Tag Archive | writing
It’s official. I am a published author!
That’s right, my first speculative fiction anthology is available over at Amazon for Kindle devices (working on releasing it in other places as well), for just $.99. Here is the link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089636XJ7 And thank you so very much to all of you who have supported me over the years with your kind words, encouragement, […]
Happy New Years and Cover Reveal
Hello and Happy New Year oh gentle readers. Normally this would be a post recounting some of the events of last year: the good, the bad, and the ugly. And while 2017 had a few of the first and a lot of the second and third, instead I will focus on the future. The […]
TV Tropes Monday: The Theocracy
Tweet of the Day: Crash Curse Literature: George Orwell’s 1984 Part #2 The Theocracy, a government for and by God. Men rule and are ruled in the name of a higher power and under strict religious principles. The word of the religious authorities is absolute. After all how can you argue against the word […]
The Life and Death of Mass Effect: A Failed Trilogy
Tweet of the Day: Mass Effect: Andromeda- Update from the Studio It is almost official, the Mass Effect gaming franchise is dead. But how did it come to this?
TV Tropes Monday: Apocalypse Cult
Tweet of the Day: From Dark to Dark: Yes, Women Have Always Written Space Opera The world as we know it will end, it always does. Don’t believe me, just ask the civilizations of the Hindus river valley, the eastern Mediterranean bronze cultures, or the Western Roman Empire. Wait, you can’t, because they are […]
TV Tropes Monday: Mundane Dogmatic
Tweet of the Day: Becoming Deviant How hard is your science fiction? That is a question that lurked in the shadows of the genre since the beginning. For some anything beyond 20 minutes into the future is sci-fi, even if it had elves, psychic magic, and teleportation. For the futurist, science fiction was a […]
TV Tropes Monday: Walking Tanks
Tweet of the Day: Doggie Keepsake When the giant robot craze started in Japan in the 1960s, the first robots were essentially gigantic robotic super heroes, a Japanese version of Superman but with missiles, photonic rays and piloted by teenagers with strange hairdos. In reaction to that, other animated shows, went the “real robot” […]
Writers: When Writing About Mythological Gender/Sex
Tweet of the Day: The Complexities of Trans Gerudo Town Remember that in most traditions, the Deities/Gods are pansexual for a variety of reasons: 1. They were the first beings at or before the creation of the universe. In order for the creation to make sense, the deities need to be flexible in a […]
TV Tropes Monday: New Neo City
Tweet of the Day: A Spell for You Your colony ship lands in a virgin world and your crew is ready to create the first settlement upon it. But what should you call it? Do you name it after the leader of your star nation? Perhaps use the name of your significant other? […]
TV Tropes Monday: Hegemonic Empire
Tweet of the Day: The Adult Appeal in Young Adult The Hegemonic Empire is one that rules indirectly, through what many call, “Soft Power“. There are three reasons why an empire might chose to rule this way: Cultural/Historical: The empire rose from rebellion from another empire or has as guiding principles the ideas of […]
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