Wolfbreed gets a starred review in Publishers Weekly 7/13/09 Religion and political intrigue turn an adolescent werewolf into a killing machine in this compelling novel of 13th-century Northern Europe … Swann turns opposing viewpoints into sympathetic perspectives, clearly painting the complex political and religious dynamics of the time.
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Ever buy a house? Remember signing all that paperwork at the bank? Let’s just say you’re there, a couple of hours before five, and there’s a stack of paper, maybe 1200 pages worth. You don’t have a hope of reading it all before closing, and you have to close today. Read more…
As an industry it embraces every new technology almost before its developed. It has leveraged every communications medium that mankind has developed. They were the first content providers to develop a business model for the internet. So, I ask you, why do we not see more SF about the porn Read more…
Here’s a quick thought that came to mind as far as writing believable villains go. I think everyone’s heard the idea that no one is a villain in their own story. However, how can you write a legitimately evil human being without making the person a caricature. I mean, the Read more…
Two completely unrelated stories that should not worry us at all: Apparently a few years ago Japanese researchers developed a fuel cell that runs on blood. . . [via Steve] Then we have the UK researchers who’ve created a robot that eats “vermin” and powers itself by “digesting” the meat. Read more…
The whole premise of Atlas Shrugged is based on the productive members of the US abdicating from an encroaching socialist State by retreating to a secret utopian enclave called Galt’s Gulch. Thus the libertarian phrase, “Going Galt,” or refusing to be coerced into producing for an overreaching State. Of course, Read more…
Back in the day I did a lot of role-playing games, Champions, D&D, that sort of thing, both as a player and a gamemaster. In addition to being a geeky pursuit, it is also IMHO, another form of narrative. It’s influenced my writing a fair bit, and probably assisted in Read more…
But I have to acknowledge this post at No Fear of the Future: The Gothic writers used the model of Milton’s Satan and the Sensibility/dämonisch to create the Hero-Villain, the dominant villain of the Gothic genre. The Hero-Villain commits evil but is never purely evil. He is a mix of Read more…
The subject that will not die has reared itself again. So, if we don’t tax the Internet to pay for dead trees killed by a dying business model, and we don’t turn copyright law into an undead brain-eating zombie under the control of the RIAA, what do we do? Well Read more…