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Category: science fiction
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Space Opera Novella Snip the Second
Still looking for title suggestions, this is the part where things start to go wrong for our heroes… This has, you may note, strong ‘romance tropes’ which was deliberate back then, although now I’m looking at it and scratching my head. I really have changed, as a writer. Snippet One can be found here. *******************…
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Titling, Snippets, and Other Pains
I mentioned before, I think, that I never intended to write fantasy. I wanted to be a science fiction author. Space opera, Mil SF, maybe some Hard SF (although I’m too much in love with characters and story to do much of that). I began, a long time ago, to write my first novel in…
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Review: A Few Good Men
The other day I announced in a group of friends that I wasn’t feeling up to snuff, I was going to catch up on reading, so I was taking A Few Good Men to bed with me. Hilarity ensued. Most of them have read this book, as the group in question is formed of fans…
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Arting Around
I’ve been playing around with GIMP. With mixed success. And I need to write, so today you get some digital art from my efforts!
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Review: Sky Suspended
I have been trying to figure out who to compare this book to – as unfair as it sometimes seems, drawing a parallel between one work and another at least has the benefit of quickly conveying to the reader what to expect – and was considering the latter half of the Harrington series by David…
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Finding Poetry
I’ll be honest with you. Most SF poetry sucks. At least, what I have read of it. I think part of the reason is that you can’t build a new world in a poem, without making it unwieldy. I could be wrong, it might just be me. But I did learn soemthing recently, and it’s…
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Cover-up Follow-Up
Cross-posted over at Amazing Stories Last week I showed some examples of good and bad cover art. Now, if you are an indie author, or a small press publisher, you can’t afford a great cover artist to create bespoke art for your cover. And I’ll tell you something: most traditional publishers don’t bother, either. You…
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Review: Sort of
I know, I know, I’m horrible. *covers face with hands* I don’t have a formal review for you to read. I am going to tell you what i have been reading, and say, go get it! Why do I so cavalierly command? Well, it’s a classic, and it’s a dollar. You spend that much on…
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Wanderlust Lost
Wanderlust Lost Tennyson’s Ulysses was written when Tennyson was a very young man, but it deals with Ulysses in his old age, home from twenty years of wandering and fighting the gods themselves, and it resonates with men of the age Ulysses is in the poem. How is this possible? Tennyson grasped on the…
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How much Data in my Brain?
My desk is a mess. No, I am NOT posting a picture of it! This is normal for me, actually. I will clean it off, but inevitably the piles grow back, like resistant bacteria you just can’t get rid of forever. The best I can hope for is a kind of stasis, or at least…
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Free Story, and a Review of a Story Collection
First, this is the last day to get my story “Dwarf’s Dryad” for free. Download, share the link with your friends, and if you enjoy it, don’t forget to tip the author with a review! Also, I plan to put all my short stories on sale, in anticipation of the upcoming release of my new…
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Young Science Fiction
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I’m working on a short story today, about a boy and his dog… and the boy’s spaceship. Then Dave Freer posted this: Zamzummims, where he laments the loss of Science Fiction Giants in the world of the young. We need writers who can give our children wonder, adventure, and a solid science in their fiction.…