After reading Cory’s positively glowing recommendation of Spook Country, I’ve added it to my reading stack, ahead of Gibson’s Pattern Recognition. Probably not my best idea, but I yearn to get caught up enough in my reading to actually be reading currently relevant fiction for once. I also added the entire Sprawl trilogy to my […]
My thoughts upon hitting a certain point about two-thirds of the way through ‘Storm of Swords’
OH MY GOD! I CAN’T BELIEVE THEY KILLED THAT PERSON! NOW WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO?!?! That is all.
Quality steampunk scifi?
I need some help. I’m aching to find some quality steampunk scifi to add to my reading stack. Problem is, I don’t know what quality steampunk looks like from a title alone. The Wikipedia list isn’t helpful for this very reason. Anyone read any good steampunk scifi works recently and have some helpful suggestions? I’m […]
Blog and mini-blog
I have an RSS feed mini-blog going on the bottom of the site here that’s a running feed of my Twitter tweets. See, now you come here and you get two blogs for the price of none! Now that’s value!
Historical zombie fiction…now history
Well, the deadline was today, and I never submitted my story. It remains unfinished, and likely will indefinitely. The fact of the matter is after having a good conversation with my wife about it, I felt that writing a zombie story–something I have never done before, and an experience I wasn’t overly enjoying–was just not […]
The war continues!
I finished A Clash of Kings last night. I’ll be picking up A Storm of Swords tonight after work. I haven’t touched the Wii in about a week. Is that weird? Yes. Indeed it is.
‘Machine of Death’ – no longer worth the effort
I have a feeling the guys behind the Machine of Death anthology have had enough. They posted a new page in late February called “Approaches to Avoid“. This translates roughly to “we’ve received about 10 versions of each of these poorly-constructed concepts, and we’re through.” Unfortunately, it seems as though they’ve tossed every concept out […]
Machine of DOOM! I mean DEATH!
It looks like our good man Ryan North has taken a great idea and gathered a few friends and decided to put together a short story anthology. The concept sounds wonderfully simple: The machine had been invented a few years ago: a machine that could tell, from just a sample of your blood, how you […]
It’s better to be good than fast
At least, that’s part of John Scalzi‘s opinion in his entry into the ongoing debate regarding how long is too long (or, alternatively, how short is to short) an amount of time to be working on a particular piece of fiction. I mean, look: George R.R. Martin took five years to write A Feast For […]
Progress on the zombie story
So, I’m still at it. I’ve been slaving away at an attempt to create a piece of zombie horror fiction set in 16th century England, and I have to admit, I’m really liking it so far. It isn’t painful, like I thought it would be, and the prose is actually coming along nicely. I’m roughly […]