I’ve been on a Star Wars binge lately, and for the first time ever, dipped into one of the animated series. I grew up watching very early animations, where the background was static, most of the character was static, and the mouth moved when they were speaking. Up and down, a bit. So I’ve resisted […]
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I had a ton of emails from everyone, who wanted to know *exactly* who from the previous series, Imperial Hammer, got to hang around for the new series, Iron Hammer. Apparently, I was a bit too vague about who got the chop. 🙂 I’m currently watching the thrust and parry between the producers of Star
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I’ve been waiting a while to tell you about my new series and the first book in it. There was a lot of other stuff to get out of the way first, though. But finally…! I’m launching a new spin-off series to the Imperial Hammer series which finished last month. This series is called Iron
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To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. Robert A. Heinlein – The Notebook of Lazarus Long We’ve all heard the expression “set in their ways” – which is the other side of the coin to Heinlein’s observation. There’s growing scientific evidence that “age” is a state of mind far
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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
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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.
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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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This year, I’ve been inundated with emails and blog posts from SF & F authors, magazines, publishers and other organizations, reminding me that the balloting is open for both the Hugo Awards and the Nebulas. This actually isn’t news to me, and I’m sure it isn’t for you, but what I do like about these
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