The King of the Nerds reviews Prophets: Prophets is a fantastic read that any space opera fan should be more than happy to take a look at. Well-developed alternate human cultures, exciting new technologies, and some intense action scenes heighten a complex politically and religiously charged plot that is not Read more…
Funny, I thought we were going to go go after those evil people in the government who were involved in torture. . . I sorta thought closing Guantanamo was real high on the priority list. . . And Iraq was a bad thing that we needed to get out of Read more…
If you are thinking about visiting a big box home-improvement store, let us say for an example, the Lowe’s at 24500 Miles Road in Bedford Heights, Ohio, and you are, again let us say for an example, third in line at the checkout in the garden center, you might expect Read more…
Another note on places I’m going to be this month: I will be Author GoH at the AnCon Gaming Convention in Hudson Ohio (5/15 – 5/17). Memorial day weekend (5/22 – 5/24) I will be attending this year’s Marcon in Columbus, and at the con from 4pm to 6pm on Read more…
If you haven’t been following along on my appearances page (and why aren’t you?) I’m going to do a reading/signing tomorrow with fellow hamsters Geoff and Mary at Mac’s Backs in Cleveland Heights. It begins at 7pm, and if you aren’t there then you just aren’t one of the cool Read more…
My friends, welcome to the coming golden age. We have not had such a fertile ground for unfounded speculation since the JFK assassination. I mean they tried with Bill Clinton, but you really can’t come up with vast global conspiracy theories with principals who are so obviously venal, narcissistic and Read more…
Alas, one I have no time to write. However, combine the cheap availability of computing power, the rise of stateless actors (terrorists, pirates, drug lords) mix in a little dissaffected youth in the EU, salt liberally with anarchic nationalist Chinese hackers, and you have the makings of a new world Read more…
This weekend I wrapped up the first draft of Wolfbreed 2. We have it clocking in at about 84K which explains finishing about a week ahead of schedule. This doesn’t mean that the book’ll end up that short. Inevitably my revisions end up long. (Even Raven, where I cut 30K Read more…
Ok, first we had the NY Times, the NY Times, explicitly comparing the Obama economic program to Nazi Germany, and saying that this wasn’t a bad thing. Then we have the Huffington Post, that right-wing wingnut rag, calling out Jeanine Garafolo for being an asshat for calling the April 15th Read more…