Pleased to appear in Renee Scattergood’s Author Spotlight! You can read the full article here. (Hint: there’s a character interview with Graeme Walsh, and he reveals a bit more about his world than you’ve seen in either one of the books yet.) Read the full article at Renee Scattergood’s blog. The Wyrd West Chronicles are […]
Read More Author Spotlight: Showdown by Diane MorrisonHaven’t read Wyrd West Chronicles #1 yet? You can get it for free for signing up to my newsletter! Just follow the link below!
Read More Vice & Virtue Book Trailer!By Sam Reader The term “space opera” conjures grand vistas, massive spaceships, multi-threaded plots of romance and intrigue, dashing protagonists, and dastardly villains, evoking all the grandiosity of an opera and the hallmarks of the best imaginative science fiction. But while all this is true, operas rarely come in a single flavor. There are gothic horror operas, romantic […]
Read More 6 Space Operas That Explore the Comedic Side of the CosmosI won’t pretend that the technology in The Guns Above was easy to imagine. I spent months working out the details and checking them against real-world analogues. A thousand cool and exciting ideas were cut down in their prime, excised by the cruel blade of reality, because I wanted tech that would pass the test […]
Read More “The Guns Above” Author Robyn Bennis on Imagined TechnologyBy Lewis Darnell As an astrobiologist I spend a lot of my time working in the lab with samples from some of the most extreme places on Earth, investigating how life might survive on other worlds in our solar system and what signs of their existence we could detect. If there is biology beyond the […]
Read More Why Would Aliens Even Bother with Earth?Sometimes in my stories, a space ship *does* blow up on page three. But even then, my work always has something deeper to say, and I find the dismissal irritating. Every science fiction writer has something that drives him or her. For many if not most writers this is the need to pen a […]
Read More A Space Ship Does Not Blow Up on Page ThreeA little nerd humour for the BC election today. North Vancouver has become the ultimate battleground for a pair of intergalactic candidates. Reddit user hpka spotted these Simpsons-inspired campaign signs on the Mount Seymour Parkway. Read the full article at the Vancouver Sun.
Read More Spotted on Reddit: Kodos, Kang in Tight Race in North Vancouver#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 Limits
