Tag: sci-fi
Book Review: Behold the Man by Michael Moorcock
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 MoorcockBook Review: Flashing Swords! #4, edited by Lin Carter
Flashing Swords! #4: Barbarians and Black Magicians by Lin Carter My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the High Fantasy Reading Challenge and the Genre Non-Fiction Reading Challenge. This is an outstanding collection of some of the best in classic sword and sorcery writing! I had heard of all of these fine fantasy writers, […]
Read More Book Review: Flashing Swords! #4, edited by Lin CarterRobert Heinlein’s Five Rules of Writing
. . . 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 […]
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Read More I Write to Create MyselfOctavia Butler: Writing Herself Into the Story
By 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 StoryRelease the Wyrd West!
Hey 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!Book Review: Francesco Augustine Bernadone by Stan Faryna
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 FarynaExcerpt from The Cloud by Diane Morrison
#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 MorrisonOrwell vs Huxley vs Zamyatin
#30days30authors In a city of glass, where people who are just Numbers living in glass-brick houses, and everyone’s daily routine is determined by the Tables of the Hours set down by the Well-Doer, one particular Number, D-503, is developing a dangerous affliction. He is nurturing a soul. This could put his life and that of […]
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