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Introducing: Mark Joseph Young

We are pleased to announce that Mark Joseph Young had joined our little tribe of authors. Chaplain of the Christian Gamers Guild for over two decades, “M.J.” has two degrees in Biblical studies and a doctorate in law, and is known as co-creator of Multiverser:  The Game, and for his work on Temporal Anomalies in […]

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Smoke Sturgeon

Tonight is dress rehearsal. Yep, that’s right, I’m in a play. Well sorta. Technically. it’s a “reading”. Of course, you can’t put on plays in the middle of a pandemic. But the local theatre groups are getting creative, as theatre types are wont to do. So, it’s a socially distanced staged reading in front of […]

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SciFi Roundtable Podcast

Ken Goudsward has joined the co-hosting team of the Sci-Fi Roundtable Podcast. Make sure you subscribe, as I will be on the next four episodes, plus continuing on a regular basis (though not necessarily every episode). Anyway, this is a fun discussion. Here we discuss Lost Civilizations, and upcoming episodes cover sci-fi tech, time travel […]

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Thoughts On Hard Sci-Fi. Take 1

Many readers eschew technical details. I have already been accused of being too technical. In other words, the computational aspects of my story require a certain hardness, so I do write HARD SF, and for consistency I need to maintain this level if possible as these hard readers are the readers who will stick with me. […]

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Structure Without Theme

Thinking about story structure a lot this week. The heroes journey, save the cat, the three acts. These seem a bit too formulaic to me. Not that they can’t work though. I guess the biggest issue is that there’s no explicit need for theme. They could to easily become just a series of actions with […]