I’m stressing this because there’s also a bit of a trap with this device, and I think the trap is what people tend to think of when they gripe about this sort of thing.
Year: 2017
December 15, 2017
Family Tree
I’m stressing this because there’s also a bit of a trap with this device, and I think the trap is what people tend to think of when they gripe about this sort of thing.
November 30, 2017 / 4 Comments
One Of You… Is A Murderer
So… here’s the tip.
Next time, I wanted to talk about Luke’s father.
November 29, 2017
Other Awesomer Books
I said good day.
Revolution –by John Barber and Cullen Bunn—I was a die-hard comic fan for years, but got driven out by the constant (and often substandard) crossover events. I started reading some of IDW’s “Hasbroverse” books last year and was frustrated when they announced Revolution, their own upcoming crossover event.
Holy crap. This was my favorite comic book event in at least twenty years. It begins with a conflict between the GI Joe team and the Autobots which gets disrupted when Rom the Spaceknight shows up and uses his Neutralizer to incinerate General Joe Coulton before flying off again. If you were already a fan of IDW’s GI Joe or Transformers books, you can guess how a silver robot showing up and killing the Joes’ CO goes over. If you’re a fan of Rom… you know what this killing implies. Revolution is honestly suspenseful and dramatic, and has amazingly solid ties to all the books involved. It’s clearly a crossover that was planned far in advance, and it made me a regular at my comic shop again.
And anyway, those are some of my favorite things I read this year. Any one of them would make for a fantastic gift. And if you’ve got some suggestions of your own, please mention them in the comments down below.
Tomorrow… regular old writing advice. Thanks for your patience.
November 27, 2017
Cyber Monday VI: The Consumering
And really, go to your local bookstore. They’re cool and they could use the business. Plus, now you’re not one of those conformists falling for all this Cyber Monday capitalist nonsense.
The big thing this year, of course, is Paradox Bound, available in hardcover at all your favorite bookstores. Also in ebook and a wonderful audiobook read by Ray Porter. If you haven’t heard me drone on about it yet, it’s got history travel, road trips, creepy bad guys, and a really cool train. F.Paul Wilson compared it to Doctor Who crossed with National Treasure, and I really couldn’t ask for a better description than that.
Many of you are probably here because of the Ex-Heroes series. Ex-Heroes, Ex-Patriots, Ex-Communication, Ex-Purgatory, and Ex-Isle! All of these are available in a number of formats and a number of languages.
Early on someone described The Fold as a horror-suspense novel disguised as a sci-fi-mystery, and I’ve been using that ever since. It’s also loosely connected to another semi-popular book I wrote… Ray reads the audiobook for this one, too.
You can pick up The Junkie Quatrain as either an ebook or an audiobook (no paper, sorry). It’s my attempt at a “fast zombies” tale, a series of interconnected stories I’ve sometimes described as Rashomonmeets 28 Days Later.
Naughty or Niceis a collection of twisted holiday stories which cover… a lot of genres. Don’t get it for your nine year old. Or probably your parents.
Finally, there’s “The Apocrypha of Gamma-202, ” a story about robots and religion, which appeared in Bless Your Mechanical Heart. You’ll also get some great stories from Seanan McGuire, Ken Scholes, and Lucy Snyder.