In a prequel to the book GOD GAMES, The Fifty-Five Hundred survived the Holy Nuclear War. And when they emerged from caves 2,000 years later they were a changed people. What happened?
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Yahweh vs. The Warthog
Ever been chased by one of these? Or maybe it sometimes feels like you were chased by one. Well, you are not the only one!
Here’s a quick snippet from GOD GAMES that shows what happened after Yahweh (lost in the Garden of Eden) gets chased down by an angry warthog.
Judge Jehoel and the Cherubim Commander- Playing Card
In GOD GAMES, all the characters are named after biblical angels, although I did take some liberties as is the norm in SciFi. In general, I used an angel’s name whose description came close to matching the trait of a particular character. Each playing card features two main GOD GAMES characters reflecting their role in the book and their relationship to each other. Check out this blog post for more information on how I named…
Raphael and Gabrielle- Playing Card
It’s been a while since my last post. But been busy preparing GOD GAMES for a December 2021 eBook launch. To that end, I’ve commissioned Jon Stubbington to create images of key GOD GAMES characters that shows their relative roles in the story. Wanting to have fun with the book title, I decided to present the characters as playing cards. See the post, “A New Book Cover and a Dark Side,” on how that idea…
What Technologies Do You Use or Want to Read About In Your SciFi Books?
~Seven Scientific Concepts of GOD GAMES~ The SciFi novel GOD GAMES explores the philosophical and competing aspects of an advanced scientific society with deep roots in religion and how this civilization can affect another less technically advanced culture. But driving the story line is science and technology. There isn’t time to write about them all in this post. So, I’ll just mention seven concepts with some examples in GOD GAMES. While they start out following…
What’s GOD GAMES about?
GOD GAMES is an upside down SciFi retelling of the greatest story ever told where a tech-utopian Heaven has sworn off religion but trouble brews as a new religious movement threatens Heaven’s peaceful society. Now, it all comes down to a secular Yahweh who must fight a losing battle of wits and brawn against an imposing evangelical Lucifer over the fate of humans discovered in a parallel universe. Yahweh must either defeat Lucifer or suffer…
The Three Most Important Things for A Good Science Fiction Story- Part 2
In my last newsletter post, I showed why the most important thing for a good Science Fiction story is a Bad Romance. It’s that troubled road of love to acquire someone or something. A bad romance makes for a good SciFi story because we humans want to see a struggle, or a conflict that brings about a change. For those of you who want to catch up or read more about why a bad romance…
The Three Most Important Things for A Good Science Fiction Story- Part 1
Sorry for my short writing hiatus this past week or so, but I was drafted to do some heavy (and free… sigh) videography work for my family’s grand Zoom Family Reunion event. It was a smashing success! But in between breaks and the working to 5:30AM sprints, I thought about what’s in a story. There are lots of things that go into writing a good SciFi, well any story really. The plot, the research, the…
How Our Universe Was Made- the true story!
So who is right? Some religious folks might say that six thousand years ago some guy (yea ladies a guy) got a bright idea to create something to keep him company. Stephen Hawkins would probably disagree favoring a 13 billion year timeline and the method of creation was more like a big bang. He didn’t say whether a boy or girl did it. Then there’s Prof. Paul Steinhardt (Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton…
Forget Selling Books. It’s Merchandising, That’s Where The Real Money Is Made!
Part of my promotion for GOD GAMES includes illustrations of the major characters of this SciFi rewrite of the greatest biblical story ever told. I’m talking about Genesis, the creation and the Garden of Eden. But in this upside down story, there’s also some provoking backdrop in that Heaven (where Earth was created) is really a tech utopia where science and technology has replaced religion. Now, not everyone is happy with this secular society, especially…