Category Archives: Blog

10Future war2 Once again I’m talking with artist and researcher C. M. “Memo” Kosemen on the subject of war and the future…and many other things including: Drone warfare (also Robot Wars) Mexican drug cartels False Flag Operations Kurdish insurgency in … Continue reading →

What would North America look like if, instead of a trio of federal states held together mostly by economic forces, we had Old-World-style nation states? Why is the map so different? Don’t people call the US, Mexico, and Canada “nations” … Continue reading →

 09Future war1 The future of war…is peace Tyrannosaur Queen mentions a future controlled by the “Econ-peace,” and makes a parallel between the abolition of slavery and of war. If we listen to people like Steven Pinker, the world may indeed … Continue reading →

(see some background at the speculative evolution forum) Lake Vostok was sealed under Antarctic glaciers as early as 25 million years ago and remained entirely untouched until February of 2012, when a team of Russian scientists drilled past its surface. … Continue reading →

See how the blue line (page views) shoots way above the orange (unique visitors)? That’s one guy from the Netherlands who’s reading Kingdoms of Evil (all 400K words of it) all the way through from beginning to end, clicking from … Continue reading →

Here’s a little bonus podcast.Podcast 8: Translation (in Japanese) What is the best way to translate this sentence: “Watashi wa genki desu shi. Eto, konshu wa imouto ni atte, Miyajima e ikimashita.” If you want to learn Japanese, perhaps the … Continue reading →

07Writing Promotion Strategies3 You can form partnerships with other creative people (hi Kalin!) and they will involve their fans in your mutual project. Pay it forward. Do favors and help those in need, not necessarily because you expect them to pay … Continue reading →

I start reading a lot of books. I finish, maybe, a quarter of them. Occassionally I will delete a book from my kindle with a growl of disgust, wishing that I lived with the primitive people of the 20th century, … Continue reading →

06 Writing Promotion Strategies2 Go to conventions and writing workshops, and even contests to meet people. The more specialized a social network is, the better. Some good ones are: Goodreads Deviantart Consider the motivation of the other people on a … Continue reading →

What makes readers keep reading? Is it action, romance, humor, all of those, or none of them? SF author Daniel M. Bensen and Kalin Nenov, editor at the Human Library, will talk about what makes books fun, why fun is … Continue reading →