by ObiwanSpock | Jul 12, 2016 | The Nine Suns, Zackery Arbela
I’ve been working on Book Three of the Nine Suns series for a few months now and am almost finished with the first draft. The book should be available for purchase sometime later this year. For your reading pleasure, here is an excerpt. Enjoy! Thus is the...
by ObiwanSpock | Jun 13, 2016 | Sunday Linkage, Tuesday Linkage, Zackery Arbela
The new “Big in Japan?” https://www.google.com/amp/www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2016/06/12/box-office-warcraft-bombs-in-america-outgrosses-star-wars-in-china/amp/?client=safari# The Best of the Worst…or just the worst…...
by ObiwanSpock | Jun 4, 2016 | Sunday Linkage, Zackery Arbela
Everything old is new again: http://io9.gizmodo.com/that-new-logans-run-movie-is-indeed-still-happening-1779871821 Hear me, you angels and saints, please don’t let it suck…...
by ObiwanSpock | Jun 2, 2016 | fantasy, Zackery Arbela
Sci-fi and fantasy are two of the three great branches of the tree of speculative fiction, the third being horror. But of these three branches, only horror merits its own section in the bookstore (both dead-tree and virtual versions.) Which is a shame, since sci-fi...
by ObiwanSpock | May 12, 2016 | awesome, Zackery Arbela
The time: late summer, 1997. The place, a small liberal arts school in upper Pennsatucky. The invitation came via the usual way in their pre-Facebook days, when making friends meant actually speaking to someone face to face, and there was no such thing as cyber...
by ObiwanSpock | May 4, 2016 | book review, fantasy, fantasy fiction, publishing, The Nine Suns, The Tale of Azaran, Zackery Arbela
The current superhero boom has been around long enough to inspire satires and piss takes – subverting the classic superhero tale is now as much of a tradition as…well, the traditional story. If you think about it, the idea of someone finding out he has...
