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Ushering in the Future

 
Dr. Werhner von Braun, Marshall Space Flight Center's first director, points out a detail regarding the first stage of the Saturn rocket to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. President Eisenhower was at Marshall to participate in the Center's dedication ceremony, Sept. 8, 1960. Image Credit: NASA
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Nano, nablo

Another November, another NaNoWriMo novel…this was my second official year, and both novels went smoothly, way ahead of schedule. Last year’s entry, MILK, is undergoing editing and will likely be finished in the reasonably near future. It’s part of my future history arc, and I’ve been working on making that whole series internally consistent. Takes [...]

the Big Dumb Object

The Big Dumb Object is a science-fictional plot device, as described in the linked wiki entry. Examples would be the Ringworld, Rama, Gaea, or Jack Kirby’s Ego, the Living Planet.

I got to thinking, while driving cross-country and sucking caffeine to stay awake, about big dumb objects. More specifically, I started thinking about the planet Carcosa [...]

More Upcoming…

You might anticipate some small changes to this blog and site-namely, the addition of a book database, courtesy of the Book Collector software, which will be appended to the “sf booknerd” section, and will include all of my titles in due time. Coupled with that, I’ll be doing at least a capsule review of each.
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…and they’re OFF!

Having just paid the deposit on the movers and rental car, I can safely say that our move is official. On my 48th birthday, October 29, we’ll take possession of the premises in Arizona and start moving in our kit and kaboodle.
Her youngest is coming along to help with the move and to vacation for [...]

more updates and ruminations

In the last post I wrote about some updates for the AE Pub project. The update to that update is that Cutts Cook, the Pub moderator, has taken over the production of Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out and Scarborough Fair, while I am running the Looptronica group. It looks like both are [...]

NaNo Finish

Well, I didn’t do so well at keeping this series updated. Ah well…let’s just say that I fulfilled all of the requirements and then some for NaNoWriMo, writing 81,389 words and finishing the first draft of my novel “MILK”, which I’ll be editing/rewriting during December and January, with an eye toward agent-shopping in February and [...]

Complications and etcetera

I’m up to 6230 words now…there aren’t enough homages, inside jokes, and Milleresque subreferences to obscure scifi novels for me though. I shall have to pad. It’s getting hard to figure out whether I’m writing satire or reality as I have been watching television and keep writing political attack commercials which I have to delete [...]

In the Beginning

NaNoWriMo starts today. I started at midnight, and almost immediately scrapped my original plan to do the narrative in first person, as the character was sounding too smart for what he needed to be. I’d only gotten a couple of hundred words in, so I hit the delete key and there that went. After that [...]

One Week To Go

November 1 begins National Novel Writing Month (http://www.nanowrimo.org/), during which thousands of writers attempt to scribble an average of 1500 words per day in order to reach the goal of 50,000 words and hopefully a finished first draft.
This is my first time actually entering NaNoWriMo, though I’ve written a novel during the period before. This [...]