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August 14, 2013
Favorite Books from Summers Gone By
The first draft of The Edge of Eternity (The Wizard of Time – Book 3) is finally done. Now I will hopefully have more time for blogging inbetween revisions. I hope to have it revised, edited, proofed and beta read by sometime in early 2014. I had hoped to have it done by the end of the year, but my day job schedule is going to be too busy for that.
I was thinking that it since I’ve been writing YA fantasy and sci-fi it might be fun to post the books I most remember from my own youth. So here t...
July 7, 2013
My Favorite Spaceships
I am busy working on the first draft of The Edge of Eternity (Wizard of Time Book 3) and haven’t had much time for blogging. However, I thought it might be fun to post a list of my favorite spaceships from TV and movies. So, below you will find them in no particular order – except the last one.
The Enterprise (From Star Trek The Motion Picture)
I remember seeing this ship in the theater when the movie came out. I was probably 11 or 12. I had been reading about the design for months in Future Li...
June 9, 2013
Fun Video Review of Fahrenheit 451
Created by AcademicEarth.org
Ray Bradbury‘s Fahrenheit 451 is one of my favorite dystopian novels (Brave New World is probably my favorite).
The video above is a nice little synopsis of the novel and it’s major themes. The entire book encapsulated in 2 minutes and 35 seconds. Like a whole meal in tablet form from the Jetsons. Its creator sent me the link and asked me to share, which I encourage everyone else to do as well.
The video got me to thinking about the novel and thinking about reading i...
May 14, 2013
The Compatibility (or not) of Science and Religion
There were a couple interesting articles this last week at io9 and at Slate addressing the question of whether or not Religion and Science and be reconciled. The explicit conclusion of the Slate article by physicist Sean Carroll is that they are not. The comments to both articles seem, in general, to agree.
Carroll’s article is mostly about why he won’t take money from the Templeton Foundation, but links to an earlier blog post about why he feels Science and Religion are not compatible.
A key q...
May 2, 2013
Storytelling – Things I’ve Learned Lately
Storytelling is not easy. I know this because I see and read bad story telling all the time. It’s no easy task to create an interesting idea with an exciting plot and engaging characters. I’ve decided that a fun blog post might be listing off the things I’ve learned from the well written stories I’ve read and watched lately. It might even be something I do regularly.
(It probably goes without saying, but spoilers will follow)
Things I Learned Watching Alias
If your story has a central character...
April 18, 2013
Paolo Soleri – A Visionary Passes Beyond the Veil
I learned a few days ago that visionary architect Paolo Soleri passed away on April 10th at age 93. I’ve posted about Soleri before. I first encountered his ideas in 1979 while watching an episode of 60 minutes when I was ten years old. Shortly after that I came across and article about him in Future Life Magazine.
Soleri was a philosopher architect with a deeply spiritual worldview. He studied briefly with Frank Lloyd Wright but soon followed his own unique path, creating the concept of an ar...
April 7, 2013
The Sword of Unmaking (The Wizard of Time – Book 2) – Available Now!
The Sword of Unmaking (The Wizard of Time – Book 2) is now available at Amazon!
Nearly a year after being snatched from the timeline of history at the moment of his death and revealed to be the Seventh True Mage, Gabriel is deeply involved in fighting the War of Time and Magic.
Shortly after he and the Chimera team return from a near-disastrous extraction mission to save a mage in ancient Vienna, the battlefield comes to Windsor Castle.
In the midst of defending the castle, Gabriel is thrust int...
March 30, 2013
The Sword of Unmaking (The Wizard of Time – Book 2)
It’s been a long while since my last blog. The day job and the work to finish WOT #2 have kept me too busy (and to be honest I haven’t really had a good idea for a blog of late).
The good news is that The Sword of Unmaking (The Wizard of Time – Book 2) is finally finished.
As a thank you to fans of the first book who have been patiently waiting for the sequel, I’m giving out Advance Reader Copies of the ebook from now until the book goes live (hopefully the week of April 7th).
So, if you are int...
January 31, 2013
Some Questions and Thoughts a Cybiont World
(Note: this post is assembled from parts of a book I once wrote about spirituality and globalization. I thought it might be interesting to share)
“I see the Cybiontas a single planetary organism, and, more specifically, as the most advanced form of a planetary brain now coming into being.” Joel de Rosnay, The Symbiotic Man, p. 114
The idea of a Cybiontworld is a combination of the Gaia hypothesis, the ever-increasing network of computer technology around the world, and the potential advent of a...
January 8, 2013
More Thoughts About Remakes – Wonder Woman & Star Trek
(These thoughts follow on from my previous post one remakes.)
Wonder Woman (TV)
I know a TV remake of Wonder Woman is being worked on even as a film project is being contemplated. And I’ve seen the monstrosity of a TV pilot David E. Kelley cooked up. Obviously, Hollywood has some trouble figuring out how to tell Wonder Woman’s story.
Again, as with Superman, I would start with the premise that Wonder Woman is a bit older than we’ve seen her in the past. However old the ch...
