My MMO of choice is Guild Wars 2. Insult me at will. I shelled out for this game and the reason I got my gaming tower is so it runs smoothly. I was fascinated by the charr race and that’s what my character is. They are, of course, basically the kzinti, including their past historyContinue reading “Bad Guys Who are All the Bad”
Category Archives: Uncategorized
KZ’s Hallmark Christmas Movie Drinking Game
Pour some Rudolphtinis, spike some hot chocolate, or go the easy route of the writer and keep a bottle of wine on hand. It’s time (past time, really) for my Hallmark Christmas movie drinking game. I warn you, if you follow all of these, you won’t last long.
Earth-Moon Weirdness
When it comes to writing sci-fi, there are lots of ways to create interesting planets that are not “one biome from Earth, but everywhere”. This perfectly respectable in soft sci-fi and may be possible for the likes of ice planets (Hoth) or desert planets (Tatooine), considering the conditions that create tundra and dune seas. They’dContinue reading “Earth-Moon Weirdness”
Happy Halloween!
Enjoy your spooky day! I am entirely too busy to celebrate properly, so I’m looking to all you out on the internet to make up for it. Big book news coming soon!
Book Review: The Belisarius Saga
This one is a trip, let me tell ya. Eric Flint and David Drake seemed to have decided that they want to fix history and this is the result. With a bit of sci-fi twist as a catalyst.
In Memoriam: Gene Wolfe
Everything Gene Wolfe wrote was weird. I mean this in the best possible way. His worlds were expansive and strange. He had a gift for understanding how the man in the street felt and thoughts about the weirdness in his world. His passing means that something great has gone from sci-fi, though we will haveContinue reading “In Memoriam: Gene Wolfe”
Book Review: The Marcus Corvinus Series
I’m actually not one for historical novels much, though I love history and I especially love Roman history. However, Roman historical novels tend to…over-modernize. For a period of which we have extensive but hardly compete records, many authors decide to be too anachronistic in any number of ways. Sometimes it’s as bad as having theContinue reading “Book Review: The Marcus Corvinus Series”
A Guide to Heart of Darkness: Part 1
Intro Heart of Darkness is a frame tale, a novel where a story is told within another story. It may actually be several frame tales in one, but we’ll get there when we get there. We begin by joining the author’s company on a cruise along the mouth of the Thames, where they watch theContinue reading “A Guide to Heart of Darkness: Part 1”
Book Review: Magic in Ithkar
First of all, aren’t those just beautiful covers? Lovely artwork. The Magic in Ithkar books hit a certain sort of sweet spot for me. The setting pulls off something you rarely see anymore: coexistence of magic and technology. Well, really the muddling of the two, as the old saw of “any sufficiently developed technology isContinue reading “Book Review: Magic in Ithkar”
