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. […]
Trading In Danger Ch8
“There are two warships insystem, mercenaries.” Last chapter, the ansibles were blown, cutting off communication. Ky has decided to take precautionary action to undock from the station and run, in case someone is coming to shoot up the station and destroy it. That decision proves effective, as we learn there are warships in the system, […]
Moved To The Point Where I Must Write
I don’t listen to much Christian music. I find, like most Christian-centric entertainment that often it is cheesy, shoddily produced, focused on shoehorning a Bible verse in rather than telling a compelling narrative or creating good characters we can relate to. I said most, before people start emailing me with links to different Christian music/books/comics/films. However, […]
