Black History Month: Irish Potato Famine Fallout
One of the things that you learn as you study history is that at some point someone has tried to explain everything from positions that don’t hold water. As a young nation, which America still was in...
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Exhale It’s Release Day: Wrath Bearing-Tree by @JamesEnge
If like the rest of the explored universe you’ve been waiting impatiently for another fix of fantasy by marvel maker James Enge, you can breathe again. James Enge’s Wrath Bearing-Tree released August...
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Things to Do At Worldcon: Rayguns Over Texas
Find yourself a copy of Rayguns Over Texas, an anthology of fantastic fiction. There is a foreword by someone named Bruce Sterling who’s been in print since the 80′s, it is edited by Rick Klaw, and...
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Why Are You Reading This?
You heard me! Why are you reading this? Oh wait. Let me guess. You’re that one person who has already bought, read, reviewed, and shared, on all your social networks The Broken Dragon? You know the...
View ArticleIntroducing: Marshall Ryan Maresca
Just before Christmas I came to a tentative deal for two books with the fantastic folks at DAW books. Seeing as the wheels of publishing turn slowly, it took a tiny bit of time to get all the details...
View ArticleAn Open Letter: Dear SFF Publishing Professionals,
Good Day, I’ve had the privilege of meeting many very smart, talented and interesting people in the years I’ve attended conventions and been part of the professional end. It’s been an undiluted...
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X-Men Days Of Future Past Review And Musings (There Will Be Spoilers)
So there’s this movie out, a pretty unknown and minor character set in the Marvel universe called X-Men Days of Future Past. It’s got most of the people from the the trilogy and First Class. Now on to...
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The Thorn of Dentonhill by Marshall Ryan Maresca
The Thorn of Dentonhill is now available for preorder. If you’ve somehow missed the drop dead gorgeous cover, this is it: The Thorn of Dentonhill is a damn fine book. I’ve had the privilege of reading...
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Food Porn and Ruminations
So, cooking, its something we do. Arguably all sentient races will have some form of food variation and arrangement that they engage in, which may or many not include the application of heat. Last...
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Ereading and Reading Indie Stuff
So, shocking as it is, I read. I read Big 5, I read the ingredients on my food, I even read independently published and some small press stuff. As you probably know, I’m not a big fan of ereading. I...
View ArticleAge of Ultron: Too Much Whedon Not Enough Marvel
I really did like a lot of the elements that made up Avengers: Age of Ultron. The issue as the title might just have tipped you off is that it wasn’t a very Marvel Marvel movie. It was however very...
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Review Rotisserie: Book Give Away
So, I got bored the other day. This is always a problem. But I got bored while trying to find a way to come up with a way to get people to actually post reviews to books I know are being bought and...
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The Inextricable Link Between Culture and Behavior
One thing that makes me put down a book or a submission is a world where the behavior of the inhabitant doesn’t bear any resemblance to what you can expect of people as a whole with a their cultural...
View ArticleDeep Roots
This should be the start of a series on one of my favorite ideas in science fiction, and the major factors that go into it. In my extremely humble opinion we don’t see this explored enough in writing,...
View ArticleColonization Scenario One: Political Expedience
Any time there’s a colony inception, there’s a reason. For this one you’re the welfare and social services administrator for all the people in a large region. There’s welfare queens, ex-cons, junkies,...
View ArticleScenario Two: Creating A New Culture & Phenotype
Assume you’re building a colony ship and you have unlimited power over who gets on the ship and who does not. Your casus belli is a desire to create a new “race” of people, and a new society. You’ve...
View ArticleColonization Scenario Three: How I’d Select
When I first mentioned doing this series to a certain nerdy red head I know they asked how I’d do it. Partly for my amusement I mostly demurred, for the sake of this series, I decided I’d go part way...
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