#30days30authors I’m presenting a panel at the Virtual Fantasy Con #VFC2017 this October on “Realism in Fantasy Warfare.” It’s a stick in my craw that a lot of fantasy writers, especially writers of high fantasy, do not give enough consideration to the battles and wars that their characters are embroiled in. If you’re going to […]
Read More Novel Excerpt: A Game of the Forever ThroneI am ready for the vat-meat! I tried to be a vegetarian several years ago because I strongly disapprove of the way we treat animals in the industrial farming industry, but with gluten sensitivities and lactose intolerance I just couldn’t make it work. Not on my budget, anyway. I think it would be a marvelous […]
Read More 5 Years Away from Lab-Grown MeatMy dystopian horror / medical thriller Food on Their Table drops tomorrow at my Patreon. This is a great way to get a deal on my story! On Kindle I’m charge $2.99, which is required for the Storyteller contest. But you can get it for as low as a dollar if you support my […]
Read More Dropping Tomorrow at My Patreon: Food on Their TableThe Martian by Andy Weir My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the 2017 Second Best Reading Challenge and the Hard Core Sci-Fi Reading Challenge. Before I read this book, I not only saw the movie (excellent,) I had the good fortune to see a video on YouTube that was a panel made up […]
Read More Book Review: The Martian by Andy WeirStar Songs of An Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr. My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the LGBTQ Speculative Fiction Reading Challenge, the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge, and the Collections! Reading Challenge at Worlds Without End. Two of the novellas in this collection were also counted towards similar, but not the […]
Read More Book Review: Star Songs of an Old Primate by James Tiptree Jr.I feature the technology of the James Webb telescope prominently in my near-future novel about asteroid mining in deep space, The Cloud: Who Will Get First Dibs on the Powerful James Webb Space Telescope? NASA has issued solicitation for science projects using the long-awaited and incredibly powerful successor to Hubble, which is scheduled to launch […]
Read More James Webb Telescope Taking Project ProposalsThe artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words. Ursula K. Le Guin
Read More What the Novelist SaysHuge numbers of supermassive black holes are visible in a stunning new photo that astronomers said is the deepest X-ray image of the sky ever captured. Source: Deepest-Ever X-Ray Image Captures Countless Black Holes (Photo)
Read More Deepest-Ever X-Ray Image Captures Countless Black Holes (Photo)MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood My rating: 5 of 5 stars Read for the Apocalypse Now! Reading Challenge, the Women of Genre Fiction Reading Challenge and the Second Best Reading Challenge. Method of the world’s destruction: ecological devastation, corporate greed, and a mad scientist’s bioengineered supervirus. This book was my last hurrah for 2016; I’m not […]
Read More Book Review: MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood
