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 Looking forward to 2025 and my writing goals for this next year, I'm really excited about a new project that I'm going to be hosting right here on this blog, I'm calling it STRANGE AEONS and its going to be an exploration of speculative fiction as well as the direction that speculative fiction itself is going in. My goals for 2025 are humble but chief among them is going to be actually getting things finished and released to the wilds of the world. STRANGE AEONS is one of the ways that I'm going to seek to do that. I plan to write and publish at least one short story a week or so. There will be big hits and big misses but that's show biz, baby!  Speculative fiction, I think is so important because it asks us not just what the future looks like, we can already sort of see that in the direction that life in general seems to be going. I think speculative fiction asks us a more important question. What is our place  in the future? We analyze this place by asking a lot ...

 There's only four days left in the year! Can I get my 'Books Read This Year' number up to 64? I'm going to admit that I fell off the book tracking wagon and have decided that in the new year that I'm only going to focus on tracking them for my own needs, in a nice, cozy spreadsheet.  I'll probably still talk about the books that I've read but I'm not going to go all in on the social reading thing. I'll be setting my base goal as always, to 50 books per year and the idea of tracking them is at the very least to make sure that I don't end up reading the same things multiple times.  I'm going to attempt to squeeze in one more Terry Pratchett novel and I'm going to take a crack at Reaper Man, this is the 11th book in the series and follows along DEATH as he finds himself in search of a new job. I'm sure it'll be just as enjoyable as the others have been. I've been told that the later Pratchett novels are the best, but I'm hav...