There is a movement afoot, complete with manifesto, called Mundane SF. You may or may not have heard of it, but it does seem to be gaining a little traction to the point that Interzone is doing a Mundane SF issue. If you’re unfamiliar with the movement, there’s a post Read more…
I finally feel as if the Hostile Takeover sequel is moving forward reasonably well. This should make Sheila at DAW happy, she’s been waiting for it for an inordinately long time. Wolfbreed aside, I had stalled on the project because I hadn’t decided who the main characters were. I had Read more…
No one is perfect. Sometimes mistakes make it into print. Sometimes huge steaming mistakes get in without anyone noticing until you need to write a sequel and go, “oops how did that happen?” You can probably guess, there’s a goof in Hostile Takeover. What is it? Well here’s a hint Read more…
Everyone gets annoyed when someone flubs the continuity in an ongoing series. Fans will shout, “But that’s not what you all said back in Issue/Episode/Movie #X!” From the outside, it looks simple enough to keep track of established facts of your universe. Well, I have sympathy for all those poor Read more…
Wolfbreed is done, at least until someone buys it and asks for some sort of editorial revision. So I’ve returned to my long belated Hostile Takeover sequel. If you note the counters I’ve been keeping, I’ve removed Wolfbreed and added a counter for the sequel trilogy as a whole in Read more…
For Star Trek fans who thought James T. should have gone out in more of a blaze of glory… Got this from a thread on The Agony Booth.
According to Ridley Scott, SF Cinema is as dead as the Western, and also thinks all SF nowadays is derivative of 2001:A Space Odyssey. Nothing original is being done. . . Say what? Look, I know I’m an iconoclast when I say that 2001:A Space Odyssey is not the best Read more…
Due in January. Just got the cover: This one contains my story, “The Enigma of the Serbian Scientist.” Which is sort of a steampunk homage to Sherlock Holmes, wherein the murder victim is Thomas Edison. Judging by the description of the other stories (and the cover) I bucked a trend, Read more…
Ok, I know when the premise of your movie is flying a bomb the size of Manhattan into a dying sun you have something on your agenda other than scientific and logical plausibility. However, a film that’s largely a homage to 2001:A Space Odyssey should at least give the impression Read more…
Lois Tilton over at Deep Genre doesn’t like Libertarian SF, at least some Libertarian meme she sees as infecting some SF. In a nutshell her main complaint seems to be with the idea that space would be more “free” (meaning absence of regulation) when she sees the scarcity of resources Read more…