Amazing Stories

Amazing Stories

Apple has announced plans to revive the 1980s science fiction anthology TV series Amazing Stories for their video streaming service. Apple is close to a deal on a reboot of Amazing Stories to air as one of their first original programming attempts. Deadline reports that the company is in talks with…
October 11, 20171 Comment
Ophian Rising Preview

Ophian Rising Preview

It's my pleasure to report to my loyal readers that work on The Ophian Rising, Soul Cycle Book IV is proceeding well. In the meantime, I hope you enjoy this preview. “Guide me to the ether mine, Tallon,” the smuggler said to the empty corridor in a mocking imitation of Astlin’s…
October 10, 20176 Comments
Cuphead

Cuphead

This week, my Geek Gab co-host Dorrinal gives his review of Cuphead, the slick shoot-em-up platformer that's giving games journalists fits. Bonus: in-depth reviews of the new Flatliners and Blade Runner 2049! Listen and learn! And so can you!
October 9, 2017
PRAXIS Delivers Blue-collar Science Fiction

PRAXIS Delivers Blue-collar Science Fiction

Praxis, the new blue-collar science fiction novel from author Justin Knight, is now available in the Kindle Store! Big New York publishers are in decline. Decades of trying to pick winners based on politics have left them with a stable of authors more interested in delivering lectures than fun stories.…
October 6, 20173 Comments
How to Polish Your Prose

How to Polish Your Prose

In the latest installment of Geek Gab: On the Books, I draw from my editing experience to offer writing advice to aspiring authors. How do you avoid the most common writing mistakes made by new authors? How can authors identify and break bad writing habits? Why does second person POV…
October 5, 2017
Whither Hollywood?

Whither Hollywood?

Vox Popoli commenter ZhukovG ponders the future of films based on best selling novels in the post-Big Five era. Just my uneducated opinion, but it appears that in the future, if you put in the work, it will be easier to 'make a living' as a writer but much harder…
October 4, 201710 Comments
Praxis

Praxis

There's been a great deal of discussion lately among serious, intelligent people about how to save science fiction. It's an open secret that SF once dominated in print as it now does in film, on television, and in video games. But the concerted efforts of malicious gatekeepers have relegated the…
September 29, 20176 Comments
Larry Correia vs. the Campbellian Memory Hole

Larry Correia vs. the Campbellian Memory Hole

The International Lord of Hate recently waded into a FaceBook thread started by author Mark Wandrey that had been darkened by a Campbellian Kool-Aid swiller who showed up to lecture the best-selling authors' fans about how hard science fiction is the only science fiction. Glenn: "Lowbrow readers want to be told…
September 28, 201725 Comments
Soft Narcissism

Soft Narcissism

Alex over at Amatopia continues the discussion on conservatism's cultural failures begun by myself and Rawle Nyanzi. Alex's contribution is to go a bit more in-depth about why conservatives abandoned the field to Leftists in the arts. I contend that by abandoning the arts, conservatives created this illusion of being…
September 27, 20174 Comments
The Convergence of Science Fiction

The Convergence of Science Fiction

YouTuber Max Kolbe recently had me on his show to explain how the SJW convergence of tradpub science fiction happened. Max is particularly interested in the sudden shift from stories that took the Christian worldview for granted to overtly atheistic, anti-religious works. We discussed how John W. Campbell ended the…
September 22, 201716 Comments