Welcome to the Zeedub Blog! I have a lot to say about all sorts of things, be them in the form of book reviews, interviews, or casual musings about the wonderful world of hummus. Disclaimer: my opinions are my own and they change over time, like a normal human being with a functioning cerebrial cortex.
One thing I have learned after four decades on this planet is that anything can get boring. Donuts for breakfast? The delight will fade. Roller coasters every day? The thrill will abate. Reading sci-fi on a regular basis? (gasp) Yes, even that will...
Andy Weir, famed author of The Martian, has carved out a unique place among the greats of science fiction. He has single-handedly created his own sub-genre, which I can best describe as "witty serious." Hard and funny science fiction rarely go...
Every author has a love-hate relationship with technology. It is absolutely critical to modern publishing, can save immense amounts of time, but can also be a huge source of frustration. I often beat my head against the wall when trying to learn a...
Fantasy author team Geoff Habiger and Coy Kissee are at it again with Myth of the Tenz River Troll, a prequel novella that leads into the Constable Inspector Lunaria Adventure book series. These word-slingers are well-known for their genre mashups,...
Every now and then, you just need a little more. That's the beauty of short stories and novellas, in that they give authors room to flesh out interesting ideas that exist in tandem to the main story. So when I heard that authors Geoff Habiger and...
Have you ever written a character with an actor in mind? I have never started a project with an actor in mind, but characters will often reveal themselves as actors. One that sticks out for me is Max from Max and the Multiverse. From an early...
Now that we're on year two of a century-defining pandemic, I noticed a peculiar anomaly. I am actually feeling better about my writing life. The last few years have been a maddening tornado of shifting tastes and marketing woes. Every author I know...
We return to the Nelson Mandela Medical Space Station for the latest chapter in S.E. Sasaki's space opera thriller. Saving Grace is book four of The Grace Lord Series, one of the most original and interesting sagas I have read in quite some time....
We conclude season one of Wings of Earth with the Stranger Bedfellows finale (book five). If that sounds more like a television premise, then you are not far off. Eric Michael Craig constructed this series within an episodic framework. He treats...
Ethan Walker becomes a Fleet Captain! He acquires the Elysium Sun as a sister ship to the Olympus Dawn, and as one might expect: more ships, more problems. Walker takes it all in stride as the "more problems" also means "more money." It allows him...
The adventure continues for Captain Ethan Walker and his merry band of misfits aboard the Olympus Dawn. Chains of Dawn is book three in the Wings of Earth series by Eric Michael Craig. In lieu of jumping straight into the action, Craig takes a more...
"Hey, let's go exercise in the desert sun," said no reasonable person ever. But that's exactly what we did for session three of my "erase the horrors of 2020" recovery series. Don't get me wrong, the New Mexican landscape is a beauty to behold....
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