Science fiction author
I’ve got some big news I’ve been waiting to share: my science fiction film THE XENOPHOBES is going to be available for rental on Amazon Prime Video starting March 6th. You can rent it for just $4. Link here: https://www.primevideo.com/region/na/detail/0R2N7JPCZIUO9M5RFXDZRXZ525/ref=atv_dp_share_cu_r Some of you have been following this journey since the beginning, and I can’t tell you how surreal…
Thanks to You—We’ve Hit 300 Episodes! I’m deeply grateful to all the listeners—this year, SciFi Thoughts surpassed 300 episodes! Our tricentennial episode features the inspiring story of how Nigerian author Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki was raised by a library. You can listen to it here. Also, great news: FeedSpot has recognized SciFi Thoughts as one of the top science fiction podcasts, currently…
Film previewing in Manhattan Kansas By working with director Hal Dace and Epistrophy Pictures, I have got my second IMDB credit and I m super happy! The first one was for the Miss Wisenheimer s and the Aliens, an animated science fiction movie that as of present time, exists as a short film. The Xenophobes, co-written by [ ]
I write novels and short stories. Short stories are, well shorter so I can be more experimental. I wrote Morning Star City for a young adult audience so that my kids didn t need to work so hard to read their Dad s novels. Morning Star City was published in Rockets Robots anthology (anthology means a [ ]
I bought my EV in 2018 and it was a STEAL at $9,500 for a two-year-old car under warranty with 18,000 miles. I found it on Car Gurus which conveniently allows you to search for electric drive trains. From then to now, nothing much has changed in my vehicle. So, it might be safe to [ ]
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Dear reader, I know you ve missed me. 😥💧I haven t posted since December and that was 2019, a whole year-number away. I m sitting in my studio seeing the Seattle spring sun chasing the winter blues away. Not that I ve had time for winter blues. I ve been busy with various this-es and thats-es and now I ve started [ ]
Kartar s being tailed by a very large Russian. The Chinese Ministry of State Security thinks Kartar stole their Semtex to blow up Trump s wall. Mr. Cherneski is reversing Kartar s organizational transformation. And Kartar agonizes for a way to overcome his management s cognitive biases. The writing of Agile Grande continues: You can read what s been written at [ ]
Podcasting to Radio is like Tivo to being stuck in the 1970s with big three TV networks. With podcasts you can stop the show until you re ready to continue or even speed up the action if the pace is too slow. It s like having ala carte cable where you get to pick the show you [ ]
The writing of Agile Grande continues. For now, you can read for free on LeanPub. Get it now because maybe later I ll charge a MINT! I m quite taken at how fluid and clear the ePub file works on iBook readers (Mac, iPhone, Android, ). I hope your reading experience is enjoyable as well. So what [ ]
Chapter one is up for free on Leanpub. Quick! Go download it before I come to my senses! In chapter one, the story opens with CIA operatives planning how to accept a delivery of something they don t want anyone to know about. It s a black operation and although it s supposed be a milk run, malfunctioning [ ]
Do you find thrillers, well thrilling? Then why not learn how to scale Scrum across an enterprise in an international thriller? AGILE GRANDE is being written in a continuous delivery style on LeanPub. Chapters are going up as they are written and revised at https://leanpub.com/AgileGrande. AGILE GRANDE is the sequel to AGILE NOIR. Kartar Patel, a [ ]
You love science fiction Every time the FOX movies logo hits the screen a small part of you always believes it s Star Wars coming up next, and that small part is secretly disappointed whenever it s not. Maybe you love science fiction enough to read it, write it, or create film or games. So this your [ ]
Don t waste your commute time on dull matters! Stretch your brain with some future-oriented programming. Arrive at work with a refreshing new perspective on something you didn t even know was a thing! SciFi Thoughts, for a few short minutes, will tease and tantalize you with this genre from the future. SciFi has many dozens of sub-genres, [ ]
Kartar Patel . . . a savvy project manager who is determined, disciplined, and and above all, handsome. He’s got a high profile project for a Vegas casino and puts his heart and soul into delivering the Winner. But when timelines are slipped, stakeholders want a pound of flesh for every ounce of letdown. He’s being followed [ ]
Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens short film is screening at an ultra coolio anime con in Kansas City, Missouri: Sausomecon. Come watch the show! And who knows? Since Director Hal Dace is in nearby Manhattan, Kansas, he maybe he ll take a break from his current film project to make an appearance. Twitter: @Sausomecon
Miss Wisenheimer and the Aliens has a short film, a jazzy apertiv to the feature length movie. We re making it easy for you to catch the short film in a screening room near you. Epistrophy Pictures is shipping BluRay to scifi conventions (Con) nationwide. Director Dace and I are attending the Cons wherever we can. [ ]
Yes, a TV interview! If you re like me, you re wondering on who I got pictures in order to blackmail my way onto a TV set. It s true! No not that I mean that it s unusual for an author to get on a TV show. In fact it s unnatural. Producers worry that I ll show up with a [ ]
August 10, 10,000BCE the inventor of the wheel was found dead. The local medicine man puts the time of death to within 24 hours but insists this is preliminary until he consults with the spirit of the deceased. The body s been identified as Zuzu. It was discovered by a fellow tribesman in a terrible state, [ ]
As a fan and author of science fiction, I take my genre seriously as a wine snob would choosing which red to drink with dinner. Knowing what science fiction is and isn t helps guide my hand in the craft. While in China, I met up with film producer/director Hal Dace. He took a break from [ ]
Caveman Noir is true to the noir genre with its cast of the Eldest s daughter Zarina forced to be a PI or be banished, the inventor of the wheel who was savagely murdered, and Maru, an unlikeable man from the neighboring tribe with whom Zarina must cooperate. To work the case, she visits Maru s village [ ]
Everybody loves The Office TV series. Did you ever wonder how an episodic series is born? At my day job I was telling my manager about my latest consulting adventure after which he asked me to write it up, and let the narrative tell the story. Maybe he was bored and was trying to get [ ]
You remember how your mother kept saying that, anything is possible, that, if you work hard you can achieve anything. And then when you rearranged the living room to play soccer behind the couch, you discovered that Mom had a lot of qualifiers for anything is possible. Well, I want to share with you something [ ]
When I got involved with the MISS WISENHEIMER AND THE ALIENS movie, I thought about it as a writer: Is the concept good? Is it rich enough to put in good character? Does the milieu have story producing potential? I didn t think so much about the movie product part, the part where I d get to [ ]
It s not everyday I get to interview an old fart who s also a cosmologist. Babbage, one of two the main characters in MISS WISENHEIMER AND THE ALIENS, is of those brilliant people you d find through the dusty crawl spaces of a super collider. If asked a question, he d respond in one of two ways: talk [ ]
I don t know whether to blame it all on love trouble or music trouble, but it certainly was trouble that happened on the outskirts of Saturn s belt. The dirty business took place on a small meteoroid whose spin s so fast that six minutes separates sunrise from sunset. That s the opening of a Western style yarn [ ]
As I finish work on Agile Noir, a dramatic business novel which is not only enjoyable to read but teaches you about Agile software development, I want to show you the novel s great book covers. These covers for Agile Noir (the English edition and the Mandarin edition) were crafted by talented artist Fauji M. Bardah. [ ]
Robots and science-fiction are a popular trend these days, especially following films like Star Wars. Due to this form of media entertainment, more people have developed a fascination with the robotic devices that make up a lot of the science fiction universe. Some people believe that it was the popular anime series Robotech that caused [ ]
Argosy Magazine is coming back to the world as an ebook. Argosy Magazine is one of the, if not THE original pulp magazine. It came out in the UK when publishing on pulp paper was cutting edge. Argosy s Fantastic Frontiers volume will feature a science fiction story I wrote called Parsec Hiccup, a western style [ ]
Pirates versus Ninjas is cute, kitsch, and if your girl/guy is dressed as a pirate, that s an added bonus. Chances are the costume is an off-the-shelf product of plastic, cheap textile, and glue which is why I m here to tell you the future of Halloween costumer is in nanotechnology! Imagine going to a store, searching [ ]
Yes, it s almost the end of summer. Soon the days of lounging at the beach and surfing the waves will be gone. You do have a beach right? Never mind. I ll give you the one I have in Hawaii in the form of Honolulu Hottie, a novelette about a surfer and a beautiful woman, and [ ]
A few novelette publications later, a friend refused to read and write a review for Bit Storm because he thought the Amazon marketing blurb was lame. Nothing freaks out a writer more than telling him despite hours of obsessing in front of a computer screen, the highest level of achievement is meah. So I tossed [ ]
Dear reader, if you haven t rushed out to get your copy of Memory s Victims, this article is for you. Oh, how I work so hard for you. I think through thousands of ideas, write them down, and then throw out 999 of them. Then I write it, then I revise it maybe three times, and [ ]
Have you ever had someone tell you if you don t like it here, then leave. When the nation states of Earth get interstellar travel capabilities, that s exactly what some do. Governments fund voyages by giant spacecraft which spend multiple generations traveling to Earth-like planets. Arcadie, a jewish boy grown up on a generation ship, is [ ]
Did you enjoy the 2009 Star Trek movie where JJ Abrams made his mark? Did you view the mark as a blemish or a crest? Review Why Trekkies hate the ’09 Star Trek movie to refresh the mind because science fiction pundits Lancer Kind and Hal Dace are going it again with this pre movie [ ]
Save a world from awful naming! NASA discovered an M class planet (means Earth-like) less than 5 light years away, over half of the distance of our previous favorite place to put an overflow parking lot. But how would you like to live on a world saddled with a crappy name as Alpha Centauri Bb? [ ]
Imagine your worst day so we can compare notes with Akiya, the main character in Caveman Funk. You re a modern person (perhaps even post modern), have a loving family, and maybe even a fridge full of food to go with your beer. Akiya s a neanderthal boy who s a foot shorter than his peers and his [ ]
Slodive, a popular graphic and web design site did a feature on Fauji M. Bardah (aka BakArt), a very talented artist whose work I admire. I love his work with robots, how he integrates action into his scenes, and his future visions. I think the following three pieces really showcase those points. The last piece [ ]
You remember those Duke boys? Of course you do if you re at least 37 years old. Though with the recent Dukes of Hazzard movie, there s a whole new generation of fans of Duke-dom. The Dukes enjoyed worldwide viewership and was an American icon. (In the 80s, I heard reports that people in Portugal thought that [ ]
I ve been accused of being unsavory or even outright bad, but also I ve been accused of being a great citizen. None of those charges, I m happy to say, have stuck! As an author, I get to create characters that are bad people. In Better than God, I plausibly simulate a very rich jerk who likes [ ]
Awards. They re so elitist and yet it s a time for us to get together and decide who among us should rule the science fiction literary roost. In contrast to the President who has no power because Congress and the Judicial branch spoil the party, the Hugo award winner has pure unadulterated power, babe! Those registered [ ]
Daily Science Fiction started less than a year ago and has developed into a powerhouse of science fiction by pleasing it s readership with new stories everyday, and they did it without disturbing trees. (A pleasing side effect of our speeding toward the singularity is that our forests will grow back because we won t have time [ ]
Hal and I were talking science fiction over beers one night, and for some reason Hal started listing a number of well thought out reasons why I shouldn t have enjoyed the latest Trek. Before you could read this recounting, I used a high-tech, Xindi web technology to protected Hal Dace s identity from the hordes of [ ]
Books have been around for a while now. Love them but it takes a lot of resources to make a book: trees, a plup mill, a printing press, a way to ship them to your door or nearby store. In SciFi stories, people aren't reading using parts of dead trees. They're using some cool holo-something or thin e-paper thingy. Now days, we can read books with devices similar to scifi characters, and the devices…
In 1989 I read my first cyberpunk novel, William Gibson s Mona Lisa Overdrive. That novel got me reading science fiction again. Until then, I d been on a Fantasy bender for the six years, and yes, you can get drunk on fantasy. My apologies to my brother and sister, for making them dress like hobbits and [ ]
The real life situation was cliche enough for a movie (I ll talk about the movie later): An actor who played in cowboy movies was president of the US and was insinuating that the next toughest country was evil. Both sides had the firepower to destroy the world many times over. But then a movie came [ ]
It was 2009 (late) before I started watching the animated series Star Wars Clone Wars. The show had been running for a few seasons already. In fact, the animated series has been imagineered in a few different flavors: a movie released to theatres, a Cartoon Central TV series, and an Adult Swim styled cartoon movie. [ ]
The advent of the Internet has increased the rate of information flow. We used to wait a month for a new magazine issue or a week for a favorite TV episode. Nowadays, you need the help of a site like this to even stand a chance of being able to keep up to date, with [ ]
Sometimes a writer s day job can really help him write. It all started in 2000 when Asim Jalis, a friend of mine, kept pestering me about how to apply eXtreme Programming (XP) to writing. I say pester, because, like an a fly buzzing around the room which had grown a mouth and spoke with the [ ]
I spend 90% of my time covering Agile 101 type topics with each new client. What can I do to 'up the game' of an entire industry? Educating the masses with a book is a scalable approach. But there are already a lot of Agile books out there that people aren't reading. Perhaps they aren't the right kind of books. The Agile advocates are reading Agile books, but the people who aren't doing Agile and…