I’ve been watching a lot of Star Trek as I’m prepping my space exploration series and doing my writing so I can get the feel right for the readers. Because of this, I realized I could start reviewing episodes for everyone. I’ve started mostly with The Next Generation but am also slowly making my way […]
Space Opera
Star Wars Creators, Media Lash Out At Star Wars Fans In Attempt To Sweep Their Failure Under The Rug
Ever since Solo debut in the box office, we’ve been hearing rumblings from the media about how the film was a dismal failure. Forbes came out with an article on May 27th calling it a “bomb”, following several articles across the internet where it mentioned Disney was ready for the movie to fail. In some […]
Book Blast: The Stones Of Silence by Peter Grant
Peter Grant is a man who has my utmost respect, and is a wonderful author. He penned one of my favorite books, Brings The Lightning, which won the CLFA Book Of The Year Award last year (of which my book, For Steam and Country is the winner this year). So he’s a man I like […]
Retro Review: The Rebel Worlds by Poul Anderson
The next story in the Dominic Flandry series brings about another change for the character. Ensign Flandrey brought us a nice war with the Mersians and showed how one world escalated a galactic conflict. A Circus of Hells showed Dominic floating around doing spy work, expanded the Mersian conflict, and it truly felt like a […]
Retro Review: A Circus Of Hells by Poul Anderson
A couple of weeks ago I reviewed Ensign Flandry, the first of the character of Dominic Flandry, and I was so impressed with the space opera that I found myself eagerly awaiting the second book. Been actually rereleased these books as 3-book omnibuses in a seven volume set a few years back, so I was […]
Why Disney Can’t Make A Good Star Wars Film To Save Their Soul
Disney just can’t do Star Wars. They don’t understand it. And there’s a big reason why—they’re a soulless monolithic corporation trying to recapture nostalgia in a property that is really about intense spirituality. You can’t create spirituality if you have none. Star Wars really fell off my radar after The Last Jedi, which I found […]
Space Opera Talk With David V. Stewart
I went on author David V. Stewart’s youtube this weekend which did really great, over 1000 views. We delved deep into writing and genre, and I think it was one of the more interesting streams I’ve recorded. Now we’re about one week into The Stars Entwined‘s launch, which has gone really fantastic. Though I didn’t have […]
Jon Del Arroz’s Epic Military Science Fiction Extravaganza
On Tuesday, March 20th, I’m releasing my new Mil SF book, The Stars Entwined. A book reviewer sent this to me: A welcome window into a new sci-fi space opera from the pen of John Del Arroz, After reading both his previous works I was honored at the chance to get a review copy of […]
Book Review: Dream Of The Iron Dragon by Robert Kroese
I’ve been a fan of Robert Kroese for a couple of years. I discovered him with The Big Sheep, which is an excellent novel, and went into his Rex Nihilo adventures, which are a star wars-ish parody that really is a love letter to sci-fi. What they have in common is a lot of comedy, […]
Space Opera and Spirituality
Yesterday I had a good question from another writer about characters with spirituality in space opera making for something important to the genre — or better stories. I thought about it over the course of the evening, and in context of the discussion with DS9 and Babylon 5. Deep Space 9 was the first Star […]
What I Wanted From Space Opera
We’re about 15 days out of The Stars Entwined‘s release, and I want to shift gears to talk about space opera. 1999 saw the end of an era on TV with both Babylon 5 and Deep Space 9 going off the air. Those shows really were the blueprint for great space opera on TV, with […]
Richard Fox’s The Ember War: Comic Adaptation!
Yesterday, Castalia House made a big announcement, which is going to make a much bigger splash in the entertainment world than a lot of people might realize. I’ve signed with their new comic imprint to adapt Richard Fox’s bestselling military science fiction novel The Ember War into a graphic novel. Fox is one of the biggest […]
