I’ll admit it, when it comes to my love of sci fi – I’m mainly limited to TV and movies. Which is really odd give my absolute love of reading! I really enjoy reading a good sci fi when I can find it, but finding them has proven difficult for me. When I look around, it seems that sci fi and fantasy are all piled together – and they are NOT the same thing. And there is such a wide array of “sci fi”, that looking for one I’d like is akin to picking through the items at a garage sale.

What I love is a good story set in the future in space – with aliens yes, but also with humans. I also LOVE anything having to do with time travel. That’s probably my favorite. I just read The Time Traveler’s Wife and really enjoyed it. Not hardcore sci fi – but cool nonetheless.

So I’m asking for help! If you know of good sci fi authors who tend to focus on either space or time travel – I would love to hear about them! Give me authors who produce real page-turners!! I crave written sci fi!!

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I’m all about animal… what’s the opposite of cruelty – nicety? Anyway, I don’t like the thought of testing some chemical-filled-possibly-volatile skin product on Fluffy, causing him to be fluffy no more, or even causing him to be Fluffy no more (no I did not just write the same phrase twice – read it again). It’s sad really. So I’m very happy to know that these days, there are so many products clearly labeled “not tested on animals”.

Then I noticed a trend in blogging – it’s called the “product review”. I do it myself from time to time at Kat’s Healthy Living, as well as Kitchen Table Medicine… but I just recently really noticed how very many bloggers are willingly slathering unknown products on their skin, or taking new supplements, or whatever, in order to write a product review (because really, people love product reviews – I know for me, there’s no better reading than a pro/con list, or a top ten list, or whathaveyou).

It then dawned on me that companies no longer test products on animals because they no longer NEED the animal. Fluffy got bumped. Yep. One day there will be an activist – deep in the trenches – fighting for blogger rights, longing for the day when they can read that label: “Not tested on bloggers”.

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