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S Andrew Swann | February 15, 2010

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S Andrew Swann | February 5, 2010

Blogish Thing #1: The Amazon/Macmillan thing continues rolling on, making Amazon look more and more the villian to those of us who write for a living.  Reactions are varied, and I’d like to endorse Scalzi’s call not to boycott, but to buy books from the affected authors.
Also like Scalzi, I’ve decided to stop with the [...]

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S Andrew Swann | February 3, 2010

Today I’ve a guest blog post up @ SciFiGuy.ca wherein I go and mull over my current obsessions on religion and space opera in the Apotheosis Trilogy.
Can you write SF about religion? It’s an interesting question because when people tend to think of Religion and SF, it almost always in terms of opposition. It is [...]

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S Andrew Swann | January 15, 2010

Browsing around the interwebs I’ve come across some cool galleries of modern ruins. These pictures have a weight to them in times like these, perhaps a glimpse into a common future.
One wonders what Dubai might look like in a dozen years.

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S Andrew Swann | December 31, 2009

The funny photo-blog.
It, I think, started with cats:
Followed by the wonders of fail:
and politics. . .
But now its gone a little overboard. . . we have sites for Jury-Rigging, Cars, Bad Tattoos, Irony, WTF, Female WTF, Photobombing, Win, Real Estate, Weddings, Bad Fashion, Bad Fashion at Wal-Mart, Too Cute Animals. . .
Watch the links, these [...]

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S Andrew Swann | December 24, 2009

Thriller writer J.C. Hutchins has compiled a sampler PDF of gift ideas:
That’s the idea behind this In the Nick of Time! holiday sampler PDF. Inside are excerpts from a dozen new novels and nonfiction books by these New York Times bestselling authors, successful entrepreneurs, and wickedly talented storytellers.
Cool idea.

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S Andrew Swann | December 11, 2009

Internet trolls are fascinating creatures. They live in the nooks and crannies of the internet, eager to pounce on any unwary passer-by. I find the psychology fascinating, as trolls almost always advocate a political point of view, and do it exceedingly badly. So badly that one is often left wondering if they [...]

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S Andrew Swann | November 3, 2009

First off, got a brand new Wolfbreed review on sffworld.com.
Second off, speaking of Wolfbreed, I’ve put up a sample chapter for your perusal.
Third off, speaking of sample chapters, I’ve done likewise for Prophets.
Fourth off, I’ve added pages for upcoming 2010 titles, Wolf’s Cross and Heretics.

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S Andrew Swann | October 19, 2009

I was e-mailed both of these in rather quick succession, and while I don’t have the space for graphical badges on my book pages, I thought I’d set up a blog post to show them off.   I’ve linked the graphics to the reviews in question.  It does seem that Wolfbreed is actually striking a [...]

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S Andrew Swann | October 2, 2009

Corridors! Gods! Wi-fi of doom!
Superman! Wal-mart! Treasure!
Cute Fuzzy Zombies! Smut! Propaganda!
Sexbots!

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