A few quotes from around the web this last day or so made me think about why I love Science Fiction and what makes it interesting. As a kid, what made me gravitate toward Sci-Fi was the unknown, staring up into the stars and wondering what’s out there so far away. This led me to […]
Archives for January 2017
Trading In Danger Ch13
“Age and experience are independent variables.” Got a little bit behind by missing Friday due to work commitments, but still going through the book! I love the quote above, as that is supreme life advice against judging a book by its cover.
Interview with Cirsova Magazine Editor P. Alexander
Cirsova Magazine is a short science fiction and fantasy magazine that I discovered recently through mutual acquaintances. I’m not involved in the magazine, haven’t contributed any stories and nor have any friends who have, so my interest in this is purely out of passion for the kinds of stories they are telling with this magazine. […]
Trading In Danger Ch12
“This is outrageous! This is nothing but a cargo hold! It’s not even warm!” This chapter gets into a bit of the procedural aspects of the merc-given mission to Ky and her crew that they will be taking on 50 new passengers, straining their environmental and capacity capabilities. While I believe it will escalate […]
Trading in Danger Ch11
“What I have to propose now affects us both.” I continue with my read through and analysis of Elizabeth Moon’s Trading In Danger. This chapter is quite the roller coaster. High emotion, high conflict, and a big twist to the plot. I can’t speak for certain, but a little bit past the halfway point, this […]
Trading in Danger Ch10
Some idiot — possibly their employers and possibly someone else — had blown both ansibles in this system, and ISC would be crawling all over this place sometime soon. Nobody wanted trouble with ISC. Much apologies for the delay in this read through of Elizabeth Moon’s wonderful work. I’d written 4,000+ words of blog post […]
New A’s Post On Athletics Nation
Which you can read here: http://www.athleticsnation.com/2017/1/23/14363808/a-rebuttal-to-as-refuse-to-rebuild
Geekchats with Android: Netrunner Designer Damon Stone
Geekchats returns with its first installment for 2017! Last year we started this wonderful series with NYT Bestselling Author, Todd McCaffrey, as well as Amazon Bestselling Author, Michael J. Sullivan. I am super excited to talk about theme and gaming with Damon Stone. We’ve been on panels in person at a convention talking about just […]
Overanalyzing The New Star Wars Movie Title
At least it’s a fun topic for an internet that’s been anything but fun lately, eh? I’ve seen a couple of major threads going around in people’s posts this morning regarding the new Star Wars movie title unveiled today. One, that it brings back the member berries of The Last Starfighter, which I have to […]
Being Grateful
Science Fiction author Sharon Lee made a tweet this morning which got me to thinking: The internet really is a Slough of Despond lately. Now it’s always been that way to some extent, to paraphrase the epic film Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the internet is about bitching about movies. We’ve gone full tilt on that scale to […]
Elizabeth Moon’s Trading In Danger – The Catch Up Post!
Happy Saturday everyone! over the last couple weeks I’ve been doing a casual study/read of Elizabeth Moon’s awesome space opera novel, Trading In Danger. This is the first book in the Vatta’s War series. Ms. Moon is a master in this genre, and this series is worth the study for writers and Space Opera fans […]
Trading In Danger Ch9
“Were you planning to wake sleeping beauty?” Ky asked. “Or were you waiting for a prince?” I would have expected that the big attack was coming from the mercenaries, but it didn’t. This chapter shows that there’s some down time between when the merc cruisers get in range and as the Glennys moseys off into space. […]
