a birthday in the family on Saturday and I wasn’t able to get this post done in time.  To me science fiction is not only fun entertainment but also a warning against dangerous futures and an encouragement for hopeful ones. Dystopian science fiction does a lot of the former, or at least the good ones do. Yet it’s too easy, especially with blockbuster films, to look at science fiction too much as escapist entertainment and not enough for the warnings it poses. An example of this is the controversy over the new TV series that debuts September 26, "Ring Nation”. There’s been a lot of concern that shows like this blur the demarcation line between entertainment and reality which is something that much science fiction literature, film and television have warned against. They are warnings that we mustn’t take too lightly.  The ’Ring Nation’ Controversy "Ring Nation" is a new reality TV series by Amazon and MGM th...