PODCAST · fiction
The Cosmic Codex
by Brian Scott Pauls
Living in a science fiction universe... thecosmiccodex.substack.com
Episodes
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What is dark energy?
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INTERVIEW: Phil Drake, Director of the Gunn Center for the Study of Science Fiction
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A critique of Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Children of Ruin"
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“Probability Amplitudes”: Editing in 2026
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What in the worlds is dark matter?
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John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War series wins the Hugo
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A critique of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s “Children of Time”
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“Probability Amplitudes”: Picking up where we left off
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Where is all the antimatter?
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A critique of "The Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith," by Josephine Saxton
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INTERVIEW: Kate Ristau, president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association
Last year, right before I lost my job and suspended this podcast so I could focus on re-inventing my professional career, I recorded this interview with Kate Ristau, president of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. I'm so glad I can share it with you now! ---Do you or someone you...
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Back to our science fiction universe
I'm back! What happened to me last May, and where have I been for a year?---Do you or someone you know need professional tech guidance for your author, coaching, or independent publishing business? If so, check out our sponsor Cloudessy, providing fractional Chief Technology Officer services....
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INTERVIEW: Charles Tyra launches new science fiction magazine "Goblins & Galaxies"
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in May: FREE Sci-fi & Fantasy. Over 165 stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost. A heroic, humorous, and inspirational space opera! Get your FREE copy of Showdown at Jupiter's Edge: A Maxo Magnaveer Adventure by Daniel...
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"Probability Amplitudes": Incremental progress and a new prospective story
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in April: FREE Adventures in Sci-fi & Fantasy. Over 150 stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost. My latest novelette, “Fire From Heaven,” now appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 29: First Contact. In the shadows of an...
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Audible's original adaptation of "1984" by George Orwell wins the Audie Award for best audio drama
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in April: FREE Adventures in Sci-fi & Fantasy. Over 150 stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost. My latest novelette, “Fire From Heaven,” now appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 29: First Contact. In the shadows of an...
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How is gravity related to the other three fundamental forces?
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in March and April: Expect the Unexpected: Fantasy and Science Fiction with Unusual Plot Twists! Over fifty short stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost. Maddie is the NPC with attitude! Buy a copy of Desert Runner by...
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Prospective stories for "Probability Amplitudes"
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in March: Up & Comers: Bringing You the Best in Speculative Fiction. Over fifty short stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost. Wars make unlikely allies. Get your FREE copy of Shadow Game by Caitlin Demaris McKenna!…
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Daniel Suarez wins 2024 Prometheus Award for "Critical Mass"
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in February: FREE Sci-Fi & Fantasy. Nearly 200 short stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost. When your only option is a man who can't commit, what is Plan B? Get your FREE copy of Time of Commitment by Kate Kyle! Greg...
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"Probability Amplitudes" is back over the halfway mark
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in February: FREE Sci-Fi & Fantasy. Nearly 200 short stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost. She's an Artificial Intelligence Containment operative, monitoring AI for signs of sentience. Get your FREE copy of The…
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RIP Science Fiction Book Club (1953-2025)
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in January and February: Moral Dilemmas in Fantasy & Science Fiction. Over 40 short stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost. A marine's duty is to fight. Her curse is to remember. Get your FREE copy of The Blade Within...
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A critique of Ned Beauman's Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning novel "Venomous Lumpsucker"
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in January and February: Moral Dilemmas in Fantasy & Science Fiction. Over 40 short stories, novels, samples and excerpts, available at no cost. "When the skies turned red and the stars fell, humanity's fight for survival began." Get your...
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From the depths of the sea to the depths of space
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in January: Strong Women. 80 short stories and novels, available at no cost. Will humanity come together to save a dying Earth? Get your FREE copy of A Fading Star by Greg Hickey Earth is dying. Ravaged by disease, hunger, climate change...
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"Fire From Heaven"
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in January: Strong Women. 80 short stories and novels, available at no cost. When we encounter alien life among the stars, will they have made the same mistakes we have? Worse? Will we even be able to understand them? And what will they...
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Pioneers in an alien sky
Beneath the frozen silence, a world awaits discovery. Get your FREE copy of Under the Ice by Marie-Hélène Lebeault! Beneath the frozen silence, a world awaits discovery In a future where the Earth's surface is uninhabitable, humanity survives under the ocean, within a protective Dome. Ryn, a…
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Making the future better than it used to be
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in November: Short Story Smorgasbord. Nearly 65 short stories, available at no cost. When aliens arrive in Sol, how does humanity react in the first few hours? Get your FREE copy of Dark Nebula: Contact by Sean Wilson After several years…
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"Probability Amplitudes": Elements in flux
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in November: Short Story Smorgasbord. Nearly 65 short stories, available at no cost. Get your FREE copy of Warmonger by Monique Singleton! In the near future, France is ruled by an ultra-right minded president. The country is in chaos…
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Terms of service
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in September: Free Fantasy & SciFi. Seventy science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost. A black hole is coming for Earth, but that is only the beginning of Miranda’s problems. Get a free sample of Without a World by Kristen...
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Heinlein saw this coming
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in September: Free Fantasy & SciFi. Seventy science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost. Indiana Jones meets Air Bud in this short tail of loyalty, responsibility, and adventure set in The Realm of Reason... Get your FREE copy...
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Speaking for the dead
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in October: Fantasy & SciFi October Freebies. Seventy science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost. My latest novelette, “Nasty, Brutish, and Short,” now appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 28: SF Horror. When the first...
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"Nasty, Brutish, and Short"
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in October: Fantasy & SciFi October Freebies. Seventy science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost. As we have learned more about the difficulties of interstellar travel, writing believable stories set around other suns has...
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The next question
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in September: Free Fantasy & SciFi. Seventy science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost. Get your FREE copy of Passageway! “Philosophically, the universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and…
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What sf authors does an sf legend recommend?
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in September: Free Fantasy & SciFi. Seventy science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost. For a chance to live, would you leave everything you know behind? Get your FREE copy of If I Go! Home with his overwrought older sister…
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Against the empire
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in August and September: Thoughtful Science Fiction. Nearly 35 science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost. Get your exclusive copy of the short story When Traitors Fall by Abby J. Reed. 250 years before a ship crashed onto a...
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"Probability Amplitudes": Mapping the road ahead
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in August and September: Thoughtful Science Fiction. Nearly 35 science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost. Flying blind risks everything. Join the mission! Get your FREE copy of The Storm of the Eye by Dan Daetz. A former…
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Learn from SFWA Grand Master Samuel R. Delany
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in August: The Free SciFi and Fantasy Giveaway. Nearly 125 science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost. A reluctant thief. A caring robot. A death that changes everything. Get your FREE copy of Neuracode - Part 1 by Eris Goode...
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The neurotic robot and the teen hero
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in August: The Free SciFi and Fantasy Giveaway. Nearly 125 science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost. Bishop to c4... Get your FREE preview of Bishop’s Opening! Battlestar Galactica meets Game of Thrones. A gritty sci-fi...
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"Beside Still Waters" by Robert Sheckley
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in August: Worlds Beyond Imagination. Nearly 50 science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost. Get your FREE preview of Fallen! This is a sneak-peek of the first book of a two-part series. The sequel, Risen, is coming soon....
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Club Codex (August 2024): "The Hieros Gamos of Sam and An Smith" by Josephine Saxton
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in August: Worlds Beyond Imagination. Nearly 50 science fiction and fantasy books, available at no cost. Get your FREE copy of Ketil and Yitzy's Adventure in the Xura Dream House! The fate of the Cosmos rests in the hands of an unlikely...
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A tale of two masters
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in July, Free eBooks Featuring Strong Independent Young Girls and Women. Over 125 science fiction, fantasy, young adult, and general fiction books, available at no cost. Check out Zoe Calloway and The Temporal Tides! The previously...
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Club Codex (July 2024): "Venemous Lumpsucker" by Ned Beauman
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in July, Free eBooks Featuring Strong Independent Young Girls and Women. Over 125 science fiction, fantasy, young adult, and general fiction books, available at no cost. Get your FREE copy of Wait for Me This is an intense crossover…
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"The Eyes Have It" by Philip K. Dick
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in July, Free eBooks Featuring Strong Independent Young Girls and Women. Over 125 science fiction, fantasy, young adult, and general fiction books, available at no cost. Get your FREE copy of What If...: Science Fiction and Paranormal…
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Club Codex (July 2024): "Ruby Finley vs. the Interstellar Invasion" by K. Tempest Bradford
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in June and July, Get the page turners before they’re gone! Nearly 60 books available for free. Get Tim Trott’s new collection, What If, Volume 2: Science Fiction and Paranormal Short Stories, in print or digital! Have you ever felt as...
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A funny thing happened on the way to the past
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in June and July, Get the page turners before they’re gone! Nearly 60 books available for free. Get your FREE copy of Wait for Me This is an intense crossover short, where two of Dawn Chapman’s favorite characters meet the main character...
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Hell on wheels
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in June and July, Get the page turners before they’re gone! Nearly 60 books available for free. My latest novelette, “Long Night On the Endless City,” appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 26: Tomorrow’s Crimes: On the vast ring habitat...
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Space adventure about contemporary problems
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in May and June, Science Fiction & Fantasy Reads. Check out over 80 books available for free. My latest novelette, “Long Night On the Endless City,” appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 26: Tomorrow’s Crimes: On the vast ring habitat...
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The thief who could topple an empire
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in May and June, Science Fiction & Fantasy Reads. Check out over 80 books available for free. My latest novelette, “Long Night On the Endless City,” appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 26: Tomorrow’s Crimes: On the vast ring habitat...
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Ninety degrees from everything
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in May and June, Science Fiction & Fantasy Reads. Check out over 75 books available for free. My latest novelette, “Long Night On the Endless City,” appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 26: Tomorrow’s Crimes: On the vast ring habitat...
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When minds collide
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"Probability Amplitudes" has a new cover
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in April and May, Free Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Check out nearly 75 books available for free. My latest novelette, “Long Night On the Endless City,” appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 26: Tomorrow’s Crimes: On the vast ring habitat Ouroboros,...
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An illustrious career in science fiction publishing
My novelette, An Illicit Mercy, is part of a new promotion in April and May, Free Sci-Fi and Fantasy. Check out nearly 75 books available for free. My latest novelette, “Long Night On the Endless City,” appears in Boundary Shock Quarterly 26: Tomorrow’s Crimes: On the vast ring habitat Ouroboros,...
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