Last week, I popped into a gas station’s mini-mart and had a short conversation with the employee there. He was a really friendly older gentleman with an accent I couldn’t place, and I didn’t ask where he hailed from. We talked family, work, life, and it came away a positive conversation despite what probably were […]
Quick Shots
Far too busy to blog much today, but I will leave you with 3 awesome tidbits: Reading Poul Anderson’s Fire Time – Centaurs under a twin sun with barbarians at the gate. A space fleet of humans who may intervene. And they drink beer and smoke tobacco. Epic #PulpRevolution. #BasedStickMan: American Hero The Corroding Empire […]
Congratulations to Mike Glyer and File 770
Today it was announced that they are on the short list for a hugo nomination for best fanzine from the Rabid Puppies and Vox Day. Truly a wondrous achievement for them. As a person who is completely responsible for most of their traffic in February, in a lot of ways, it’s like getting nominated myself. […]
Never So Excited To Get A Box (Star Realms!)
I found out a couple weeks ago that Star Realms has produced a new storage box through Legion Supplies. The little boxes that the base game comes in barely stores those cards as it is, and so when you sleeve your cards (pro-tip you should always put game cards in protective sleeves, especially if you’re […]
Why A Revolution In Sci-Fi Is Necessary
This morning I had a conversation with what you would call an average reader. It’s not a rabid convention goer, not an author who’s got his favorite reads and plugging his friends, but a person who periodically reads books for fun and relaxation and happens to like to explore strange, new worlds. The kind of […]
More From The Anti-Christian/Conservative Bigots In SF/F
I hate having to post about this sort of thing so often, as I would like to have fun and enjoy astounding strange new worlds with thrills, action, adventure and romance… but unfortunately a group has been so brainwashed by a small but vocal group of haters that they will shout down anything, even a […]
I posted a joke and a hashtag on Gab.ai and you’ll never believe what happened next ;)
I love Gab. It’s fun. It’s free speech. I feel safe there where other social media has left me and many others open to harassment and vitriol of a sort that prior to 2016, I’d never seen on anywhere except for 4chan. One thing on gab that’s been almost impossible to topple, is their top […]
It’s #WorldBooksDay!
I found out because of the hashtag on twitter. This is a wonderful thing! If you’d like to help out your friendly neighborhood author me, I would be much appreciative if you, my trusty reader friends, would share up Star Realms: Rescue Run with the hashtag #WorldBooksDay in order to help further get the word […]
Catholic Geek Radio: Sunday 3/5
Pleased to announce that I’ll be a guest on Catholic Geek Radio this Sunday, March 5th at 1:00 PM Pacific Standard Time. We’ll be talking about Space Opera, what makes it good, what makes it bad, and everything in between (probably mostly rambling about Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9… hopefully with a little Star […]
Lent Day 1!
I did it, I’ve made it through a full 24 hours without checking my facebook feed. That’s the hardest part, right? It helped that it was a pretty busy day at work, but I don’t really find myself jonesing for that content. Most of facebook feeds now are all about negativity and fear mongering and […]
SJW Mike Glyer Doubles Down
I don’t know what this guy’s got against me. I’ve never talked to him, met him, or had any interaction with him. I added him recently after he posted a fake news article about me, when he didn’t even bother to contact me for my comments on some libelous allegations that Baycon made to try […]
CLFA Book Of The Year Awards
Nominations are set and the link is below for voting. I’ve read about half the books on this list, and almost all of them are by friends so this is pretty exciting. Happy voting! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/795FRFS
