Here is a write-up of the worldbuilding workshop I attended at virtual Worldcon last month. Fantasy author Claire Bartlett ran a sci-fi and fantasy worldbuilding workshop for eight writers at (virtual) ConZealand last month. This was an excellent workshop and included a great group exercise. Top down or
Last month, I introduced you to my ‘Taking on the Boloverse’ project and blogged about The Compleat Bolo, an anthology of Bolo stories written by Keith Laumer. This week, I’m going to talk about Honor of the Regiment, the first in a series of Baen books adding stories
I didn’t intend to blog about ConZealand. I thought I might blog about my Hugo Awards ballot… maybe. Then I had the misfortune to wake up to Tweets about the Hugo Awards ceremony. I started watching it, began messaging a friend with a live paraphrase
Last week, I asked Tom Kratman: are giant tanks outdated? This week, Tom and I talk about his giant tank novella Big Boys Don’t Cry. And I ask: does a sentient tank REALLY need a crystalline brain? And can you tell a brain from a computer
Last week, I blogged about Keith Laumer’s The Compleat Bolo. This week’s blogpost is a discussion between Tom Kratman and I on the topic of whether giant tanks are a viable future technology. Tom and I are collaborating to turn his Hugo-nominated novella, Big Boys Don’t
Last week, I introduced you to my ‘Taking on the Boloverse’ project. My aim, to blog my research for a novel based on Tom Kratman‘s Hugo-nominated novella Big Boys Don’t Cry. This week, I finished The Compleat Bolo, an anthology of Bolo stories written by American airforce
If you’ve ever fancied a mash-up courtroom drama where the defendant is a giant tank, I may have EXACTLY the book for you… Everyone likes HUMUNGOUS mecha, right? And legal-suspense thrillers? Well, perhaps not everyone. I’m a huge fan of John Grisham thrillers, but may be
Could aliens be blocking the progress of human science? Well, that’s a science fiction plot, but it has some truth behind it… In science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem, the alien Trisolarans send advanced AIs to block the progress of human science until their invasion fleet arrives. The
Madgeniusclub has an interesting article for SF&F writers on building web presence: 1- Be you. Don’t try to sound educated, or professorial or anything of the kind, unless that is who you are, naturally. Just be you. I swear readers can smell “Phony” a mile off.
Online self-segregation gets written about a lot these days. That’s where people never encounter anyone who disagrees on Facebook and Twitter. They’ve unfriended or unfollowed dissenters on Facebook or are victims of software that tailors information to their worldview. But what happens if you leave your filter bubble? Well, about eighteen months
