March 22, 2026 – I’m still pleased that my story “Speaking Bear Leader’s Quest” was included in Amazing Stories’s collection of the Best of 2025. But I’m less excited now that I’ve found there are 49 stories and 13 poems in the book. Since Amazing Stories publishes four stories each month on its website, I […]
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March 13, 2026 – Amazing Stories magazine has published their Best of 2025 collection, and my story “Speaking Bear Leader’s Quest” is in it! Here’s a link to the magazine’s website: and here’s their press release: Amazing Stories Announces Amazing Stories: Best of 2025 New anthology celebrates the year’s most imaginative science fiction—featuring a classic
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January 9, 2026 – Amazing Stories has selected my story “Speaking Bear Leader’s Quest” to be included in their Best of 2025 collection! I don’t know yet when the anthology will be available.
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December 11, 2025 – The paperback version of Softlife had fallen off the Barnes & Noble website! Their support told me this can happen if sales of the paperback are too low. They kindly reinstated the book when I asked, so Softlife is available as a paperback on Barnes & Noble again. It’s good to
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September 13, 2025 – Yesterday I replaced the Softlife cover I made myself with a professional one by 100 Covers (100covers.com). It may take a while for the change to propagate to all sales channels, but eventually, every version will have the new cover. Next is to get more reviewers (any volunteers?).
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August 12, 2025 – I removed the rainbow-colored background from the home page’s header. I have nothing against the LGBTQIA+ community, but I’m not a part of it, and I don’t want to accidentally misrepresent myself. Back when I first created the header, the rainbow was just a set of colors used by various people
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June 28, 2025 – Another technical paper on which I’m a coauthor was recently published, so I’ve updated my publication list. (Note my old-school placement of the preposition “on.” I’m still a little old-school.) Not that I suppose anyone’s following my publication list closely, but I’m a bit compulsive and like to keep things up
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May 31, 2025 – I had cataract surgery on both eyes during April. Normal people get cataract surgery, recover quickly, and rave about their improved vision. Then there’s me. My first eye was about 20/20 after its surgery. A few weeks later, it began to cloud up, until everything became pretty much a white blur
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January 27, 2025 – My story Speaking Bear Leader’s Quest is today’s free story on Amazing Stories’s website! Have a look and a listen (I narrated the story for the audio version). https://amazingstories.com/2025/01/speaking-bear-leaders-quest-by-james-r-hardin-free-story/
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January 15, 2025 – The time for exclusive publication rights for Power to Power and WANT GOLD is long over, according to the contract for each. So I’ve posted the stories in the Short Stories page. This is especially helpful for WANT GOLD, since Daily Science Fiction has gone on indefinite hiatus and the story
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