Last Saturday Rebecca and I were guests riding on the Star Wars-themed float in the Denver St. Patrick's Day Parade. We joined members of the Rocky Mountain Fan Force, the 501st Legion, the Mandalorian Mercs, and the Rebel Legion -- which included plenty of Stormtroopers in kilts, Boba Fett, Jango Fett, Leia, Luke, various Jedi Knights, Tusken Raiders, Twi'lek dancing girls, an Ithorian Hammerhead, Greedo, the Rancor keeper, and other Star Wars favorites. We were part of a parade group that included the Ghost Busters car, the Dukes of Hazzard cars, a Resident Evil Umbrella Corp response vehicle, and the...
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Last Saturday Rebecca and I were guests riding on the Star Wars-themed float in the Denver St. Patrick's Day Parade. We joined members of the Rocky Mountain Fan Force, the 501st Legion, the Mandalorian Mercs, and the Rebel Legion -- which included plenty of Stormtroopers in kilts, Boba Fett, Jango Fett, Leia, Luke, various Jedi Knights, Tusken Raiders, Twi'lek dancing girls, an Ithorian Hammerhead, Greedo, the Rancor keeper, and other Star Wars favorites. We were part of a parade group that included the Ghost Busters car, the Dukes of Hazzard cars, a Resident Evil Umbrella Corp response vehicle, and the...
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Frank Herbert's never-published novel HIGH-OPP is now available!  $4.99 in all eBook formats, all countries.  (We will have the print version in a couple of weeks.)  This science fiction dystopia is one of many manuscripts Frank Herbert wrote after the publication of his first novel, The Dragon in the Sea, and before he sold his masterpiece Dune. EMASI—Each Man A Separate Individual! That is the rallying cry of the Seps, the Separatists engaged in a class war against the upper tiers of a society driven entirely by opinion polls. Those who score high in the polls, the High-Opps, live in...
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My hard-SF novella TAU CETI is now available for free Kindle download, courtesy of the publisher Arc Manor, along with a sequel novelette written by Steven Savile. Jorie Taylor has lived her whole life on the generation ship Beacon. Fleeing an Earth tearing itself apart from its exhaustive demand for resources, the Beacon is finally approaching Sarbras, the planet circling Tau Ceti they hope to make humanity’s new home. But Earth has recovered from its near-death experience and is now under the control of a ruthless dictator whose sights are set on Tau Ceti as well. President Jurudu knows how...
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