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A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: November 2014
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A blog about writing, science fiction, the future of publishing, books and me. Sunday, November 30, 2014. National Novel Writing Month - I finished. Links to this post. Thursday, November 20, 2014. National Novel Writing Month - Three Weeks In. I am very much enjoying the science fiction young adult story I am writing. The novel can easily be divided into five parts, and I am just at the end of part two, which suggests it will be about 90,000 words. A bit shorter than my other drafts of novels. The last ...
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A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: March 2015
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A blog about writing, science fiction, the future of publishing, books and me. Sunday, March 29, 2015. Review of The Method - a dystopian science fiction novel. Is a very believable dystopian, science-fiction thriller. It is a different take of themes explored in novels like 1984. And Brave New World. The novel is set in a future Germany, not too different from the current version, except society is controlled by a strict set of rules known as “The Method”. The novel revolves around Mia Holl whose devoti...
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A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: Review of Brother in the Land
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A blog about writing, science fiction, the future of publishing, books and me. Friday, May 22, 2015. Review of Brother in the Land. Brother in The Land. Begins with teenager Danny taking a break from working in his father’s corner store to go on a long bike ride into the English countryside. It starts to rain, so he takes shelter in a World War II pillbox. As he waits for the rain to stop, he sees the flashes of nuclear missiles exploding. Brother in the Land. The novel has a real boy’s own adventu...
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A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: July 2015
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A blog about writing, science fiction, the future of publishing, books and me. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. My writing efforts in June. I did not do much reading during June as I was too tired at night. Fortunately, that tiredness has receded in the past week or so, no idea why. I am about two thirds of the way through Amnesia. Peter Carey’s very enjoyable romp through 20. Hopefully some of his commitment will rub off on me, enabling me to finish the first draft of my current manuscript in July. Stupid White M...
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A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: July 2014
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A blog about writing, science fiction, the future of publishing, books and me. Tuesday, July 22, 2014. Medical Use of Cannabis. I wrote this article just over a year ago but I could not find a paying home for it, so here it is. Possession of cannabis is illegal. Harmful effects of cannabis. According to the Victorian Health Department’s Better Health website, short term use of cannabis can cause:. Long term use of cannabis can cause:. An inability to learn new tasks. Increased risk of infections. In Nove...
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A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: December 2014
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A blog about writing, science fiction, the future of publishing, books and me. Tuesday, December 23, 2014. Price Survey of Top 100 Selling ebooks: December 2014. The most popular prices of ebooks in the top 100 were 99c (14), $1.99 (15), $2.99 (13), $3.99 (14), $4.99 (11) with six at both $6.99 and $9.99. Compared with recent surveys, the number of ebooks on the list at 99c continued to fall. The number of ebooks at $1.99 dropped after a rise in August. Overall it appears that the price of ebooks making ...
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A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: A Review of Steve Amsterdam's What the Family Needed
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A blog about writing, science fiction, the future of publishing, books and me. Sunday, June 21, 2015. A Review of Steve Amsterdam's What the Family Needed. I enjoyed Steve Amsterdam’s award winning, apocalyptic, climate change novel Things We Didn’t See Coming. So I was quick to purchase a copy of What the Family Needed. Calling Things We Didn’t See Coming. But this time each story is told from the viewpoint of a different character. What the Family Needed. Ben, Ruth, Natalie, cousin Sasha, Uncle Peter, ...
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A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: June 2015
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A blog about writing, science fiction, the future of publishing, books and me. Sunday, June 21, 2015. A Review of Steve Amsterdam's What the Family Needed. I enjoyed Steve Amsterdam’s award winning, apocalyptic, climate change novel Things We Didn’t See Coming. So I was quick to purchase a copy of What the Family Needed. Calling Things We Didn’t See Coming. But this time each story is told from the viewpoint of a different character. What the Family Needed. Ben, Ruth, Natalie, cousin Sasha, Uncle Peter, ...
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A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: My writing efforts in June.
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A blog about writing, science fiction, the future of publishing, books and me. Tuesday, July 7, 2015. My writing efforts in June. I did not do much reading during June as I was too tired at night. Fortunately, that tiredness has receded in the past week or so, no idea why. I am about two thirds of the way through Amnesia. Peter Carey’s very enjoyable romp through 20. Hopefully some of his commitment will rub off on me, enabling me to finish the first draft of my current manuscript in July. Matt Browne - ...
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A Time-Travelling Apocalypse: Hugo's sad puppies.
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A blog about writing, science fiction, the future of publishing, books and me. Thursday, April 23, 2015. I have made a few edits to this post - the original post was written when I was very tired and fed-up with the world and the whole debate is very messy.). The upset writers include. Theodore Beale (who writes under the name of Vox Day), Brad R.Torgersen and Larry Correia. They called their nominations the Sad Puppies and Rabid Puppies. The Rabid Puppies (. By Larry Correia, Baen Books. By Charles E...
