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 […]
Authors Who Care About Fans And Readers
I am pleased to make an announcement on behalf of several great authors in the Science Fiction and Fantasy community.That announcement is: fans, we care about you, and we want you to have a good time. We support your coming out to express yourself in fandom. A couple of weeks ago, an invited headlining guest flaked […]
The Uprising Review (Feat. Jon Del Arroz)
Over on Gab.ai (the best social media network on the internet as they allow free speech, don’t shadowban or ban anyone), I met a couple of editors and writers who had an ambitious project they wanted to launch. That project is the Uprising Review. The concept of this site is to provide true free speech for […]
Winning, Mindset, and Habits
One of the most common questions i get asked these days is how I’m so productive with a job, family, kids, all my hobbies and whatnot. The truth is that the all my hobbies really don’t occupy much of my time. While I have a wide variety of passionate interests in sci-fi, baseball, gaming, science […]
Wrongthink Sci-Fi Giveaway
http://badnovelist.com/announcing-the-wrongthink-sci-fi-giveaway/ Some of my favorite writers are running a giveaway for their books. This is a pretty phenomenal group, and of course they are all terrible horrible wrongthinkers who should probably be banned from publishing. So if you want to read why their ideas are so dangerous, you can for free! Great deal. Incredible […]
The Last Crusade: On Loyalty
You’ll find quite often with the worldly that there’s a distinct lack of loyalty. As soon as you start letting it be known you’re a Christian, speaking out on Christianity, spending time and energy with your Christian brothers and sisters – you’ll notice that your former friends will begin to ostracize you. They’ll find a […]
