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September 24, 2017
An American Cage, by Ted Galdi: #BookReview.
This thriller is much more than that. Generally, thrillers are notorious for their concentration on story at the expense of character. In An American Cage, however,…
September 22, 2017
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #56
A series of posts for all word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the…
September 21, 2017
Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.
A small number of new characters have been created to go with the new locations and period. Most of the others appear in the first two…
September 15, 2017
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #55
A series of posts for all word lovers. Offering help for writers and language learners, these posts look at many different aspects of the…
September 13, 2017
Progress on the WIP: #SciFi in the Making.
As work on this is mostly confined to the void that occupies most of my skull, I don’t have a lot to report today. Preparation, they…
Travelling Light, by Vickie Johnstone: #BookReview.
I exercise a degree of caution when reviewing poetry, since I’m by no means a competent practitioner. Therefore my judgment is necessarily both subjective and lacking…
September 9, 2017
Emanation: Shadeward Saga #1, by Drew Wagar: #BookReview.
Genre can be the bane of the author’s life: most publishers insist on slotting fiction into predefined pigeonholes. But some books defy this process,…
September 8, 2017
Looking for the Best Word? Tip #54
A series of posts for all word lovers, offering help for writers and language learners. This week’s words: Important; Congeries; Hopeful optimism; Heard it…
September 7, 2017
Review of ‘Blood Red Dust’ by Stuart Aken
Originally posted on Andrew Wallace:
The first of Stuart Aken’s ‘Generation Mars’ books takes three major contemporary social drivers – capitalism, religious fundamentalism and liberalism –…
The first of Stuart Aken’s ‘Generation Mars’ books takes three major contemporary social drivers – capitalism, religious fundamentalism and liberalism –…
Ways to write science fiction
Originally posted on Andrew Wallace:
This discussion between science fiction authors Drew Wagar and Stuart Aken at FantastiCon 2017 became a mini-masterclass in speculative writing, while…
This discussion between science fiction authors Drew Wagar and Stuart Aken at FantastiCon 2017 became a mini-masterclass in speculative writing, while…
