The last book in a series is always difficult to write, in one respect, because there is a lot of wrapping up to do. Plus the story has to be, well, worth the effort of reading all the books that led up to it. And the same time, the last book in a series is […]
The Last Book in the Imperial Hammer series is now out Read More »
I confused the hell out of the readers of my novels under a different pen name recently, when I released what I was properly calling a novelette. Those readers were confused over book lengths and what makes a book a book, or a novel a novel. They didn’t know what to think about a novelette.
What Makes A Book A Book? Read More »
I really like short SF. It’s where I got my start in SF, reading the golden age stories by Asimov, Heinlein, etc., etc. I couldn’t acquire the new era SF that was being published right then because I was still in Australia at the time, and only a limited amount of international fiction made its
Today is the release of the final episode of Season 3 of Star Trek: Discovery. We held off watching it until we could binge. We started last week and squeezed in three episodes before work bore down on us and we had to give up our evenings to getting stuff done. I’m looking forward to
Movie ties-ins. Love ’em? Hate ’em? Read More »
What are the facts? Again and again and again-what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history”–what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts
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