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And Now For Something Completely Different…
…a new web site! It’s not, you know, completely new. But as 2020 dragged on to its ninety-eighth year and my Battle Ring Earth space opera series slated for a drop in early 2021, I was starting to feel like a bored teenage with a bottle of hair dye…I needed a new place to put…
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And Now: A Sci-Fi Bridge Summer Giveaway!
Heinlein said there’s no such thing as a free lunch but there can be free books. And the folks at Sci-Fi Bridge are offering you a chance to grab 30+ of them! All you have to do is sign up to Sci-Fi Bridge for a chance to win 30+ Sci-Fi eBooks. All who enter will…
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NYC Expocalypse, Book 2: Greenstreets, Arrives!
The story of ex-phone jock and current metaphysical warrior Julie Meyers continues, available on Amazon… Julie Meyers is having a bad week. After defeating the Broadway Bull the former Hungry Corp. sales jock thought that fleeing New York City on a borrowed yacht with a few allies would be a quick path to freedom. Just…
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Introducing Warrior’s Tribute: A LitRPG Gives Back Anthology
This collection of 12 short LitRPG / Gamelit / Wuxia stories came about as a labor of love and a desire to give back to those who serve and protect us all in the armed forces. Each of these stories is an original crafted by some of the best authors in the LitRPG / Gamelit…
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Introducing MOHS 5.5: Megastructures!
“Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests,” wrote the celebrated science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. In these pages, a spectacular collection of science fiction authors – newcomers and veterans, bestsellers and debuts—clash thusly over one of Clarke’s most famous motifs: extreme feats of…
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Moving Around Again
Hi there. You’ll notice the blog looks a little different, which would be because we moved to a new website by way of BlueHost.com. I’m figuring out how to manage the blog’s appeareance now and I’ll be adding more links to books and so on as the days progress. Bear with me…I’m getting it done.
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2017 Isn’t ‘1984’
2017 isn’t ‘1984’ – it’s stranger than Orwell imagined John Broich, Case Western Reserve University A week after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, George Orwell’s “1984” is the best-selling book on Amazon.com. The hearts of a thousand English teachers must be warmed as people flock to a novel published in 1949 for ways to think about…
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The Smartest Ones in the Room: A Review of Hidden Figures
In 1961, America was all about the mission. A directive that sounds simple was but was anything but. The Space Race between the USA and the USSR was on. Both sides were engaged in a game of technological Can You Top This? and the Russians were winning. Cold War America was held in the grip…
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We’re Back!
So you’ll remember a few weeks ago when this site disappeared for a few days, then a few days ago when it returned with nothing more current than 2008 posted on it. The short story is that ThirdScribe had a major problem with its ISP, and many of their sites (including mine) were sacrificed to…
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The Day After Publishing
As you’ll remember in our last exciting episode of The Rogue Scholar, I pushed the Publish button on Article 9, my first proper SciFi novel. Since then, I’ve pushed the button on the Print-On-Demand version of the book as well, so if you shun electronics in favor of printed copy, you now have an option.…