A Day Long Remembered

A Day Long Remembered

The opening weekend figures for Soylo are in. Before we get started, let's take a quick trip down memory lane. "I've been predicting that the upcoming Han Solo debacle movie will begin the Star Wars franchise's collapse." -Brian Niemeier, 11/7/17 "First, Star Wars fans are not perfectly content. In fact,…
May 28, 201822 Comments
Catholic Wonkery

Catholic Wonkery

...Culture War Edition. Wherein Catholic Wonk Dr. Taylor Marshall attempts to advise Catholics how to win the culture war by writing exactly the kind of article that's been losing Catholics the culture war. First up, there's no clearer mark of a commenter who has his finger on the pulse of…
May 25, 201841 Comments

Fighting the Void

Last week I had the pleasure of being interviewed on a live stream series aptly titled Fighting the Void. Topics covered include as close to a succinct recap of Sad and Rabid Puppies as I could deliver on short notice, a brief discussion of #ConGate, and a digression into Nick…
May 24, 2018
XSeed Preview

XSeed Preview

You guys are awesome, so here's a little treat: a sneak preview of my upcoming mecha/Mil-SF novel Combat Frame XSeed. Prologue The future is over. Cascading social and economic crises led to the Collapse of civilization on earth. Wealthy oligarchs partnered with the last governments to found a new order…
May 23, 201820 Comments
Soylo

Soylo

I've written at length about how Disney's Star Wars movies are nothing but hate mail to the franchise's core audience. After the precipitous second week box office drop suffered by The Last Jedi, I concluded that Solo would be the first Star Wars movie to fail outright. Professional comic book…
May 22, 20185 Comments
Three Big Questions

Three Big Questions

Author, editor, and publisher Jeff Duntemann poses the three questions that authors of speculative fiction must ask when designing magic systems. There are three Big Questions you need to ask yourself as you take on a task of designing a magical system: What is the source of magical power? Where…
May 21, 20185 Comments
SC Spring Sale

SC Spring Sale

Announcing the Soul Cycle Spring Sale! For a limited time, the Kindle versions of my first three highly acclaimed novels are on sale for only $0.99 each! First up is the breakout adventure-horror novel that earned me a Campbell nomination: Nethereal, Soul Cycle Book I. Brian did a good job…
May 18, 20186 Comments
A Little Love Note

A Little Love Note

Friend of the blog Bradford Walker has clued me in to some encouraging developments in the unfolding #ConGate drama. The first response comes from best selling author John Ringo, who was disinvited from ConCarolinas last month: This is a strong suggestion to any decent author, especially all Baen authors. If…
May 17, 20187 Comments
The Karate Kid We Need

The Karate Kid We Need

This series shouldn't have happened. I don't mean it was a bad idea. I mean it shouldn't have been possible to make a TV show that celebrates masculinity, bashes political correctness, and most importantly gives viewers hours of fun, in 2018. I am referring to YouTube's in-house production of Cobra…
May 16, 20189 Comments
Unaligned Views

Unaligned Views

Yesterday Origins Game Fair, one of the most prominent gaming conventions in the country, posted this announcement on their Facebook account regarding scheduled guest author Larry Correia: Larry's blacklisting from Origins follows ConCarolina's disinvitation of best selling conservative author John Ringo last month. Taken together with Mark Waid's potentially criminal…
May 15, 201818 Comments