Author Topic: The Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Spy, and Superhero Genre (Read 423143 times)

Gefn · « **Reply #225 on:** July 05, 2016, 05:46:21 am »

Quote from: geronl on July 05, 2016, 05:43:48 am

My blog story has reached nearly 22,000 words, it will increase in a second draft as I add detail, description and stuff. It's definitely got potential as a future e-book.

I bought your last one let me know when this is done

geronl · « **Reply #226 on:** July 05, 2016, 06:00:09 am »

Quote from: Freya on July 05, 2016, 05:46:21 am

I bought your last one let me know when this is done

I will.

geronl · « **Reply #227 on:** July 07, 2016, 06:23:56 am »

"This is Archimedes, we are approaching the rock with the suspected enemy base..."

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Doug Loss · « **Reply #228 on:** July 07, 2016, 10:31:13 am »

Just a heads-up. The wife and I will be going to LibertyCon in Chattanooga tomorrow morning. It's a small SF convention that seems to cater toward normal (non-leftist) fans of SF (and I don't mean SF "Fandom"). I'll post an after-action report next week. And if anyone else here is going to attend, let me know and we can get together!

geronl · « **Reply #229 on:** July 07, 2016, 11:40:20 pm »

Quote from: Doug Loss on July 07, 2016, 10:31:13 am

Just a heads-up. The wife and I will be going to LibertyCon in Chattanooga tomorrow morning. It's a small SF convention that seems to cater toward normal (non-leftist) fans of SF (and I don't mean SF "Fandom"). I'll post an after-action report next week. And if anyone else here is going to attend, let me know and we can get together!

I can't go, but tell Lou Antonelli I said hello! (Floyd Looney from Facebook)

Chieftain · « **Reply #230 on:** July 08, 2016, 12:19:21 am »

I'd pay ten whole US Dollars for Larry Niven's signature on anything...well, almost anything......

geronl · « **Reply #231 on:** July 08, 2016, 12:41:04 am »

I think my random spaceship generator script on Blender might have tried drugs...

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uglybiker · « **Reply #232 on:** July 08, 2016, 01:45:48 am »

Quote from: geronl on July 08, 2016, 12:41:04 am

I think my random spaceship generator script on Blender might have tried drugs...

Just don't let any teenagers get ahold of it!

geronl · « **Reply #233 on:** July 08, 2016, 05:39:04 am »

Quote from: uglybiker on July 08, 2016, 01:45:48 am

Just don't let any teenagers get ahold of it!

lol

Doug Loss · « **Reply #234 on:** July 09, 2016, 11:29:19 am »

Quote from: geronl on July 07, 2016, 11:40:20 pm

I can't go, but tell Lou Antonelli I said hello! (Floyd Looney from Facebook)

@geronl

I saw Lou and said hello for you. Nice guy; you (and I) ought to get him on this site...

Suppressed · « **Reply #235 on:** July 11, 2016, 03:03:04 pm »

I just found this thread, but haven't read through it. Has Nick Cole and his fight against Political Correctness with Harper-Collins been mentioned/discussed yet?

http://www.nickcolebooks.com/2016/02/09/banned-by-the-publisher/

@Doug Loss

geronl · « **Reply #236 on:** July 11, 2016, 07:30:12 pm »

Quote from: Doug Loss on July 09, 2016, 11:29:19 am

@geronl

I saw Lou and said hello for you. Nice guy; you (and I) ought to get him on this site...

Cool! I haven't been on FB as much since this weekend

geronl · « **Reply #237 on:** July 11, 2016, 07:31:48 pm »

Quote from: Suppressed on July 11, 2016, 03:03:04 pm

I just found this thread, but haven't read through it. Has Nick Cole and his fight against Political Correctness with Harper-Collins been mentioned/discussed yet?

http://www.nickcolebooks.com/2016/02/09/banned-by-the-publisher/

Thousands of books are denied by publishers every year. Nick Cole used that as a marketing gimmick, IMO. Very effectively.

To-Whose-Benefit? · « **Reply #238 on:** July 14, 2016, 05:51:41 pm »

My most cherished quote from Sci Fi:

"An armed society is a polite society."

Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

As a Thank You to everyone here at TBR I'm making my Heroic Fantasy Trilogy Viking Hunter Free this Saturday and Sunday July 16 -July 17, at Amazon.

You won't need any KDP membership or anything else. It'll just be a free download.

Hope you'll download it and enjoy it.

https://www.amazon.com/Viking-Hunter-Full-Saga-Anson-ebook/dp/B01C0R43EE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468517055&sr=1-1&keywords=Viking+Hunter

http://wulfanson.blogspot.com

geronl · « **Reply #239 on:** July 14, 2016, 06:17:11 pm »

cool, thanks!

Gefn · « **Reply #240 on:** July 14, 2016, 06:36:18 pm »

Quote from: To-Whose-Benefit? on July 14, 2016, 05:51:41 pm

My most cherished quote from Sci Fi:

"An armed society is a polite society."

Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

As a Thank You to everyone here at TBR I'm making my Heroic Fantasy Trilogy Viking Hunter Free this Saturday and Sunday July 16 -July 17, at Amazon.

You won't need any KDP membership or anything else. It'll just be a free download.

Hope you'll download it and enjoy it.

https://www.amazon.com/Viking-Hunter-Full-Saga-Anson-ebook/dp/B01C0R43EE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468517055&sr=1-1&keywords=Viking+Hunter

http://wulfanson.blogspot.com

I enjoyed book one. @geronl I've bought your ebooks from amazon, should this author start a new thread for bigger readership?

geronl · « **Reply #241 on:** July 14, 2016, 06:51:07 pm »

@To-Whose-Benefit?

Yes, you should start a thread about your book give-away in the entertainment section!

geronl · « **Reply #242 on:** July 16, 2016, 07:11:04 pm »

Not really a story, maybe the seed for one...

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Allie shut down the holographic desk in front of her and breathed a sigh of relief. The results of the test was already being transmitted to her mother. She had passed and would be starting tenth grade after a six-week break. TEACH-R sat in the main room of the compartment she shared with her mother, it was a holographic school for teaching everything Allie should know.

The girl stood and stretched, just as the band on her wrist chimed.

“Allie, good job sweetheart, I knew you could do it!” Her mothers face appeared with a smile on the tiny screen.

“Thanks mom. Will I be able to visit dad during my break?” The girl asked.

Mom smiled and nodded, “Of course, Allie. I keep my promises, don't I?”

“Thanks, mom,” Allie replied before the connection was cut, then she told it, “Call dad!”

Soon her father appeared on the screen, “I saw the grades, Allie, good job!”

“Thanks dad. I'll be able to visit you soon! Hugs and kisses!” Allie said before they said their goodbyes. Then she went over to the window and watched Mars below, knowing that she'd be down there with her father soon enough.

Allie lived with her mother aboard Mars Platform One, a three-ringed space station that orbited the red planet. She had been born on the station, the only child to be born there during the thirteen-years that MPO had been orbiting Mars.

There were not a lot of shuttle pod flights from the station to one of the four manned research centers below, but she would be added as a passenger on one of them soon enough. That is how things worked, Allie's vacation wasn't a good enough reason alone to warrant the use of a shuttle pod, after all. She was special, but she wasn't that special.

Allie left the compartment, walked to the end of the narrow corridor and entered the lift bubble that dropped down to the center of the station through one of the hollow spokes. When the bubble door opened she floated weightless and pushed and kicked her way down the main passage to the second ring lift bubble. Soon enough she felt gravity again and bounded off through the corridor of the second ring to the hydroponics garden.

“Hello Lissa!” Allie announced as she opened the hatch. Inside she found the gardens that grew most of the fresh food for the residents of the station. Lissa was the woman measuring out the water for some of the smaller seedlings at the back.

“Hi Allie, you seem excited. You got good grades, I bet?” Lissa asked.

“Yes, I did!” Allie answered, giving the woman a quick hug, “Where's mom?”

Mechanicos · « **Reply #243 on:** July 16, 2016, 09:23:52 pm »

A site I found recently for free Science Fiction Streaming movies

http://scifistreaming.com/

geronl · « **Reply #244 on:** July 16, 2016, 11:35:18 pm »

Quote from: Mechanicos on July 16, 2016, 09:23:52 pm

A site I found recently for free Science Fiction Streaming movies

http://scifistreaming.com/

That's a url anyone can remember

Quix · « **Reply #245 on:** July 17, 2016, 05:53:26 pm »

Quote from: To-Whose-Benefit? on July 14, 2016, 05:51:41 pm

My most cherished quote from Sci Fi:

"An armed society is a polite society."

Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

As a Thank You to everyone here at TBR I'm making my Heroic Fantasy Trilogy Viking Hunter Free this Saturday and Sunday July 16 -July 17, at Amazon.

You won't need any KDP membership or anything else. It'll just be a free download.

Hope you'll download it and enjoy it.

https://www.amazon.com/Viking-Hunter-Full-Saga-Anson-ebook/dp/B01C0R43EE/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1468517055&sr=1-1&keywords=Viking+Hunter

http://wulfanson.blogspot.com

Done.

Thanks.

IF and when I get to them . . . reading half a dozen other books at the moment, will earnestly endeavor to remember to give a review, assuming it's as good as it looks.

Don't know if y'all like Haiku . . . but I think HAIKU FOR THE END TIMES (on Amazon.com Kindle) is an interesting read--if the END TIMES is of interest.

geronl · « **Reply #246 on:** July 17, 2016, 05:59:14 pm »

I also downloaded it, but I don't know when I will be able to read it

geronl · « **Reply #247 on:** July 17, 2016, 11:50:20 pm »

One ticket to Alpha Centauri, please!

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To-Whose-Benefit? · « **Reply #248 on:** July 18, 2016, 04:00:02 pm »

Thanks to quix, geronl and everyone else who downloaded my work.

Have you ever been to literary agent Miss Snark's place?

Nasty, Vicious and fall down funny.

(talking about the rings her gin bucket left on your manuscript)

She quit posting in 2007 but the archives are still up.

http://misssnark.blogspot.com

have fun.

Machiavelli · « **Reply #249 on:** July 21, 2016, 08:28:35 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkphXBcF6fo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkphXBcF6fo