I lifted my bottle in the nick of time. The FaucMerz came crashing into the booth table with her opponent. We were at a space station, supposedly having "R&R". I had downgraded to a point where I was going to be content if we left without any deaths and without needing to escape while hounded by station security. For better and worse, this was typical behavior.
Rejkyavik's soldiers aren't meant to be nice, and they keep their girls "souped up" on the latest steroids to make them stronger and meaner and clearer thinking than the other girls. I had dared to attempt to befriend one of Rejkyavik's soldiers for two reasons. One showed up where I was - this almost never happens. The other reason is that if I find a discarded weapon, I normally pick it up. All of the Emperor's soldiers are classified as weaponry, but ones like the young woman Captain I was with seemed to also have minds of their own. Most of the mind was taken up with fighting, even the part that would normally be concerned with dating and mating.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
New Worlds - Inconjunction & the 7 novel SF series
http://uranianfiction.webs.com/
is one of the 2 main websites for finding An Adventure in Indianapolis. If you're a fan of Star Trek, discovering an SF novelist through An Adventure in Indianapolis might be a bit like that episode where the starship personnel have to cover the vulcan's funny ears with the big cap and they babble about LDS as a blanket excuse for their cultural misunderstanding. The characters in An Adventure in Indianapolis may also have seen that Star Trek episode - in that sense, they live much like we do.
The same cannot be said for Gezka FaucMerz or Kiel Bronson. Neither of these people has seen Star Trek, but of the two of them Kiel has the better chance because he is from planet Earth. Today, in tender preparation for the upcoming Inconjunction convention this weekend in Indianapolis I finally mapped out 7 of the novels. Kiel is really only in 4 or 5 of them, as the later stories focus on Rejkyavik's Empire in the far reaches of human colonized space.
is one of the 2 main websites for finding An Adventure in Indianapolis. If you're a fan of Star Trek, discovering an SF novelist through An Adventure in Indianapolis might be a bit like that episode where the starship personnel have to cover the vulcan's funny ears with the big cap and they babble about LDS as a blanket excuse for their cultural misunderstanding. The characters in An Adventure in Indianapolis may also have seen that Star Trek episode - in that sense, they live much like we do.
The same cannot be said for Gezka FaucMerz or Kiel Bronson. Neither of these people has seen Star Trek, but of the two of them Kiel has the better chance because he is from planet Earth. Today, in tender preparation for the upcoming Inconjunction convention this weekend in Indianapolis I finally mapped out 7 of the novels. Kiel is really only in 4 or 5 of them, as the later stories focus on Rejkyavik's Empire in the far reaches of human colonized space.
Friday, June 25, 2010
Kiel & Gezka don't even care...but you might....
http://www.alibris.com/booksearch?wauth=Barbara+Shoup&siteID=wv1I9XM390g-YrHB_D5frtqpLQGrbcgTfQ. At this mysterious link is a selection of books by an author who I have had the pleasure of meeting personally. In person you might not notice her as she appears to be entirely normal. She looks like a middle class, middle aged, slender American woman and that's true. However, she is also a multiple novelist, and a powerful advocate of writers in Indiana. Her name is Barb Shoup.
As a teacher, and an author, like myself she would tend to be frightened of and offended if confronted with the real life Gezka FaucMerz or Kiel Bronson, even if it is after Gezka is more relaxed and they are running the Interstellar mercenary Order The Children of Loki smoothly. This would be a normal reaction even if its safer because Kiel is there: the young alien Captain is often calmer when the older Earthling Sergeant is there. Still, most of us don't feel all that comfortable around infantry soldiers fresh out of combat and only less relaxed around murderers. Our fear of them is normal.
As a teacher, and an author, like myself she would tend to be frightened of and offended if confronted with the real life Gezka FaucMerz or Kiel Bronson, even if it is after Gezka is more relaxed and they are running the Interstellar mercenary Order The Children of Loki smoothly. This would be a normal reaction even if its safer because Kiel is there: the young alien Captain is often calmer when the older Earthling Sergeant is there. Still, most of us don't feel all that comfortable around infantry soldiers fresh out of combat and only less relaxed around murderers. Our fear of them is normal.
New Fangled Devices & SF
Nowadays there are electronic book readers such as the Kindle and the new nook; there are ebooks sold at various locations through the Internet. The last time I bought university textbooks I tried the electronic format version since they were cheaper. I have mixed feelings about that - I miss toting a real book and instead of paper glare I had even more time with the illuminated screen. Speaking of illuminated backgrounds - the English poet William Blake had a day job as a sign painter and he experimented with illuminated backdrops when conducting visual art experiments.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
More About Other Authors
http://www.llewellyn.com/blog/2010/06/safe-travel-spells-and-a-new-book/
This note connects you to a Debbie Blake who writes nf occult books for LLewellen: the occult publisher with the Welsh name.
I doubt I should try to explain how the same author that produced The Children of Loki would later generate An Adventure in Indianapolis. They are very different novels. In a way this seems perfectly alright but I suffer from chronic suspicious - its not always paranoia, but usually that's all it is.
This note connects you to a Debbie Blake who writes nf occult books for LLewellen: the occult publisher with the Welsh name.
I doubt I should try to explain how the same author that produced The Children of Loki would later generate An Adventure in Indianapolis. They are very different novels. In a way this seems perfectly alright but I suffer from chronic suspicious - its not always paranoia, but usually that's all it is.
New Link Generation for Novels
http://www.storebuilder.co.uk
This organization is one of many that are willing to link with mine. The novelist D E Bartley showed me this today, thanks to LinkedIn networking powers. Wow.
Gezka and Kiel, are I think, still hoping in the mysterious way that fictional characters hope to be born through someone writing and publishing the novel they are in - unless they can come out as a movie.
This organization is one of many that are willing to link with mine. The novelist D E Bartley showed me this today, thanks to LinkedIn networking powers. Wow.
Gezka and Kiel, are I think, still hoping in the mysterious way that fictional characters hope to be born through someone writing and publishing the novel they are in - unless they can come out as a movie.
Monday, June 14, 2010
The Children of Loki - Spawned
As you may well know, Loki was the blood brother of the god Odin in pre-Christian Scandinavia. Loki had a very serious problem: he was a half-breed of warring tribes and he was not treated very well as a direct consequence. The bottom line of his trouble was mixed loyalties. He was a giant, or something like it, but for some reason he became a god to the Aesir and blood-brother of Odin.
He was a trickster - to most contemporary Americans this means that he was more normal than many of his brethren in terms of his use of deception and trickery as part of his repetoire for dealing with life's challenges. Not the strongest brute or the best fighter, nor the wealthiest Loki survived by his wits in the face of pretty extreme challenges. The giants made him do this: the gods made him do that...and somehow he had to get through it and live, which was not always easy to do.
In the ancient myths he never had children, but in The Children of Loki - a number of soldiers and characters are all created, along with a set of circumstances worthy of being just that: Loki's own children. Gezka FaucMerz the genetically engineered and Kiel Bronson - the "barely not in prison" Sergeant are a testimony to the strange forces that influence people's lives in both reality and fictional story.
He was a trickster - to most contemporary Americans this means that he was more normal than many of his brethren in terms of his use of deception and trickery as part of his repetoire for dealing with life's challenges. Not the strongest brute or the best fighter, nor the wealthiest Loki survived by his wits in the face of pretty extreme challenges. The giants made him do this: the gods made him do that...and somehow he had to get through it and live, which was not always easy to do.
In the ancient myths he never had children, but in The Children of Loki - a number of soldiers and characters are all created, along with a set of circumstances worthy of being just that: Loki's own children. Gezka FaucMerz the genetically engineered and Kiel Bronson - the "barely not in prison" Sergeant are a testimony to the strange forces that influence people's lives in both reality and fictional story.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Another Author's Work: Fictional Teen Biography
Fellow author supported: Here is a link to a blog for another woman author. This might be more for your kid than for you - there's a wonderful novel about and about an adolescent. http://diaryofabibliophile-jesilea.blogspot.com/. Have a look for yourself.
Meanwhile: Gezka was happy to fight and to strategize but she really knew nothing about life outside of the Rejkyavikian Empire. As a consequence, she was quietly incredibly grateful for old Keil Bronson. While she condescended to the weak old Earthling man, she admired his assurance that he would find them work. Kiel, being pretty savvy, helped organize a means by which they could find a corporation that needed military troops. Bronson knew mercenary work; he had done it before - probably long before Gezka had grown up to be an officer.
Meanwhile: Gezka was happy to fight and to strategize but she really knew nothing about life outside of the Rejkyavikian Empire. As a consequence, she was quietly incredibly grateful for old Keil Bronson. While she condescended to the weak old Earthling man, she admired his assurance that he would find them work. Kiel, being pretty savvy, helped organize a means by which they could find a corporation that needed military troops. Bronson knew mercenary work; he had done it before - probably long before Gezka had grown up to be an officer.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
2 Novels, 2 genres, different characters
In the Blink of an Alien Eye aka The Children of Loki stars: Gezka FaucMerz as the interstellar genetically engineered and thoroughly brainwashed young woman warrior officer, and Kiel Bronson the well traveled mature independent man with a blend of legal military experience and a streak of criminality with which he is extremely comfortable. Gezka symbolizes something as the giant virgin Captain. Kiel signifies something else - never married, often a girlfriend, a sincere and passionate lover - this is the man who evaded prison through military service. He has no mixed feelings about it.
An Adventure in Indianapolis stars: an invisible foe -Tutweiler Buckhead, a white collar criminal with a management day job. At some point Tutweiler lost perspective and 'forgot' that consistently selling cocaine or meth amphetamine at stylish parties was actually drug trafficking and definitely illegal. He developed a habit of it and it seemed second nature as an aside from his normal working life as a responsible corporate suit. The bad guy is shocked when his double life collapses and he is confronted by the idea that his day job boss is going to find out he's been dealing drugs for years. He is not comfortable with it.
An Adventure in Indianapolis stars: an invisible foe -Tutweiler Buckhead, a white collar criminal with a management day job. At some point Tutweiler lost perspective and 'forgot' that consistently selling cocaine or meth amphetamine at stylish parties was actually drug trafficking and definitely illegal. He developed a habit of it and it seemed second nature as an aside from his normal working life as a responsible corporate suit. The bad guy is shocked when his double life collapses and he is confronted by the idea that his day job boss is going to find out he's been dealing drugs for years. He is not comfortable with it.
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