Tag: Science Fiction
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Who’s This Hugo Guy Who Made Everyone Angry?
As a number of people have been religiously watching, posting, counter-posting, fisking, counterfisking, and generally stirring the pot, I thought I’d give a broad strokes overview of what’s going on for those of you who haven’t been watching this unfold from early on. I won’t use the acronyms which seem to have pervaded everything (SMOF,…
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Kal’s April 2015 Forecast
I thought about putting this up for the first, but I didn’t feel that was auspicious given the day. April is finally here and I’ve already begun writing The Prodigal Emperor. Here in April I’ve got a busy schedule for writing: I’ve got to finish The Prodigal Emperor (Book 3 of The Shadow Space Chronicles),…
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Snippet # 2 from Leo Champion’s Highway West
Here’s another snippet from Leo Champion’s Highway West, coming soon to Amazon, Smashwords and other ebook vendors near you! Chapter Two It was mostly dark when Najif woke Ashford, shaking his shoulders hard. He’d been sleeping – was lying down, now – on a rough straw mattress in a corner of Najif’s room, in…
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Snippet from Leo Champion’s Highway West
Leo Champion’s book, Highway West, will be coming later this month. He’s asked me to post a sample here, which you should find enjoyable: Chapter One Lieutenant junior-grade Peter Ashford had just returned to the Kyrenia docks with his shore supply party when the first salvo slammed into his ship, which was moored a few…
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Fenris Unchained
The Wolf is Loose. Ten years ago, after her parents’ deaths in a terrorist attack, Melanie Armstrong walked away from a military officer’s career to raise her orphaned brother. Since then she’s been captain of a tramp freighter – shuffling from world to world, scraping to barely get by, but content that she’s made…
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Fenris Unchained First Snippet!
Here’s the first sample section from Fenris Unchained. CHAPTER I Time: 0815 Local, 01 June 291 G.D. Location: Dakota, Dakota System A yellow light began to flash on the control board. That was nothing new, not aboard the Kip Thorne. Warning lights lit up half the panel. It was a Christmas display of yellow caution…
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Upcoming: Fenris Unchained
I’m proud to announce that my deal with Henchman Press to release my science fiction novel, Fenris Unchained, is official. Fenris Unchained is set in a new universe and starts a new series of character-driven space opera. The Wolf is Loose. Ten years ago, after her parents’ deaths in a terrorist attack, Melanie Armstrong…
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Mila Kunis Falls A Lot (Jupiter Ascending Movie Review, Part 2 Spoilers)
With part 1 of this review, I kept it as spoiler free as I could. However, I think the movie warrants a bit deeper look, both from the perspective of what they did right and also from all the stuff they got very, very wrong. Starting off… the plot was about as easy to follow…
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Mila Kunis Falls A Lot (Jupiter Ascending Movie Review, Part 1 Spoiler Free)
I went into Jupiter Ascending with somewhat mixed expectations. On the one hand, I already knew that the movie had been delayed for reshoots, re-edits, and stuck in post production for the past six months to a year (thus the delay in release). I already knew that the protagonist looked a little silly (I think…
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