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Doomsday Chronicles

Doomsday is due March 25th, 2016

You heard it here first, Doomsday is coming. The latest installment of Samuel Peralta’s Future Chronicles is on the way. You’ll be able to pick up your copy on March 25th.

IOTD

I love me some New Order. But now I love me some Orkestra Obsolete playing New Order’s Blue Monday.

Friday Fun Day

Rosie on the Beach

I’m having much difficulty digesting the idea that anyone, let alone a majority, would vote for Trump. For anything. But there it is, apparently some of you find something appealing about this two-bit flim-flam man that I just can’t see, and this has bothered me greatly all week long.

The good news is that I have outlets. I’ve written a fair amount. I’ve cleaned. I made some excellent udon. I’ve even finished re-mounting racks to my fat-bike and this morning I got out for a...

Someone is wrong on the Internet

Yesterday I had a banner day. I easily wrote 2,500 words in the space of a couple of hours and even better the words were good enough to keep. And that was just the opening of a memorable day because then the sun came out and my little guy and I got outside for some play time with the kids in the neighborhood.

This morning, while waiting for another awesome sunrise in Cloud City, I was thumbing through Facebook posts (apparently, my frist mistake) when I encountered this beauty. Just as the s...

Doomsday Chronicles is Coming

We’ve seen the teaser and if this is the cover art for the next Future Chronicles release — Doomsday Chronicles — it’s considerably wetter than my contribution GOAT. I like it all the same.

Right now the schedule reads that the collection is due out on the 26th of this month. I don’t believe that Sam is jumping through the pre-order hoops for this one, although, if release is delayed until March this may be my misunderstanding. This collection has some big names including, I believe, 2016 Ne...

Intelligence in our Hands

Aral working in Scout II

Last week was mid-winter break for my youngest. Which means he’s been with me more or less non-stop since the Friday before last (his last day of school). That’s a lot of time to spend in anyone’s company, especially mine. It didn’t help that on Friday I got sick (first time this winter) and my project list just keeps getting longer and longer. More to do, less time to do it in.

Consequently, A-bear has been asked to help. The biggest hurdle I face is to bring his moo...

Maledicta?

I have been criticized for the use of coarse language in my writing and, you know, that’s fucking fair. Regardless of where the scrutiny is coming from it tends to make me wonder, Could I say the same thing, but keep it pure as snow? This is completely rhetorical noodling, however, and I know it. Don’t believe me, walk out your door and gnaw on a handful of the white stuff. You’ll be spitting dirt, hair, and heavy metals for the rest of the day.

I was born in the early 70’s. Some of the wor...

Writing Through

This morning I’m filled with doubt. I doubt my skill at writing dialogue. I don’t feel included or capable of anything approaching the awesomeness of my compadres in the business of wordsmithing.I doubt my ability to write this story. This god damned story that has been riding me all weekend. Asking me, nagging at me, what comes next? There is the simmering possibility that I’ve reinvented myself in precisely the way I can never succeed. Creation is fool’s gold.

Ugh!I sit down at the table, u...

Hugo Nominations

My PIN still hasn’t shown up, but I’ve been formulating my nomination list. Last year was bannerharvest for fans of SFF; a lot of new work from favorites and even some re-issued works (KSR’s California triptych performed by Stefan Rudnicki, for instance) which are eligible under new categories.

At this pointin the game, I remain cautiouslyoptimistic. But this may be because of the chronic toxicity that usually erupts within fandom around February. I came into this year’s award season expectin...

Ghosts of the Tristan Basin

I recently had the unmistakable pleasure of reading an early copy of Brian McClellan‘s latest novellaGHOSTS OF THE TRISTAN BASIN. He announced the story’s release on the 1st of the month, and while remaining fashionably late, I wanted to take a moment to boost his signal.

I am a fan of his Powder Mage novels; they’re complex, well-spun tales that occupy a unique place in the lexicon of fantasy. If you haven’t read these yet, then you are compelled (by the power of Grayskull nonetheless) to go...