Ophian Rising Preview

Ophian Rising Preview

It's my pleasure to report to my loyal readers that work on The Ophian Rising, Soul Cycle Book IV is proceeding well. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this preview. “Guide me to the ether mine, Tallon,” the smuggler said to the empty corridor in a mocking imitation of Astlin’s…
October 10, 20176 Comments
Cuphead

Cuphead

This week, my Geek Gab co-host Dorrinal gives his review of Cuphead, the slick shoot-em-up platformer that's giving games journalists fits. Bonus: in-depth reviews of the new Flatliners and Blade Runner 2049! Listen and learn! And so can you!
October 9, 2017
PRAXIS Delivers Blue-collar Science Fiction

PRAXIS Delivers Blue-collar Science Fiction

Praxis, the new blue-collar science fiction novel from author Justin Knight, is now available in the Kindle Store! Big New York publishers are in decline. Decades of trying to pick winners based on politics have left them with a stable of authors more interested in delivering lectures than fun stories.…
October 6, 20173 Comments
How to Polish Your Prose

How to Polish Your Prose

In the latest installment of Geek Gab: On the Books, I draw from my editing experience to offer writing advice to aspiring authors. How do you avoid the most common writing mistakes made by new authors? How can authors identify and break bad writing habits? Why does second person POV…
October 5, 2017
Whither Hollywood?

Whither Hollywood?

Vox Popoli commenter ZhukovG ponders the future of films based on best selling novels in the post-Big Five era. Just my uneducated opinion, but it appears that in the future, if you put in the work, it will be easier to 'make a living' as a writer but much harder…
October 4, 201710 Comments
The Currentest of Years

The Currentest of Years

Dragon Award loser John Scalzi has come down with writer's block. The cause of the Tor author's affliction? President Donald Trump and the weather: I started Head On in January with the plan to be done in the first half of the year, to leave the rest of the year…
October 3, 201781 Comments
#ComicsGate: Diversity is Conformity

#ComicsGate: Diversity is Conformity

If anyone still wonders why comic book fans are up in arms over the desecration of their hobby by malicious SJW writers, artists, and editors, this Twitter exchange perfectly sums up the controversy: Got that? comics industry SJWs push for more "diversity", by which they mean ideological conformity. Fans note…
October 2, 201712 Comments
Praxis

Praxis

There's been a great deal of discussion lately among serious, intelligent people about how to save science fiction. It's an open secret that SF once dominated in print as it now does in film, on television, and in video games. But the concerted efforts of malicious gatekeepers have relegated the…
September 29, 20176 Comments
Larry Correia vs. the Campbellian Memory Hole

Larry Correia vs. the Campbellian Memory Hole

The International Lord of Hate recently waded into a FaceBook thread started by author Mark Wandrey that had been darkened by a Campbellian Kool-Aid swiller who showed up to lecture the best-selling authors' fans about how hard science fiction is the only science fiction. Glenn: "Lowbrow readers want to be told…
September 28, 201725 Comments
Soft Narcissism

Soft Narcissism

Alex over at Amatopia continues the discussion on conservatism's cultural failures begun by myself and Rawle Nyanzi. Alex's contribution is to go a bit more in-depth about why conservatives abandoned the field to Leftists in the arts. I contend that by abandoning the arts, conservatives created this illusion of being…
September 27, 20174 Comments