Fantasy With a Hint of Asian Spices
Writing Belief That Breathes What does it mean to truly believe something – and how should that shape a character’s every breath? Recently, I interviewed Arthur C. Clarke and Hugo Award winning author, Adrian Tchaikovsky in which we discussed his recent book Bee Speaker and the Dogs of War series. During the conversation the matter […]
Read More FAith Beyond the SurfaceI’m joined by Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Hugo Award winning Children of Time Series, Shadow of the Apt Series, Echoes of the Fall Series, Dogs of War Series, The Tyrant Philosophers Series, The Final Architecture Series, and a large number of standalone novels. He won the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Children of Time, […]
Read More Adrian Tchaikovsky InterviewI launched a podcast today titled … Fantasy and Faith. The first episode was just an intro episode looking at some of my history and the challenges I’ve faced as a writer. Its available on Substack and also on YouTube Podcasts. I would really appreciate your support on either channels. I’ve also published a collaborative […]
Read More Fantasy and FaithDepictions of violence are a staple of genre fiction. This can serve a number of purposes, least of all the glorification of violence. War in The Lord of the Rings was a reflection of the trauma experienced by Tolkien in the trenches. Abercrombie shows the fruitlessness of the cycle of violence in his First Law […]
Read More Fictional Violence vs RealityWatch legendary author, Ursula Le Guin, say it how it is at the National Book Awards, regarding genre fiction as literature, agency pricing, corporate fatwas and authors accepting the ill-treatment.
Read More Ursula Le Guin at the National Book AwardsMy rating: 4 of 5 stars “This will be my last final broadcast. I know I said that yesterday, and the day before, and all the days before that after climbing this salt ridge and lifting my whiskers to the star. But this must be, truly, the last. There is no more time. I am […]
Read More Book Review: Ansible 15716 by Stant LitoreMy rating: 4/5 for the series. The final volume in the Divided Worlds trilogy, that began with Disconnect and Disassemble. The research base that once was home to Zachary and thousands of others is now a frozen-over bunker on Europa, people only by the androids that were abandoned as the base lost all power. Zachary is […]
Read More Book Review: Disrupt by Imran SiddiqTwo days ago, Zachary was a nobody scavenger living in the bowels of a research base in space. Then he met a girl from the upper echelons of society and falls in love with her. One day ago, he finds himself the most wanted person on the space station and is being held responsible for […]
Read More Book Review: Disassemble, Imran SiddiqRating: 3/5 A boy from the wrong-side of the tracks falls in love with the daughter of an Ambassador, on-board a space-station sent to colonize Europa, kept apart by social and physical boundaries. Zachary Connor, a teenaged scavenger who lives with his father in a shanty-town located in the bowels of space-station Galilei. He discovers […]
Read More Book Review: Disconnect (Divided Worlds #1), by Imran SiddiqA giant toy robot looms over a pair of terrified marines, overlaid with the legend ‘Destroy All Robots’. The kitsch cover art of Darrin Grimwood’s new novel matches the cheesy creature-feature opening with a ship pulling into the cove of a mystery island, marines pouring out onto the beach and steely-eyed General declaring ‘Destroy All […]
Read More Book Review: Darrin Grimwood’s Destroy All Robots