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October 30, 2015
Review: The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers
The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers by Margaret George My rating: 5 of 5 stars Excellent book. It put the life of Henry VIII in perspective and I learned a lot about him. I’ve read other books about this time in history and hearing his life in concert with […]
Review: 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann My rating: 5 of 5 stars Excellent book about the native american civilization before Columbus landed. I learned a great deal and I highly recommend this to anyone that is interested in American History. I learned how developed and integrated the native Americans […]
Review: Diplomacy
Diplomacy by Henry Kissinger My rating: 5 of 5 stars I loved this book. It gave an excellent story about how politics have evolved over the last century. It also shows how simple mistakes and misunderstandings caused major problems. I love books like this because we hear constantly how ‘they’ are in charge and ‘they’ […]
Review: The Help
The Help by Kathryn Stockett My rating: 5 of 5 stars I listened to this book on Audible and I really enjoyed it. It gave a great insight into what it was like for a black domestic during that period. The writing was excellent and the story line was very enjoyable. It had humor and […]
Review: The Circuit: Executor Rising
The Circuit: Executor Rising by Rhett C. Bruno My rating: 4 of 5 stars I liked the book and I think I’ll read a few more in the series. I’m somewhat picky about a couple of things though. I haven’t seen many Sci-Fi authors understand orbital mechanics. They describe movement in space that doesn’t work. […]
October 26, 2015
Fellow Science Fiction readers
I have a lot of new works available and I hope you check some of them out. 7/20 I gave away 5 copies of Virus “72 Hours to Live” Through Goodreads.com. There was 563 people that asked for a copy. 9/2 Released a copy of SIMPOC “The Thinking Computer” on Audible, ITunes & Amazon […]
October 25, 2015
Science Fiction Evil-“What is it missing?”
There is something about Evil within Science Fiction that bothers me. It seems to be an easy plot mechanism to say something or someone is ‘evil.’ When the author says the machines, corporations, computers or politicians are evil, the reader is expected to accept it as fact. I think this is a shortcoming with the […]
September 24, 2015
Why I write Science Fiction?
Why I write Science Fiction Seems like a dumb question, but I have a good answer. At least, a good answer for me. I’m about half-way into a new novel and I just took a different path. The protagonists in my novel have battled a virus that almost wiped out humanity and now a small […]
September 18, 2015
SIMPOC Now an Audio Book (Get a Free Copy)
Link to Audible SIMPOC-“The Thinking Computer” is now available as an audio book. You’ve read stories about ‘the evil computer’ well this is about how it became evil. If you’d like a free copy and will post a review on either Goodreads or Amazon, I’d be happy to send you the code for a free […]
August 31, 2015
Earth “With no humans”
What the animal world would look like if humans never existed http://fxn.ws/1KzwEkt I found this article to be interesting from a Science-Fiction-Author perspective. After all, Sci-Fi Authors have the power to create any world we can envision. I love this facet of writing and articles like this motivates me to write stories that have a larger […]
