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[Anna]

Lynda wrote: "Favorite movies: Star Trek, Star Wars, Serenity, anything with superheroes in it, Pride and Prejudice..."

Welcome Lyda! Another superhero geek :-)

[M.]

Hi I am a member of Goodreads but new to SciFi group
I write SciFi as well as Mysteries.
My favorite author is JR Ward
I watch all the geek shows like Sy Fy channel and Discory plus watch for research.
I am an old retired Broad after running an International Business and found my second career that is much more interesting.
Love Muriel www.mgarnet.com

[Sheryl]

*Waves hello*

I'm Sheryl Nantus and...

*deep sigh*

I love space opera. Science fiction romance. All that lovely stuff.

I grew up watching TOS on my momma's knee. I collected Major Matt Mason figs. I loved the original Battlestar and wrote X-Files fanfiction as well as Stargate SG-1. (Sam/Jack all the way!)

Now I write it.

But I still love to read... dying for Old Man's War to make it to Syfy and LOVE every J.D. Robb book that comes out.

*wanders off looking for a good cuppa tea*

;)

[Anna]

M. wrote: "Hi I am a member of Goodreads but new to SciFi group..."

Welcome Muriel! A fellow Broad!!! :-)

[Anna]

Sheryl wrote: "*Waves hello* as well as Stargate SG-1. (Sam/Jack all the way!)..."

Welcome Sheryl! Another Sam/Jack shipper! Yea!

[Sheryl]

*laughs* I've actually won fanfic awards for my S/J stories... *sighs*

So perfect...

*drifts off into S/J happiness*

[Aurora]

Hi, I'm Aurora Springer, new indie author of SF and I'm in Goodreads
I have a space opera about to be released.
(Some)Favorite Books/Authors: Jane Austin, Andre Norton, Peter Beagle, Zelasny
Favorite Genres: Science fiction & fantasy
Day Job: Scientist
Hobbies: reading, hiking, canoeing
Other: creating wild & humorous adventures.

[Gibson]

Hello, my name is Gibson Michaels and I've been a Military Space Opera fan since the 1960's. By the time I finished reading Bill Baldwin's HELMSMAN series, I was hooked for life. If a sci-fi author has written a Military Space Opera, odds are that I've read it at one time or another over the past 50 years.

Facebook Personal page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...
Facebook Author page: https://www.facebook.com/sentiencetri...
Author Webpage and Blog: http://www.gibsonmichaels.com/

I'm not on Twitter yet. I can sneeze more that 140 characters. Besides, instead of a "Tweet," mine would probably sound more like the screech of a turkey-buzzard.

[Charlotte]

Name: Charlotte Hunter
Favorite Books: The Witches of Karres and most of James H. Schmitz's novels and short stories; early Andre Norton; anything by Terry Pratchett up through Thud (his writing has declined badly since then, sad to say); Lloyd Alexander's Prydain Chronicles; anything by Georgette Heyer; George R. R. Martin's works, to include GOT; Yrsa Sigurdardottir's I Remember You; and many, many more.
Favorite Genres: Ghost stories. Not slasher horror, but honest-to-god ghost stories where chainsaws are strictly prohibited, as is romance and/or sex with anyone dead, and where all get nicely creeped out. Very hard to find, especially in YA, where too often the romance-or-sex-with-ghost thing takes over an otherwise good story. I like romance; romance with ghosts is just . . . ugh! Space opera, natch, and I'm glad to see more YA SO being advertised.
Favorite TV shows: Midsomer Murders; BSG (the newer version); everything Star Trek; Modern Family; The Wrong Mans (SO hilarious!); lots of Scandinavian mystery series. I cut out cable years ago and now rely on Netflix and Hulu, as well as the local library.
Favorite Movies: The Uninvited (1944); The Shining (both versions); Star Wars (4/5/6); Star Trek (love the news ones, but will always cherish the old); Murder on the Orient Express (1974); The Women (1939); Bringing Up Baby (1940?); A Bridge Too Far; Patton; The Hangover (the first one; fabulous writing!)
Favorite Food: Cheez-its and chocolate.
Day Job: Writer. I retired from the Navy a couple of years ago and decided now was the time to pursue my lifelong dream of writing. Four completed novels and pondering the way ahead.
Hobbies: Power walking; riding my beach-cruiser bike; watercolor painting (I'm wretched at it, but still in love); hanging out with the members of my MG/YA critique group.
Other: Okay, now for some things I do NOT love. Loathed Twilight; suffered through Ender's Game only because the Commandant of the Marine Corps made it required reading, and I was with a Marine unit at the time (way overrated, that book); I find Neil Gaiman's writing excellent and his imagination brilliant, but his characters are all cold and oddly off-putting; the writers of the GOT HBO series are not-so-closeted misogynists who get a kick out of seeing women raped and otherwise brutalized, and they are definitely into gratuitous T&A, most of which doesn't exists in the books . . . and why doesn't George say something about these things, goddammit?

[Betsy]

Georgette Heyer. Yes!

[Tricia]

Hi, everyone!

Name: Tricia Barr
Favorite Books: the New Jedi Order, X-Wing series and especially Starfighters of Adumar,
Favorite Genres: SFF, Romance
Favorite TV shows: anything Star Trek, BSG, Legend of Korra, Survivor, The Good Wife, Supernatural
Favorite Movies: Empire Strikes Back, Titanic, A New Hope, Hunger Games
Favorite Food: Churros
Day Job: Transportation Engineer, novelist and blogger
Hobbies: I show horses as an amateur in the hunters and equitation. I also podcast about geek things.
Other: Tweet me @fangirlcantina

[Pauline]

Name:Pauline Baird Jones
Favorite Books: I read pretty broadly. Like space opera (of course), mystery, and romance.
Favorite Genres: SFR, mystery, romance
Favorite TV shows: Big Bang Theory, Doctor Who, Income Property (hey, he's cute!)
Favorite Movies: Star Wars, Star Trek (some, not all), Stargates, Tremors (I have a dark side)
Favorite Food: chocolate and diet dr pepper
Day Job: author
Hobbies: knitting, reading, whining about SyFy channel

[Anna]

Oh, wow! So many new people! Since I'm MOD I'll go down the list and hopefully not skip anybody!

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"Hi, I'm Aurora Springer ... (Some) Favorite Books/Authors: Jane Austin, Andre Norton, Peter Beagle, Zelasny..."

Welcome Aurora! Be sure to check out our authors/bloggers shop talk tips! And another Jane Austin / Andre Norton fan :-) Two eclectic greats!

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"Hello, my name is Gibson Michaels and I've been a Military Space Opera fan since the 1960's. By the time I finished reading Bill Baldwin's HELMSMAN series, I was hooked for life..."

Welcome Gibson! I like a good old-fashioned Military Sci-Fi once in a while too! Have you found this Goodreads shelf yet? https://www.goodreads.com/shelf/show/... [*oooh! Like candy!*]

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"Name: Charlotte Hunter ... Other: Okay, now for some things I do NOT love ... the writers of the GOT HBO series are not-so-closeted misogynists who get a kick out of seeing women raped and otherwise brutalized, and they are definitely into gratuitous T&A, most of which doesn't exists in the books . . . and why doesn't George say something about these things, goddammit?..."

I know, right? I met GRRM at BOSKONE two years ago and was surprised he doesn't seem to possess half the attitudes people accuse him of. I -READ- GOT before the show came out and half the things people slam him for in the book reviews are actually from the show and not the books. Not that I don't think GRRM is a bit of a misogynist himself, but it's nowhere near what people say.

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"Hi, everyone!

Name: Tricia Barr ... Favorite Books: the New Jedi Order, X-Wing series and especially Starfighters of Adumar, Favorite Genres: SFF, Romance..."

Welcome Tricia! Star Wars and smut :-) Two of my favorite things.

[*cue Julie Andrews singing These are a few of my favorite things*]

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"Name: Pauline Baird Jones ... Favorite Books: I read pretty broadly. Like space opera (of course), mystery, and romance..."

Welcome Pauline! Another Whovian? And Stargate fan? yes! I've got all three series on blue-ray plus the movies.

[Lynda]

M. wrote: "Hi I am a member of Goodreads but new to SciFi group
I write SciFi as well as Mysteries.
My favorite author is JR Ward
I watch all the geek shows like Sy Fy channel and Discory plus watch for rese..."

Retirement! Now and then I catch a glimpse, like yours, and think ... mmm, yeah, maybe I COULD ... :-)

[Echo]

Hi! I'm joining from the SFR Romance Brigade.
I'm RK. I write at Smart Girls Love Sci Fi. (http://smartgirlsscifi.wordpress.com). I do author interviews, the occasional review (also for SFR Quarterly) and I now do a twice monthly post called SF obscure about SF/fantasy/paranormal shows from days past that go under the radar. Or were just terrible:)

I love SF. I like space opera books, movies, etc. I can't take sides on DS9 vs B5 because I have love for them both in different ways. My current obsession in Blake's 7 & British cult SF shows (Quatermass, Sapphire &Steel).

I also write. I have a fantasy romance novella out in October. (Under the name Echo Ishii)
I have bad SF novels hidden in the deep dark recesses of my hard drive.

I'm glad to find this group!

[Anna]

I'm RK. I write at Smart Girls Love Sci Fi. (http://smartgirlsscifi.wordpress.com). I do author interviews, the occasional review (also for SFR Quarterly) and I now do a twice monthly post called SF obscure about SF/fantasy/paranormal shows from days past that go under the radar. Or were just terrible:)..."

Welcome RK! Terrible late-night sci-fi movies? My husband could never understand my obsession with them :-) Especially when I watched them more than once! I think one of my favorite 'bad' sci-fi movies is Alien Apocalypse starring Bruce Campbell. There's this one scene where he cuts off a bug-alien's hand with a machete and you can see the garden hose hidden in the prothesis that spurts out the green gunk. My reply was always that I'd rather watch a bad sci-fi movie than a so-so sitcom. :-)

Could you please introduce yourself in the "Welcome BU / SFRB" thread as well? https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Echo]

Anna wrote: "I'm RK. I write at Smart Girls Love Sci Fi. (http://smartgirlsscifi.wordpress.com). I do author interviews, the occasional review (also for SFR Quarterly) and I now do a twice monthly post called S..."
Will do!
Terrible movies: Space Mutiny, Squirm, The Incredible Melting Man. Many a sleepless nights have been spent with these.

[Lynda]

mrsbookmark wrote: "Hi! I'm joining from the SFR Romance Brigade.
I'm RK. I write at Smart Girls Love Sci Fi. (http://smartgirlsscifi.wordpress.com). I do author interviews, the occasional review (also for SFR Quarte..."
Lovely to meet you!

[Laz]

Hey all! A GR friend posted something intriguing here, so I thought I'd come in and check it out.

I read lots of fiction, rotating through scifi, mysteries, and smut. I've read most of the classic scifi, and am done with it. I'm now looking for new authors such as Hugh Howie.

My favorite space opera is the Chanur series by CJ Cherryh.

I don't watch much TV and only go to the "big" movies.

Marvel over DC.

StarTrek over Star Wars.

BSG over Farscape.

[Anna]

Laz wrote: "StarTrek over Star Wars...."

Them's fightin' words!

[*crosses arms*]
[*pouts*]

Actually, I like both movies/series/tie-in universes. I just slightly prefer Star Wars because it has a princess and a pirate :-)

[Veronica]

Name: Veronica Scott
Favorite Books: science fiction of all types, but especially including romance or romantic elements. Regency romances also work for me LOL.
Favorite TV shows: Currently The Last Ship, The Walking Dead, Project Runway...in the past: Farscape, BSG, Star Trek (all varieties of course!)
Favorite Movies: Aliens. Titanic. Pacific Rim.
Favorite Food: Chocolate. Is there anything else? Well, bacon of course. And blueberries.
Day Job: At a place where they build robots to go to Mars.
Other: I'm a Goodreads author and I write the SciFi Encounters column for the USA Today Happily Ever After blog. My apologies if that last item is too much info for this particular discussion?! Happy to have found the group through the mention on SFR Brigade...

[Laz]

Anna wrote: "Laz wrote: "StarTrek over Star Wars...."

Them's fightin' words!

[*crosses arms*]
[*pouts*]
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Yeah, well there are strong women in the StarTrek universe. Pretty much missing in Star Wars.

[Anna]

Veronica wrote: "Favorite TV shows ... Farscape, BSG, Star Trek (all varieties of course!) ... Favorite Movies: Aliens. Titanic. Pacific Rim...."

You're in good company here, Veronica!


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Laz wrote: "Yeah, well there are strong women in the StarTrek universe. Pretty much missing in Star Wars..."

While there are strong women in Star Wars, I have to agree that they were never portrayed nearly as kick-butt as they were in the tie-in books and Clone Wars. And then there's that whole mess where, when they first announced the cast, other than Carrie Fisher and her daughter they pretty much skipped the women completely (though after much public uproar they cast a couple of AWESOME female actresses ... Gwendoline Christie of GOT fame and Lupita Nyong'o of 12 Years a Slave fame).

Yes ... Star Trek always just kind of skipped the stereotypes and politics and simply portrayed things the way Gene Roddenberry wished they would be.

[Anna]

Christian wrote: "Hi! My name is Christian, and I gave away and sold everything I owned back home in Norway in 2012, and then I bought a sailboat, planned to sail around the world..."

Welcome Christian! Sail around the world, eh? Well since you can't do it in person, perhaps you could write a story about sailing across the galaxy in a worldship, kid in tow? :-)

[Diane]

Name: Diane Burton
Favorite Books: Hope's Folly (anything by Linnea Sinclair), Grimspace, Honor Harrington series, Lost Fleet, Hunger Games & Divergent series,
Favorite Genres: s/f romance, mystery/suspense/thriller
Favorite TV shows: Firefly & Warehouse 13 (why do the shows I like get cancelled?), NCIS, Doctor Who, Rizzoli & Isles, Extant,
Favorite Movies: Star Wars, Star Trek, Matrix, Oblivion, Bourne series, Casablanca, African Queen, anything action/adventure
Favorite Food: anything Italian
Day Job: writer
Hobbies: besides reading? photography, gardening
Other: Goodreads author

[Anna]

Diane wrote: "Favorite TV shows: Firefly & Warehouse 13 (why do the shows I like get cancelled?)..."

Welcome Diane! Yes ... I know that feeling. I stopped watching all television (except for BSG) when they cancelled the Stargate. Lately, I don't even watch the premiers ... I'm like the girl who's been jilted too many times and stops dating. Besides ... once you know how to write (even if it's only fanfiction) you can create your OWN universes. :-)

[Cassandra]

Hi, I'm Cassandra and I'm a Space Opera addict. I'm a (recovering? reformed? lapsed?) politician with an innate love of human interactions. I adore sarcastic women, brooding men, funny aliens, and star ship propulsion that can be explained with actual science.

The very first short story I ever wrote was a space-opera. I published my first novel in 2012 and I'm (slowly) working on the sequel.

When I'm not immersed in a good novel, or obsessively re-watching episodes of BSG and Firefly, I can be found gaming on-line or attending conventions.

[Diane]

Anna wrote: "Diane wrote: "Favorite TV shows: Firefly & Warehouse 13 (why do the shows I like get cancelled?)..."

Welcome Diane! Yes ... I know that feeling. I stopped watching all television (except for BSG..."

Thanks, Anna. Yes, writing one's own story really helps. :)

[Lynda]

Princess Lea is a strong woman. Diplomat no less! King material. Just saying it isn't always necessarily about butte kicking girl power. :/)

[Lynda]

Fan fic - looking to redefine it with Reality Skimming Press. I think it 's natural for readers who get into a universe to try their hands writing in it. So using existing canon as a base I want to create circles of engagement leading from 'just playing ' to published Canon that aren't mutually exclusive but interact. Comments here recently encourage my gut feeling most writers like me started by imagining in an established universe.

[Anna]

Cassandra wrote: "Hi, I'm Cassandra and I'm a Space Opera addict. I'm a (recovering? reformed? lapsed?) politician with an innate love of human interactions..."

Welcome Cassandra! A recovering politician? Talk about seeing back-biting in action :-)

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@Lynda - I got my start writing Marvel superhero fanfiction. I'm an avowed Pepperony and my Captain America fanfic still gets around 200-300 hits a day and it's been how many years since Cap1 came out?

[Laurie]

So glad I found this group. Big space opera fan here!

Name: Laurie A. Green

Favorite Books: The Outback Stars, Games of Command, Cordelia's Honor, Dune, Dragonriders of Pern, The Ice People, The Accidental Goddess, Finders Keepers, Echo 8 (that one's coming in February, same author as Ghost Planet),

Favorite Genres: Space Opera, Space Military, Near Future, Colonial, Exploratory, Sci-Fi Romance

Favorite TV shows: Firefly, Defying Gravity, Star Trek, (oh, you mean current ones?) Extant, Game of Thrones, Under the Dome

Favorite Movies: Star Wars original trilogy, Serenity, 2010, Contact, Avatar and just about any quality SF/R that's been made

Favorite Food: Pizza, cheesecake and Alaskan King Crab (what a combo!)

Day Job: Military Budget Director

Hobbies: Writing, horses, stargazing...

Other: Writer of Science Fiction Romance - space opera/alternate history/near future.

[Anna]

Laurie wrote: "So glad I found this group. Big space opera fan here!..."

Welcome Laurie! Oooh ... another Browncoat!!!

[Sheryl]

@Lynda - I wrote over 200 fanfic stories for X-Files and found my hubby when I answered a fan email so I'll never say anything bad about writing fanfiction!

;)

It also really let me cut my chops on writing and get that first million words of crap out of the way... I think I've got the oldest story on file at ff.net!

[Aaron]

Laurie wrote: "Favorite Food: Pizza, cheesecake and Alaskan King Crab (what a combo!)"

I'm now thinking of pizza cheesecake made with Alaskan King Crab.

[Laurie]

Anna wrote: "Laurie wrote: "So glad I found this group. Big space opera fan here!..."

Welcome Laurie! Oooh ... another Browncoat!!!"

Oh yeah. You can't take the sky from me. (It even says so on my license plate frame.) Oh, and I have a cat named Serenity.

[Laurie]

Aaron wrote: "Laurie wrote: "Favorite Food: Pizza, cheesecake and Alaskan King Crab (what a combo!)"

I'm now thinking of pizza cheesecake made with Alaskan King Crab."

LOL Aaron Ummm...yummy.

[Michelle]

Name: Michelle

Favorite Books: Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, Discworld, Neil Gaiman's American Gods, The Stars my Destination, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Honor Harrington, The Forever War. Anything by Octavia Butler or Dianna Wynne Jones. Recently read Hugh Howie's Wool series, which was awesome.

Favorite Genres: Science Fiction and other Speculative Fiction (but less keen on high fantasy.) I'm a sucker for fantastically dark, witty adventure with good characters (particularly female ones) that doesn't take itself too seriously.

Favorite TV shows: Spaced, Futurama, Torchwood, The Big Band Theory, Firefly. I grew up on Red Dwarf and Star Trek TNG. I'm slightly obsessed by Farscape. Currently working my way through Community, Stargate and Star Trek TOS. Will do BSG next.

Favorite Movies: Not a huge movie fan, but I always have time for the Life of Brian, Star Wars, Serenity, LOTR and so on. I quite like the current crop of Marvel movies and yes, I like the new Star trek too.

Favorite Food: Chocolate!

Day Job: Dull finance gubbins at a US multi-national.

Hobbies: Apart from reading I bake (badly), draw (badly) and write (badly.)

Other: I struggle to find enough of the things I like to read...maybe I'm looking in wrong the places. I often think about getting more into comics/graphic novels but get bogged down in choice and fan-politics whenever I go looking for recommendations.

[Anna]

Michelle wrote: "I'm slightly obsessed by Farscape..."

Welcome Michelle! Yea! Another Farscape fan! Have you heard there's another Farscape movie potentially in the works starring Aeryn Sung/John Crichton's son?

Rumor thread: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

If you're always looking for things to read and like Vorkosigan Saga, we have an entire section devoted to Romantic Space Opera and three Listopias we're building.

Listopias Here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

And we also have a comics/manga/anime section with a great list some of the fans have been been helping us build ... all cool stuff ... still kinda small ... but there has been no fan politics :-) I know what you mean, though. I was on an Avengers panel last year and got snubbed because I wasn't a 'real' fan because I came into Marvel-verse from the Movie-verse first, and THEN into the comic-verse. :-P Yeah ... thankfully we don't get that here so much.

Here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/group...

[Kirsten]

Love Vorkosigan Saga (though I wish there were more books about Miles' parents!) and Honor Harrington (I'm only on book #3).

[Michelle]

Hi Anna,

Thanks for the welcome. I have heard about the Farscape movie. I'm a bit leary about it TBH...I would be devastated if it wasn't awesome :)

I could do without the romantic stuff in general, but I have ordered Grimspace from the RSO list and Saga from the comics list. They both looked promising.

This is gong to cost me a fortune.

[Anna]

Michelle wrote: "I have heard about the Farscape movie. I'm a bit leary about it TBH...I would be devastated if it wasn't awesome :)..."

Farscape is uber uber awesome! Especially when you get to Season 3 its some of the best sci-fi space opera I've ever seen.

And you'll love Saga. It's unusual, but everyone who reads it says its awesome.

[Aaron]

Kirsten wrote: "Love Vorkosigan Saga (though I wish there were more books!)."

Fixed

[Andrei]

Hey guys,

I’m Andrei. I’m a Goodreads first-timer so I have no idea what I’m doing, but I already love the community.

Been a sci-fi fan since I read Garden of Rama, when I was just a kid (it was one of the first books I ever read). I discovered I’m a fan of space opera when I realized I loved the Gentry Lee books in the series more than the original „Rendez-Vous”. My all-time favorite novel is Dune. I also love Peter F Hamilton’s Commonwealth series and Frank Schatzing’s The Swarm (which I don’t even think has been translated to English, unfortunately). I’m a full-time author and I write space opera, so I’m really looking forward to connecting with readers who love this (sub)genre as much as I do and sharing information. Hopefully, it will also make me a better writer.

I have a predilection for sci-fi in general but I’ll read any book I can get my hands on. Some of my favorite TV shows are Stargate (especially Universe), Fringe, The X-Files but also stuff as diverse as Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, MASH, Cheers and Agatha Christie’s Poirot (the one with David Suchet). Movies are too many to count.

I’m also a huge fan of jazz (which, I’ve noticed, works surprisingly well with sci-fi, especially Miles Davis’ „Aura”) and I’m a wine afficionado. Most of the time I like to combine these three passions. My favorite place in the world is my home-office (which I rarely leave) where I share the space with a Netherland dwarf bunny who does not like sci-fi but doubles as a secretary. I’m also an amateur photographer.

It’s great to be part of the group. I’m looking forward to talking to you.

[Ken]

Greetings,

Finally getting around to participating a bit in this group. I'm a long time SF reader who enjoys the masters as much as some of the new writers in the genre. I read more Indie fiction these days, trying to support fellow unknown writers. I hail from Boise, Idaho and work as a software build engineer.

One of my related hobbies is building models of the starships featured in my own space opera novels. It lets me keep active in modeling and photography as well as writing.

Looking forward to participating in the group as much as I can.

[Anna]

Andrei wrote: "I also love Peter F Hamilton’s Commonwealth seriess..."

Welcome Andrei! It just so happens we were privileged to have Mr. Hamilton grant us an interview a while back about his Reality Dysfunction book. HERE: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

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Ken wrote: "One of my related hobbies is building models of the starships...

Welcome Ken! Cool ... spaceships :-) You should photograph them and upload the pictures for sale to 123rf.com and other stock photograph sites. There's a lot of authors who can't find good stock photographs for our book covers.

[Andrei]

Wow, I'll check out the interview right now. I've always admired the incredible complexity of his stories, also the sheer number of words this man can produce.

[Ken]

Anna,

Unfortunately, I only have time to do the models that are related to my stories. Having my ships on someone else's covers would be like writing a Star Trek novel and putting a star destroyer on the cover. At least in my eyes. For now at least, I'm all about using the models to brand my own universe.

[Anna]

Ken wrote: "Unfortunately, I only have time to do the models that are related to my stories..."

Ahh ... of course. So we will all just have to keep hunting for cool pictures of spaceships :-)

[[deleted user]]

Hi, I'm Elvina Drake, but I go by Elf. I used to be obsessed with Star Wars. I still adore it. I really like Firefly. I've watched some Star Trek and Star Gate.