Category: Fiction

I’m about 1/3 of the way through a reading of Starforgers, trying to clean it up so that my beta readers can read it in July. Once I turn it over to them, I will not think about it for…

One of the most common questions I get about writing novels is: How long does it take you to write a whole novel? If you don’t count all the subsequent drafts and edits and only count the months it took…

As I wind up the first draft of Starforgers, I’m already planning the third book in this Star Series:  Starveyers. In the requisite down time after a first draft, I will be working on the outline of Starveyers.  The plan is to…

What if the great Android Revolt that Sci-Fi authors have always wrote about was not a bloody, doomsday event at all. What if they just didn’t want to do our laundry anymore and they all decided to leave? best online…

I printed my novel outline for Starforgers and it was four pages long in landscape. This is the finished outline for the nearly finished novel. I’m down to the last two chapters for the first draft. It’s sitting at around…

I’m not sure how many writers create Science Fiction on Linux, but I’ll wager that not to many of us do. Off hand, I only know of Cory Doctorow and myself. If you are a published SF author and create…

I don’t write classic ray gun Space Opera. I don’t write the New Space Opera, whatever that is. I write My Space Opera. My Space Opera is part Military Science Fiction, part Sci-Fantasy, part Asimov, part Alan Dean Foster, and…

I don’t know about you, but I find the idea of self-aware androids believing in some kind of human religion, illogical. I think Battlestar Galactica totally missed the boat on this; the Cylons should have been trying to understand humans,…