The AFICTIONADO® Blog

The audiobook is now on sale!!  Check it out on Amazon or Audible. Mostly buried in the new draft this week.  I did have time to do some reading, though.  Picked up Sharan Newman’s Defending The City of God, non-fiction history of the Crusader states concentrating on the first half of the twelfth century.  I […]

The Nebula Awards have put up the schedule for the meeting 29 – 31 May.  Many of the sessions look good and I plan to attend a number of them.  Zoom has been working well for a number of different meetings; it will be interesting to see how it goes for a very large one.  […]

As you can see from the date, I’m a day late with this post.  No excuse for that, or no good one.  Need to do better. I did finish Sharon Kay Penman’s historical fiction, The Land Beyond The Sea.  This is a magnificent book, the story of the downfall of Outremer, the Crusader Kingdom of […]

I talked a little about the concept of hard sf last week.  One topic I mentioned but didn’t go into is the idea of hibernation/deep sleep/suspended animation.  For all the attention that we pay to physics, we don’t spend much time on this, but if we don’t have an FTL drive or a multi-generation ship, […]

The term hard sf (or hard science fiction) is used a lot but it seems to mean different things to different people.  To me, it is a story in which the author sticks within the confines of how the universe acts based on science, with as small a number of extrapolations as possible.  Some stories […]

There is a lot happening in the world today, but this blog was never designed as commentary on politics or pandemics.  Here, I will stick to writing and books. Closing in on getting the audiobook of Starman’s Saga ready.  I had never thought much about audiobooks before it was so strongly recommended to me.  I […]