Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. This was amazingly subversive at the time that it was written. And I suppose that a person who was raised Christian or Jewish might find it mind-blowingly subversive even now. […]
Read More Book Review: Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock. . . plus one by Robert J. Sawyer, who is himself a successful Hugo, Nebula, and Aurora winning Canadian science fiction author. Just sayin’. By Robert J. Sawyer There are countless rules for writing success, but the most famous ones, at least in the science-fiction field, are the five coined by the late, great […]
Read More Robert Heinlein’s Five Rules of Writing#30days30authors
Read More I Write to Create MyselfBy Karen Grigsby Gates #30days30authors Octavia Butler used to say she remembers exactly when she decided to become a science fiction writer. She was 9 years old and saw a 1954 B-movie called Devil Girl from Mars, and two things struck her. First: “Geez, I can write a better story than that!” And second: “Somebody got paid for writing […]
Read More Octavia Butler: Writing Herself Into the Story#30days30authors
Read More Chip off the Ol’ Writer’s BlockWritten by Nancy Kress #30days30authors One of the scariest statements I ever heard came from a young relative of mine: “All the science I know I learned from your books!” To which I replied, gasping a little, “But you know I make it up, right?” But not entirely—which raises a critical question. While much has been […]
Read More Science and Science Fiction: the Good, the Bad, and the UglyHey gang! Just letting you all know that the third book in the Wyrd West, The Vigil, is alive! It’s about twice the length of the first one, so the series is a full novel’s read now. And now that there’s three, Amazon has even given me my own series page! Remember you can Pay […]
Read More Release the Wyrd West!Francesco Augustine Bernadone: A Brief History of Our Tomorrows by Stan Faryna My rating: 4 of 5 stars Not at All What I Expected! Read as part of the #30days30authors challenge. This fast-paced novella is not at all what it originally appears. I haven’t read a lot of LitRPG, and what I have usually was […]
Read More Book Review: Francesco Augustine Bernadone by Stan FarynaOriginally posted on The Angry Staff Officer:
Strap yourselves in, folks, it’s time to ruin yet another timely classic by giving it the old “analyze it to death” treatment. And this time, we’re going back a ways. A long time ago, to be exact, in a galaxy far, far away. More precisely, we’re going to…
#30days30authors I should have posted this hours ago, but I’m trying to make a deadline. Here’s an excerpt from my hard sci-fi project! “I can’t believe we’re finally decelerating!” Bianca sighed over morning coffee in the lounge. Over the course of the three year journey this had become a regular custom for the crew. “It […]
Read More Excerpt from The Cloud by Diane Morrison
