Serdar Yegulalp's Blog, page 74

From Something, To Something

With your sources for a story, it ain't where you start, it's where you end up, and how you get there.

Behind The Scenes With 'Fall Of The Hammer', Pt. 2: The Idea

The alterna-past setting and backstory for my new novel, 'Fall Of The Hammer'.

Stories Of The New Weird Normal

How to seek out stories that intelligently confront the moral complexity of the 21st century.

I Liked The Movie Better. No, Really.

Sometimes adapting something, as one form of remaking it, can do it a favor.

Behind The Scenes With 'Fall Of The Hammer', Pt. 1: The Origins

How my new novel 'Fall Of The Hammer' started from a project I'd abandoned over twenty-five years ago.

Let's Not Try To Understand All This Too Quickly

In a conversation with a friend, about the way our crazy moment in time is shaping our creative decisions, I kept coming back to a phrase I've said to myself before: "Let's not try to understand all this too quickly."

You Deserve To Know What's Up, Late July 2020 Edition

Much hard work ensuing here at Chez Infinimata, and on multiple fronts: current book, new book, software.

Down These Mean Streets

How much of a debt I owe not to science fiction or fantasy, but another genre: the hard-boiled noir.

Kauffmann Syndrome

The problem with much criticism: it proceeds from the flawed premise that art is hierarchical.

The Code Hole

I meant to blog a little more this week, but life happened, and I also stumbled face-first into what I can only call a code hole.