Time Like Broken Glass now in Print

May 7, 2017 mdjackson 0

Don’t like e-books? Miss the tactile experience you get with actual, physical, printed-on-paper type books? Well, my latest book TIME LIKE BROKEN GLASS is now available from my publisher, Rage Machine Books in a print version! You can order a copy and get it at a 30% discount for a limited Read More

Guns Drawn: Space Westerns!

May 3, 2017 GW Thomas 0

In recent years, Josh Whedon’s Firefly and Serenity have brought the Space Western back to the public eye. Though not a commercial success, Whedon’s tales of the crew of the Serenity have sparked a new interest in the cowboys from space. The first Science Fiction pulp stories were not adventure-oriented. Read More

Ace Double Novels: Double your Pleasure, Double your fun!

May 2, 2017 mdjackson 0

  What’s better than one of something? Two of something, of course! Most science fiction readers of a certain age remember with a great deal of fondness the series of Ace Double Novels which were released from 1953 to 1973 and were a distinctive part of the science-fiction community throughout Read More

How Big is a Book?

May 2, 2017 mdjackson 0

How big is a book? It’s as big as it needs to be Novels. Novellas. Novellettes. Short Stories. Each is an arbitrary category for a particular length of fiction. There is no “right” length for a story really and the prevailing wisdom about the lengths that a novel must be are Read More

Military SF or The Books With the BFG’s

May 2, 2017 mdjackson 0

Military SF is pretty much what it implies. It’s science fiction that explores the future of warfare. It’s not quite space opera, although it does cover some of the same ground, and it’s not quite just science fiction because it doesn’t necessarily (although it can) explore big ideas. But it Read More