I just finished this epic fantasy novel (on Audible) a few days ago, and am overall unimpressed and a bit irritated. Right from the start of the book I knew I was in trouble, when during an action sequence he describes a character falling by saying he 'began to fall' and what he saw on …
Interstellar
I watched this cerebral sci fi flick over the weekend and I have to say it lived up to my expectations. In the near future, a global blight has taken out Earth's crops, and the remains of NASA plan to send the population to a new planet by traveling through a wormhole. The pilot, Cooper, …
Novella
SO... I wrote one a couple years ago and it's been siting in a figurative drawer collecting metaphorical dust since then because I hated it so much I couldn't bear to look at it. Well, I read it through recently, and it's actually not horrible! Strange how cruel our internal editors can be in the …
Shadow of the Torturer, by Gene Wolfe
I listened to this recently on Audible, and it was not what I expected. Though this is marketed as a sci-fi, the setting is really more of a medieval/fantasy type world. The prose is also very dramatic, dark and flowery, which seems more fit to a fantasy novel. The main character being a torturer who …
It’s out!
My story In the Water, which I posted a preview of a couple weeks ago, is now available on Kindle! Follow the link here. You can get it this weekend, starting tomorrow, for the special price of FREE, Saturday and Sunday only. (regularly .99) Check it out!
Jonas David 