As I have been busy getting the Rosaria of Venice Kickstarter campaign ready to go, I did not manage to get yesterday’s post up. I do apologize. In order to keep this from happening (as there are no signs of me getting less busy in the coming weeks), I will be scaling down my posts for …
As I again delve into the various genres of fiction with which my current writing intersects, I discover surprising gaps in my knowledge—and more books for my reading list. This is hardly a bad thing. Writers are fed by writing, and not always their own. Indeed, one would hope that much of it is not …
Monday’s links: Colony Collapse Disorder, the recent history of famine, and pictures from the International Space Station. Wednesday’s post delves into the world of Steampunk. And on Friday, a look at the world outside of Europe in the 15th Century.
So, one kind of business (finals) ends, and another begins. I’ve been busy getting the Kickstarter for my novel going, and thus these Monday links are up late. But do not fear, for they are here at last! A guest post on Bug Girl’s Blog talks about how Colony Collapse Disorder—that worrying trend of domestic …
It is an odd feeling when you discover how little you know about a subject. I first learned of the alternate history genre at around the age of 10. Or at least, I think it was the age of ten. I might’ve been two or three years older or younger. All I know is that …
It is a more difficult question than it seems. We all know what science fiction is, right? Ray guns and space ships and aliens? So we just go back in time, look for the earliest instances of these elements, and presto! We have the first literary work of science fiction. But what about a totalitarian …
I’ve been crunching for finals the past few weeks, and have slipped on my Google+ and Facebook announcements. My apologies. I have, however, been continuing to pump out content here on Runicfire, and I’d like to catch up any readers who follow me on Facebook or Google+ on what they might have missed. Recap begins …
Monday’s links discuss the definition of time, the difficulty in measuring the human mind, the launch of SpaceShipTwo, and Northern Ireland’s new schism. On Wednesday I delve into the history of science fiction, in the first of a series of posts on the genre and its sub-categories. On Friday I delve deeper into the subject with a look …
Chad Orzel at Uncertain Principles did not have time to enter this year’s Flame Challenge—a competition in which science writers and communicators explain a part of scientific knowledge in 300 or fewer words, and in a manner understandable to an 11-year-old. This year’s subject, very appropriately, is time, and although he didn’t have enough to …
I’ll be Kickstarting Rosaria of Venice, the alternate history steampunk Renaissance novel I wrote and am now revising, this month on May 25. The proceeds are to pay for cover illustrations (front and inside) as well as editing and proofreading. While I won’t be commissioning the final works until the Kickstarter campaign finishes, I have …
