[cross-posted from GoodReads] Terribly plausible economic and political SF: A very near-future tech billionaire (comparisons to Elon Musk are inevitable, if inaccurate) creates a public/private partnership with the U.S. government to trap a mineral-rich asteroid in earth orbit; the promise of future riches floats the unsustainable American federal government for a handful of years, until…
Not This August
[cross-posted from GoodReads] While I don’t think it lives up to the blurb on the cover from the New York Daily News that it’s “far more powerful than 1984,” it is more grounded in the contemporary geopolitical reality of its 1955 publication date. In in the then-near future, a ground war being waged by the…
Champion of Mars
[cross-posted from GoodReads] The cover lies; readers who specifically pick this up because they liked The Martian aren’t going to be happy. Rather than a straightforward, hard SF problem-solving story, this is an epoch-spanning saga told in nonlinear episodes, from the near future of the first Martian colonies to so many hundreds of thousands of…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
And I’ve caught up to my sketchbook, so no more sketches of the day for a little bit.
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Happy Halloween!
Halloween Movie Marathon 2022
On the Friday before Halloween, our traditional Movie Marathon takes place: All the kids who don’t live here anymore come home, and I throw in monster movies until everyone decides to go to bed. The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) – Roger Corman’s horror-comedy follow-up to A Bucket of Blood (shot on the same sets…
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
One for sale in my Etsy shop… …and six from my sketchbook:
Sketch of the Day Omnibus Post.
Five sketches for sale in my Etsy shop (missed a day because I was replacing a car battery that morning)… …plus one direct from my sketchbook.