Here are two new character playing cards from my new SciFi book GOD GAMES! Tell me what you think. Do you like it? I’m working on more playing cards and would appreciate your suggestions and comments!
Tag: science fiction
GOD GAMES… WHY I WROTE IT.
A question I get a lot is what drove me to write GOD Games and, well, ahhh, put religion in a dim light. Religion is not bad. Faith/belief drives human determination, endurance and greatness. But…
Fear, Curiosity and Determination Drives the SciFi Story
What does flying an airplane have to do with SciFi story character development? Read about my personal experience to find out!
Matrix Resurrections- A Movie Review
Thinking about watching MATRIX RESURRECTIONS? Well, MATRIX RESURRECTIONS should have been called MATRIX REMINISCENCE. Find out why.
GOD GAMES SciFi BOOK LAUNCHED TODAY!
Today is a special day! GOD GAMES, my first FOUR (count’em FOUR) star rated Science Fiction book launched on Amazon/GoodReads. Those stars were hard earned with book reviewers’ quotes like “thought-provoking science fiction story;” and “a well-executed story with much to offer;” and “author includes a fascinating array of futuristic technology: full body 3D printers, soul storage devices, satellites that can affectively teleport you from one place to another;” and “the storyline is fast-paced […]…
Skin Color & The Fifty-Five Hundred
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?
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…
Don’t Touch That!
As I said in earlier posts, believability is one of the three most important things for successful SciFi writing. The most important of which is believability. Put yourself in the reader’s position. It doesn’t matter what genre. You got to think that what the person is doing in the story is something you might do in the same situation. Or better still, is it something that makes common sense? If it doesn’t, then there had…
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…