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sScience Fiction New Release Roundup: 23 December 2017
Saturday , 23, December 2017 Fiction Leave a commentThis week’s roundup of the newest releases in science fiction features a jailbreak by the battle-hardened legionnaires of Victory Company, an uneasy alliance between galactic bounty hunters, alien relics under Earth’s ice-caps, and a vicious insurgency against the immortal rulers of a wound-down universe. * * * * […]
An Excerpt from QUANTUM MORTIS: A MAN DISRUPTED
Sunday , 17, December 2017 Fiction, Publications 2 CommentsThe independent planet of Rhysalan provides Sanctuary to 1,462 governments-in-exile. It is the responsibility of the Xenocriminology and Alien Relations department of the Military Crimes Investigation Division to keep a firm leash on the hundreds of thousands of xenos residing on-planet. Assassinations, revolutions, civil wars, and attempted planetary genocides are all in a day’s work […]
Fantasy and Adventure New Release Roundup: 16 December 2017
Saturday , 16, December 2017 Fiction 1 CommentThis week’s roundup of the newest releases in fantasy and adventure features the sole male wizard in his world pressed into an international magical tournament, an American soldier inheriting his family’s Welsh holdings, even more litRPG adventures, and a young Chinese officer facing down a supernatural rebellion. * * * […]
An Excerpt from ROCKY MOUNTAIN RETRIBUTION
Sunday , 10, December 2017 Fiction, Publications Leave a commentIn the post-Civil War West, the railroads are expanding, the big money men are moving in, and the politicians they are buying make it difficult for a man to stand alone on his own. So, Walt Ames moves his wife, his home and his business from Denver to Pueblo. The railroads are bringing new opportunities […]
Humor is an often neglected aspect of science fiction and fantasy. Not only does it significantly improve less serious works, but it can make deep, thoughtful stories more memorable and engaging. However, if it were so simple, then every book in those genres would be a barrel of laughs, right? Not only is there the […]
Science Fiction New Release Roundup: 9 December 2017
Saturday , 9, December 2017 Fiction Leave a commentThis week’s roundup of the newest titles in science fiction features a murder mystery on a generations ship, captured space princesses, a reformed thug battling aliens in the back alleys of a dying world, and the return to publication of the eighth volume of the classic anthology There Will Be War. * * […]
An Excerpt from THERE WILL BE WAR VOL. VIII: “DINOSAURS”
Thursday , 7, December 2017 Fiction, Publications Leave a commentThis is an excerpt of “Dinosaurs” by Geoffrey A. Landis from THERE WILL BE WAR VOL. VIII. It’s a very clever explanation for one of the great mysteries of history. * * * * * When the call came in at 2 A.M. I wasn’t surprised. Timmy had warned […]
The post-World War III world is a radically different place where magic and technology have become one in the violent struggle for global influence between nations. The rising powers of Persia and Musafiria are challenging the longtime dominance of the weakened Western powers, as the increasing use of magic provides them with a more level […]
One quality I love about pulps and classic science fiction works is how much physical confrontation is in them. Whether it involves mech suits, killer drones, shooting, swords, fisticuffs, or wrestling, there was heaps of full-blooded action. And it’s seemingly simple, right? Just write about one man punching another! How hard that can be? And […]
Fantasy and Adventure New Release Roundup: 2 December 2017
Saturday , 2, December 2017 Fiction 2 CommentsWith the holiday season now upon us, this roundup of the newest releases in fantasy and adventure is bursting at the seams, featuring a wife pressed back into her former role as an assassin, a desperate fight to save a friend from a magical kangaroo court, the first hard-boiled detective fighting the Klan, and a quest […]
The following is an excerpt from Rod Walker’s bestselling novel, YOUNG MAN’S WAR, the third book in his The Thousand Worlds series. * * * * * Dad had come into the living room. He was a big man, and he looked like the sort of cop who […]
Between Sherlock Holmes and Marlowe: Nero Wolfe
Saturday , 25, November 2017 Authors, Before the Big Three, Fiction 13 CommentsIt’s easy to forget nowadays, given the legion of predictable, played-out, repetitive, and boring works, but the mystery genre is relatively young. The earliest notable entries were several Poe short stories featuring C. Auguste Dupin (1841-1844), Collins’ The Moonstone (1868), and Dickens’ unfinished The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870). The Dupin stories were the earliest and most influential, […]