You can now pre-order Vice & Virtue, Wyrd West Chronicles #2, at this link! Get it while it’s hot! Also, to get access to a FREE copy of Wyrd West Chronicles #1, just sign up for my newsletter! Pete Woodhouse doesn’t like to get involved. Too many complications, too dangerous to his person. But when […]
Read More Pre-Order for Vice & Virtue Now Available!Let’s imagine a thought experiment. An aggressive viral plague has struck humanity. Spreading astonishingly quickly through our modern world of dense cities and international airliners, we’d already lost the fight in a matter of weeks. Civilisation has collapsed and the vast majority of humanity has died. But you’ve survived. You fell deliriously ill, but through […]
Read More How to Cope with the End of the World#maythefourthbewithyou
Read More May the Fourth Be With YouSome of you may know about my Spelljammer fanfiction the Toy Soldier Saga. For those who don’t, it has a special place in my heart for many reasons. The first is that I love the Spelljammer D&D campaign setting. I think it’s an amazing amount of fun! A few characters that I played in that […]
Read More Pity You Can’t Publish ItWell, it’s clear that space opera is making a comeback! It’s too bad they don’t seem to notice that none of these themes are new. Thanks to their folkloric storytelling and galaxy-spanning scale, “space operas” have always been near to science fiction’s heart. Even the chilliest of them – Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men, […]
Read More Space Opera is Taking Humanity to its LimitsSome possible precipitating factors are already in place. How the West reacts to them will determine the world’s future, says Rachel Nuwer. The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept spinning by economic growth. Should that forward-propelling motion slow or cease, the pillars that define […]
Read More How Western Civilization Could CollapseThe conditions of the contest I have entered prevent me from posting the title of my sci-fi story, which is going to drop for my Patrons tomorrow! This will be a charged post. Support my Patreon here!
Read More Dropping Tomorrow at Patreon: My Sci-Fi StoryImage: Photo of C.J. Cherryh in the plane she pilots. Elizabeth Moon’s new novel Cold Welcome is a sci-fi thriller about a space fleet commander unexpectedly thrown into a life-or-death situation with an untested crew. It’s the first space opera that Moon has written since her Serrano’s Legacy novels wrapped up about a decade ago. […]
Read More 5 Women Writers Who Have Made Space Opera Their OwnEmphyrio by Jack Vance My rating: 3 of 5 stars Read for the SF Masterworks Reading Challenge and the Science Fiction Masterworks Book Club. I had a really hard time getting into this book. At first I was ready to dismiss this whole thing as a bunch of right wing propaganda claptrap. Ghyl, our protagonist, […]
Read More Book Review: Emphyrio by Jack VanceSo when I revamped my Patreon, I decided that I would charge by creation instead of by month, and that I would highlight a different featured project every month so that my Patrons would know what they were getting for their buck. I promised I would post the new featured project on the 20th of […]
Read More May’s Featured Patreon Project: A Dystopian Utopia!
