I thought this would be a good time talk about the comments I received from visitors to this blog. Overall, the response has been outstanding! Thanks to you all for your remarks and kind words. Your thoughts about Heaven’s Ant Farm are spot on. But this trait of clever insightfulness and observation does not seem to be coming from all corners. And the usual response I get from a group of slackers (and you know who you are) is…
Author: James
Pilot, geek, retired, happy, healthy, loves science/engineering and writing SciFi books!! 🤓
Thanks!
Just want to say thank you to the followers of my blog, friends and family for your support as I launch Heaven’s Ant Farm. May you and yours have a happy, healthy and prosperous 2015 New Year!
Angels
Authors put a lot of symbolism in their stories. These symbols can take many forms–a place, theme, action, even an odd juxtaposition of facts, background or situation to current events. For Heaven’s Ant Farm, I took names from established folklore, myths and religion to create the characters, their moods and drive their action. Now, using the names Yahweh and Lucifer was easy–everyone understands the traditions and belief behind those monikers. And while some thought that my use…
Vanity Card #5 – Nailing It
As I read through yet another literary agent reject letter, I reflect back on Chuck Lorre’s Vanity Card #436 for some solace and encouragement. Here, Chuck explains why a young actress’ only scene in a recent episode of The Big Bang Theory got cut. It “had absolutely nothing to do with her performance […] she nailed the part. Just nailed it.” Then he goes on to say they cut her scene in order to get…
I’m Not Religious–but I wrote this damn book
I’m not religious. But there is something big and wonderful going on out there…and no one can figure it out. Sure, there are the mystics and priests and prophets who claim they know. They speak with complex and convoluted ideas that some turn to their own advantage. Then there are the hard facts of evidence—theorems and experimental proof all written in complex equations of high order math and multi-dimensional string theory that few of us…
Houston, we still have a problem!!
Just saw this post in Tumblr titled Rich in Color where someone said, “I just don’t see how non-white characters would fit into my book.” Huh?? Houston we still have a problem! http://richincolor.tumblr.com
Super Dominance
So some of you challenged my notion and the real world science validity of super dominant genes. Well, I have two responses. First, this is science FICTION. 👽 Second, there is a precedent for how super dominant genes may work in the real world. Consider viruses. Viruses are basically genetic material encased in some sort of protein structure that eventually attaches itself to a cell, which basically suckes them inside. Once inside, the virus’ genetic material is freed…
What Happened?
In the book Heaven’s Ant Farm, the only survivors of Heaven’s Holy Nuclear War were forced to live in underground caves for 2,000 years. When their descendants came out from their underground sanctuary, they realized something had changed. They were all the same color. But the original 5500 survivors who went in underground to escape the war’s radiation were of different races and colors. The contrast between black, white, red and yellow skin tones prevalent before the…
What’s That Book About…Again??
At 34,527 feet somewhere over Greenland, I’m working on my 15 second elevator speech to have at the ready. I have always found it hard to describe what Heaven’s Ant Farm is about. There is so much to say and so little time to say it. And there is always the ever present danger of the dreaded “glaze effect.” You know, when the eyes of the afflicted takes on a frosty catatonic look as I dive…
Yahweh’s Sadness
Here is a summary of the fourth chapter from Heaven’s Ant Farm. Click here for a synopsis or click here to see the agent query letter for a brief description of this science fiction novel. Let me know what you think! Chapter 4- Yahweh’s Sadness Judge Jehoel, the senior elder of the Grand Council of Heaven summons Lucifer to explain himself. But Lucifer defies the high court. He accuses Heaven of breaking the Sixth Rule of Life by interfering…