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I saw a great post on twitter from Devin Grayson, somewhat ironically a former Batman writer for DC, which got me thinking about our culture in general. I love this advice. Like what you like, ignore what you don’t. There’s no “canon” that’s for real in anything fiction, as none of it is real. It […]

Over the weekend I released my new novella, Mech Training, which follows my Steam Knight James Gentry’s adventures as the saga of Rislandia unfolds. If you’ve read the Steam Knight, this will be the direct next sequence for his stories, and it takes place in the middle of The Iron Wedding as James and Ethan […]

All the way back in 1948, the golden age of science fiction, Heinlein had just finished with Rocket Ship Galileo, a masterpiece of fun fiction, moving onto his next project after such a rounding success. This one is Red Planet, an allegory for the American revolution, dealing with company bureaucrats who are messing with colonists […]

Just when it looked like things calmed down on the Twitter front, they’ve reversed direction again. I’ve noticed a big difference in the last month with engagement, a lack of throttling, finally getting new followers again. It’s been a new experience with shadowbans looking like they’ve been removed. But as soon as Carpe Donktum’s video […]

I’ve seen far too many of these instances in the last couple of years, proclaiming a great alternative to Twitter and Facebook, going to revolutionize everything. They come up too fast, they’re not ready for prime time, and there’s always a major issue with the platform. Parler seems to have a few issues with it: […]

With all the #MeToo allegations in sci-fi and comics this last week, it’s no surprise it’s come back around to everyone’s favorite Library destroyer, Chuck Wendig, famous prior to this for writing poor star wars books and inserting sexual deviancy into them: How terrible to be such a fake ally to the feminist community to […]