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Worldbuilding Essay
Is now on Scribd, after being on my website for ages, I made a PDF of it and released it to the world. Plot will follow at some point.
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Aliens and Sexual Politics
There’s an interesting post on the Feminist SF Blog about aliens in Larry Niven’s Known Space series. Essentially it points out how both the Kzinti and the Puppeteers both have what amount to non-sapient females, and how this amounts to a stealth misogyny. An interesting point that I think goes Read more…
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Mary Who?
I recently responded on a thread on Whateveresque about the term “Mary Sue,” its use and misuse and its drift from fanfic circles into more mainstream criticism. To review (for those who didn’t just click and read the Wikipedia link I provided) the term “Mary Sue” originated in Star Trek Read more…
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I be Scribd
First off: I’ve added “The Heavens Fall” to my Pixel-Stained Technopeasantry. It originally appeared in the DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction Anthology, and was subsequently reprinted in Apex Online. It is a little sf/horror/crime drama. Also, it may be my penchant for irony, but I’ve uploaded my two fictional trial Read more…
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Psssst, bud, wanna short story?
Well, I’m starting a little experiment here. I am going to start releasing some of my short stories under a creative commons license. I’m a little bit of a latecomer to this, and I’m not Cory Doctrow or Rudy Rucker, but let’s see if throwing free stuff out there gets Read more…
Apotheosis Trilogy
Inside the front cover
Well, I am just about halfway done with the first draft of Apotheosis: Prophets. I have reached a point where I am willing to hazard a prediction. You know most books, in addition to the (usually badly written) back cover copy, there’s almost always some edited snippet of the actual Read more…
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Random Thoughts
There’s a cottage industry out there for various random plot/name/whatever generators out there on the interweb. Want a plot? A title? How’s bout a name for one of your characters? Maybe you need the whole story? Working on a TV series or a movie, you can get your own random Read more…
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Time Marches On. . .
. . .and provides an example of a point I was making over ten years ago. You may or may not have visited my home page, which predates this blog by about a dozen years or so, if you have, buried in the writing portion are a couple of essays Read more…
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I is playing wit mai toyz
I added a new little feature to the blog here. In the lower right there’s now a widget that’s keeping track of writing posts I flag on RSS feeds I’m subscribing to with Google Reader. Google Reader not only lets you share items from a feed on their own public Read more…
Apotheosis Trilogy
When book covers do it right
Working on Apotheosis (going well, thank you for asking) I’ve found myself digging in my old notes for Hostile Takeover. And I found a little sketch I made of the character Flower, when I was figuring out what the Volerans looked like. Now I’m not a very good artist (I Read more…