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October 18, 2011
My 20 Favorite Sci-Fi Films
The next few weeks will be devoted to exploring my 20 Favorite Sci-Fi Films. I had intended to blog about my favorite 10 sci-fi films, but when I started making a list it quickly exceeded 40 films before I could stop myself. After repeated attempts, I could not get the list down to just 10. [...]
October 14, 2011
Sci-Fi Youtube Friday
I'm thinking of making Friday posts all about clips from Youtube. There are so many collections of great sci-fi posters, scenes, homemade documentaries, and just cool things that I think it would be good to share them. So, my three choices this week: A Brief History of 50′s Scifi in the Movies part 1 This [...]
October 13, 2011
On Superheroes and Comic Books
There is a question that has been bugging me for a while: Why is it that certain kinds of stories are told mainly in the medium of comic books rather than in novels? This seems especially true for superhero stories. Particularly what might be considered the classic stories and characters like Superman and Batman and [...]
October 11, 2011
The Way of Kings – Review
I finally finished Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings last week. It took me months to get through the book. Part of that was because I was so busy indie publishing The Wizard of Time and The Dark Shadow of Spring. I was also writing the sequel to The Dark Shadow of Spring. So some [...]
October 8, 2011
The Dark Shadow of Spring (YSG #1) Available as ebook!
The Dark Shadow of Spring (The Young Sorcerers Guild – Book 1) is finally available! It's out as an ebook this week and will be available in print next week. I'm pretty excited about it. It's a really fun story. Fun to write. Fun to edit. Hopefully even more fun to read. I spent the [...]
October 5, 2011
World Space Week – Apollo 13
Since this is world space week, I decided to participate in my own small way by watching Apollo 13 again last night. Directed by Ron Howard in 1995, it is an extremely well made film telling the true story of the nearly disastrous Apollo 13 space mission. Apollo 13 of 1970 was supposed to be [...]
October 4, 2011
World Space Week!
The 12th annual World Space Week begins today (Oct. 4-10). Commemorating the launch of Sputnik on this day in 1957, (54 years ago for the math challenged like me), World Space Week was declared by the United Nations in 1999. It is the largest event in the world, 2,259 events being held over the week [...]
October 1, 2011
Weekly Sci-Fi & Fantasy Recap
Very cool flow chart of NPR's top 100 sci-fi & fantasy novel list from SF Signal. Nice review of my YA Fantasy novel The Wizard of Time. Time travel and magic – it's like peanut butter and chocolate. Nice io9 blog about why good sci-fi tv is so hard to create: And nice response. A [...]
September 29, 2011
Great Sci-fi Space Battle and Starships
It's amazing how many people create compilations of their favorite films and scenes to post on Youtube. I found a few more that I really liked. Great space battles and starships. Top 100 Sci-Fi Spaceships A Tribute to Space Battles http://youtu.be/YLE4tDRP3Gc Ode to Great Space Battles
September 27, 2011
Good Show Sir – Home of Bad Sci-Fi & Fantasy Covers
Back after a short hiatus to traveling for work and then to visit my mom. Also had to deal with a dead laptop fan, limited email access, and a messed up middle finger (which makes typing just stupidly annoying). I came across this site today: Good Show Sir. It's dedicated to presenting only the worst [...]
