I came across a post on Medium today about Penguicon, another converged Science Fiction and Fantasy convention that has prioritized their politics over creating a fun event. Most people who read know about my history with BayCon, and how horribly they treated me after it came out that I voted “wrong” in the Presidential election […]
Rislandia Needs You!
By royal missive of King Malaky XVI on this 15th day of the Month of Queens, during the 19th year of his reign: Rislandia needs you! The evil Wyranth Empire is nipping at the heels of our border, and we need strong soldiers to fight back against the tides of darkness from the south! First, we […]
The Most Epic Book Giveaway Ever? #MASSIVEsffGA
Pleased to announce that I am a part of a MASSIVE giveaway of paperback books. Someone will win 50 Science Fiction and Fantasy books from this really cool contest, including one of the most talked about Space Opera books of 2016, Amazon Top-10 Space Opera Bestseller and Alliance Award Nominated Star Realms: Rescue Run! You’ll […]
Retro Review: Star Wars: Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn
Last week, the new book Thrawn by Timothy Zahn came out, a book I didn’t expect to see until it was announced. It hit #2 on the NYT Bestsellers list, so big congratulations to Mr. Zahn. I picked it up, but I wanted to reread the original Thrawn Trilogy first as it’s been about 19 […]
Congrats Mike Cernovich, White House Press Correspondent
Mike Cernovich is such an inspiration to independent journalists and commentators everywhere. I’ve been following him since I discovered him midway through last year, and he always brings a unique perspective to stories that the mainstream fake news media either lies about or glosses over. It’s propelled him to be featured on 60 Minutes, which […]
Engagement Is More Important Than Number Of Followers
Late last year, after being personally attacked as usual, I got into it with a different writer friend of author M. Todd Gallowglas — who I want everyone to know totally is associated with me and has been my friend for a number of years, and who would certainly love for you to mention how you […]
I Can’t Believe I Missed This!
For some reason, it was in my mind that this was coming out in May. It’s no secret that Elizabeth Moon is one of my favorite authors, my writing has been compared to hers on numerous occasions (of which I am honored but not deserving!), and I definitely do use her work as a model […]
The Best Of My Flash Fiction
I wrote a lot for Doomtown: Reloaded for a couple years there, but these three flash fics are the favorite I’ve written so far: Clean Up Call for The Captain Is Dead game: https://www.alderac.com/blog/2016/11/24/captain-dead-clean-call-jon-del-arroz/ Project Scarecrow for Uprising Review: Project Scarecrow Lula Morgan for the Doomtown Reloaded card game: https://www.alderac.com/doomtown/2014/12/03/double-dealin-preview-lula-morgan/ Enjoy! […]
Sci-Fi Movie Review: Passengers
Most of you are probably already aware that I liked this movie, as it made my list for the 2017 Dragon Award nominations for best Sci-Fi film. Part of that was a lack of other great sci-fi films in this last year, but that doesn’t mean that I enjoyed Passengers any less. The concept of […]
#ESPNIsOverParty: More Convergence At Disney Subsidiaries
I won’t lie, I stopped watching ESPN more than a decade ago. This train wreck was coming for a long time, but I didn’t think the nail in the coffin would be due to virtue signalling politics overriding its core mission as a company. The reason I stopped is because of the extreme east coast […]
Jon Del Arroz’s Based Dragon Award Recommendations
Ran a poll yesterday on which blog my readers would like to see next, and the winner by no uncertain terms was my recommendation for Dragon Award nominations. If you haven’t seen the Dragon Awards before, they are the premier award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, given at Dragon*Con, arguably the best convention that exists. […]
When The Opposition Media Makes No Sense
Some of my favorite mornings are when my blog gets a truckload of angry comments. It means that not only have I done something right, but that somewhere out there, fake news has completely twisted what I said to imply what I didn’t say. Today, it was phony outrage about giving out free books to […]
