So those who have been around here for a while are likely to be aware that my fantasy novel Dragon Stones was and remains by far my post popular book, having even been, briefly, the #1 fantasy novel in the Kindle UK store.
(Don’t) Mind the Gap
Category: Writing
Teaser Tuesday: “All Systems Red”
So this week I was reading All Systems Red, the first novella in “The Introvertbot Murderbot Diaries”, the multiple-award-winning series by Martha Wells:
Teaser Tuesday: “Space Opera”
So this week I was reading Space Opera, by one of my favorite authors, Catherynne M. Valente:
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Teaser Tuesday: “The Seventh Sword” Collection
So this week, and likely for several weeks yet to come*, I have been reading The Seventh Sword, an omnibus collecting the four books in “The Seventh Sword” series, by Dave Duncan:
Teaser Tuesday: “The Gone-Away World”
So this week I was reading The Gone-Away World, by Nick Harkaway:
Teaser Tuesday: “The Boy Who Lost Fairyland”
So this week I was reading The Boy Who Lost Fairyland, the next-to-last entry in Catherynne M. Valente’s “Fairyland” series (not counting a couple of interstitial short stories):
Teaser Tuesday: “The Stone Sky”
So this week I’ve been reading The Stone Sky, by N.K. Jemisin, the final book in “The Broken Earth” trilogy:
The premise of this trilogy is, basically, that the Earth hates humanity and is trying to destroy it via disasters both natural and man-made.
And here you thought I only read fiction.
Continue reading “Teaser Tuesday: “The Stone Sky””Teaser Tuesday: “The Lost Fleet: Fearless”
So this week I was reading The Lost Fleet: Fearless, by Jack Campbell, which is the follow-up to The Lost Fleet: Dauntless.
Random Rejection: Epitaph, “Trailblazing”
So this week I reached into my vast trove of rejection letters, as directed by the Gods of Randomness, and pulled out this short rejection, from the old magazine Epitaph, a division of Pirate Writings:
Continue reading “Random Rejection: Epitaph, “Trailblazing””Teaser Tuesday: “A Scanner Darkly”
So this week I was reading A Scanner Darkly, a shortish dystopian novel by some guy named Philip K. Dick. Maybe you’ve heard of him. If not, you’ve almost certainly heard of the movie Blade Runner, which was based on his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?*
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