Final Meet the Pod: DreadBot and Myranda

I imagine Dread looking like this IRL DreadBot – Dread to her Pod companions – was born and grew to a teenager in SCAZ. I can’t say “raised” because there was very little thought given to her beyond keeping her clean and fed. She was loved, but after watching enough…

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Book Review: The Bomber Mafia by Malcolm Gladwell

Not my usual fare for this blog as it's historical non-fiction, but this book made me reexamine my thinking vis-à-vis our conduct of the air war in Europe and Japan during WWII. @malcolmgladwell also wrote Blink, The Tipping Point, and Outliers - all of which I enjoyed. Between The War…

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Meet the Pod: Hunter and Mellow

I like Hunter and named him after a guy I know. Hunter 319 is a nerd’s nerd. Even in the Pod, his nerdiness stands out. Before he was orphaned by Omicron Death, he lived with his parents and had schematics of the Millennium Falcon on the walls of his bedroom.…

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Book Review: Pighearted by Alex Perry

It was pure serendipity.  Slogging through my first draft of Book 1 (which I was convinced was a masterwork but later learned was crap), I found the Houston Writers Guild and joined a critique group. As I read through the work of the other four authors, I smugly thought: Okay, I’m…

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