• Get set up for your run

    As of this week, I’ve begun my run through the query trenches with my latest novel, The Kingdom of Nod. I don’t know who first coined the term Query Trench, but it feels right. No one is an expert in querying. There are those who were successful, writers who have been signed, and those who haven’t succeeded yet. There are plenty of people who will give you advice, or sell…

  • The Root of the Internet

    My first programming language was BASIC on a Commodore 64. The next was Hypertalk on a Mac. Hypercard was the beginning of a two decade career making multimedia (the term for audio-visual interactive experiences from 1990-2005ish). This video does a fine job of capturing the concepts behind Hypercard and the types of hippies that spawned it. Hypercard inspired the internet and yet the internet, so far, has never reached the…

  • Sphynx

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  • The Unstoppable War Machine

    Did the producers at Netflix celebrate when the current U.S. President declared war (not war police action. Not police action, regime change. whatever) on Iran? You have to think one of them did, right? This is probably here nor there. The basic plotline: A soldier, still grieving the loss of his brother, takes part in Army Ranger qualifications. In his final challenge, the assignment goes haywire when an alien berserker…

  • The Path Not Taken

    Recently Disney released a trailer for The Mandalorean and Grogu. It looks fun, like good-humored family fare—a return to the 1940s serial aesthetic of The New Hope. It feels like they’ve crammed as much fan service as they could into a two-minute ad. From the opening shots that could have been lifted whole-cloth from previous Skywalker Saga films, to cameo appearances of Jabba or Zeb, to the revived rebel base…

  • Denial of Heroes

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SCIENCE FICTION – DOUBLE FEATURE

Reality is weird. The science that reflects our understanding of reality is weird. The very mission of science fiction is to reflect that weirdness in ways that fill the reader with wonder. Science fiction writers aren’t here to repeat comfortable tropes. We’re here to make the reader confront the unabashed nuttiness of reality and their place in it.

E.W. Doc Parris

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