I just finished listening to Richard Morgan’s Thirteen from Audible. This new novel is an involving story about a genetically engineered mutant, such people carry the nickname Thirteen. Reminds me of Rome. The 13th Legion warriors were aggressive and invincible. So are the mutants. They are fierce male warriors recruited for dirty work such as [...]
Thirteen
October 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments
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Word Usage in SciFi Stories
September 6th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Word doesn’t offer a word count histogram, so I wrote one in perl. I……. you are only about 3 minutes away from running your own word count on any document you like.
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Richard Morgan on Internecine SciFi Warfare
May 5th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Richard Morgan has some hostile words for the battles ongoing within the science fiction community. http://www.richardkmorgan.com/article_soundfury.htm His comments are great, but we need more analysis. Why is there civil warfare inside our genre? Isn’t there room enough for all of us? 1 First of all, more than anything else, this is about money. There are [...]
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