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According to Robert Bianco at USA TODAY’s Critic’s Corner, tonight’s episode of Lost will run long.  The episode, titled “Ab Aeterno”, will provide some backstory on the mysterious Richard Alpert (Nestor Carbonell) who has been lurking around the show for several seasons now and who never seems to age.  It will run long by approximately six minutes, so be sure to adjust your DVR.  If you do miss the ending, you can always catch the full episode tomorrow at Hulu.

Do you reddit? If not, then perhaps it’s time to join the conversation. Reddit.com is a social networking site that has many sub-reddits that would interest Science Fiction and Fantasy fans. Axiom’s Edge sponsors one such sub-reddit called The Sci Fi Scroll where we post links to news, updates, reviews, rants, and so on from the genre. We basically just post links to articles we believe our readers would want to read. You can join in on our reddit and submit your own links as well, whether it is to articles you stumbled across and want to share with other Science Fiction and Fantasy fans or to your own blog posts. In addition, you can upvote the posts that you like (and downvote the ones you don’t, though we prefer to limit those clicks) and thus the more popular links will rise to the top of each group’s main page. We encourage everyone to get involved, and you’ve got nothing to lose because it’s free to join.

There are plenty of other sub-reddits that Science Fiction and Fantasy fans would enjoy as well. Many of these are more discussion oriented where you can submit a link to an article (or just a rant if you want) in order to generate a dialogue with the other members of the group who have similar interests to your own. Following are several that we recommend and I’m sure you can find even more that interest you if you poke around the site for a while (and feel free to share your findings with us): Sci Fi Reddit, Fantasy Reddit, Zombies Reddit, Star Trek Reddit, Stargate Reddit, Lost Reddit, Writing Reddit

Axiom’s Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy is looking for short story submissions that will be considered for an eBook collection that we will publish later this year. Short stories should be between 2,000 and 5,000 words and should fall within the genres of science fiction, speculative fiction, fantasy, supernatural, horror and pretty much anything that contains elements of the fantastic.

Also, we are looking for micro-story submissions as well. These will range around 600 words with a max of 800 and a minimum of 400. These can be stories or sketches or verbal illustrations but they must have some sort of point and some form of “aha” moment for the reader.

For further information including the format required for these submissions and how to send them, please visit our Submissions Guidelines page at the Axiom’s Edge site. And we will look forward to seeing your work and reading some good Science Fiction and Fantasy stories.