Scott Sigler is one of the reasons I have a job. I Should Be Writing, Variant Frequencies and Scott’s Ancestor are the three podcasts that got me into the industry. Scott’s brand of foot on the accelerator, heavy metal SF remains one of the most fun games in town and it’s a pleasure to see …
It’s an interesting time to be a comic reader. There are some brilliant, shining examples of the medium being published at the moment and I could spend ages listing the fantastic books you need to be reading. Likewise, I could go into detail about the various scandals and outrages, some small, some not large enough, …
San Francisco is magic. I09 highlighted how Toby Harriman, using time lapse and some very smart soundtrack choices, proves that. He turns a city defined by its size and space, by the bay that it wraps around and the bridges that connect it into a still beautiful but darker place. The sort of place that …
Jen Williams is one of a small, elite group of authors who’ve turned me round on fantasy fiction. Along with compatriots like Andrew Reid and Den Patrick she writes stories about refreshingly normal, flawed people faced with impossible situations. All three authors have a tremendous ear for a good bit of profanity, all three …
RedEye has set itself a difficult task; produce horror that’s YA suitable but remains true to the needs of the genre. Lou Morgan’s Sleepless did an excellent job of showing how this could be done picking apart of teenage expectation and pressure with the twin scalpels of horror and insomnia. It’s a Hell of …
The more I play Dying Light, the more I’m impressed by the humanity of it. The characters in the game are just that; characters. Real, flawed, occasionally deeply weird people who’ve carved out a life for themselves in a city where life is very much at a premium. Interacting with them is much more fun …
Specifically, the moon of asteroid 2004 BL86 which passed close to the Earth late in January. ‘Close’ this being space, was three times the distance between Earth and the Moon. That being said, the Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, California, got some amazing footage not just of the asteroid but it’s moon. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y7CYf4X3Lo?feature=player_embedded] …
Fantasy fiction. You just bent your knees a little, didn’t you? Instinctively bracing for the weight of a couple of thousand pages, spread across a dozen volumes. Endless description, constant character shifts and a never ending parade of exposition surely await you. There will be a prologue, maybe more than one. You will find out …
This is the cover to Victoriana: The Concert in Flame. It’s a campaign for the Victoriana RPG, published by Cubicle 7 and written by Walt Ciechanowski, Chad Bowser, Lynne Hardy, Andi Newton and me. Illustrated by Scott Purdy and fellow former Traveling Man Jon Hodgson it’s the story of a race across Europe to stop …
The Books What I Help Write: Victoriana-The Concert in Flame
I’m playing Dying Light at the moment. It’s a first person survival zombie game set in the fictional city of Harran, which has fallen victim to a zombie outbreak. No one’s said zombies, not yet, but the shambling hordes filling the city are pretty clearly post-mortem. Dropped in to by a humanitarian organization to retrieve …