Category: Geeky Stuff

Galaxy of Horrors

Happy Halloween everyone! NASA has put out a set of creepy space posters for some truly bizarre and terrifying exo-planets on their “Galaxy of Horrors” web site. Drop by and learn all about the chillingly haunted galactic graveyard, the dark matter skeleton of our cosmos, the pulsar poltergeists of undead...

Blood Mountain Siege Released

Blood Mountain Siege, Book 5 of The Siege Chronicles, is available now on Amazon.com. With the hard-fought battles for the war-torn Baronies of Ambricar now behind them, Davrick, Sid, and Talyaana finally have a chance to catch their breath. But no sooner have they settled into their new digs than they are...

Comparison of Various Sci-Fi Ships

Take a look at this video showing size comparisons between some 80 different ships from various sci-fi series — mainly from movies, but also from games and books as well. I was actually surprised to see a few, such as White Base from Gundam, Götterdämmerung from Iron Sky, the Red...

Weird Al’s “We’re All Doomed!”

CNN host Jake Tapper called the first 2020 Presidential Debate “A hot mess inside a dumpster fire inside a train wreck.” And he wasn’t wrong. Personally, I could barely watch the debate, and had to take it in small doses just to get through the highlights. However, the ever-brilliant “Weird...

Aircruiser Siege Released

Aircruiser Siege, Book 4 of The Siege Chronicles, is available now on Amazon.com. In route to the last bastion of the Baronies of Ambricar, Davrick, Sid, and Talyaana fly headlong into the Grand Imperium’s blockade armada. When the remaining Baronial blockade runners go down in the sulfur shoals, they hasten to find...

DUNE First Trailer

The first trailer for the upcoming Dune movie has just been released. Unlike the 1984 movie adaptation by David Lynch, this new adaptation promises to be truer to the book (i.e., no ridiculous voice-powered sonic weapons…). Judging from what I’ve seen in this trailer, it is indeed much truer to...

Gearmeister Siege Released

Gearmeister Siege, Book 3 of The Siege Chronicles, is available now on Amazon.com. Having survived another death-defying battle, Davrick hopes he might finally get a chance to rest easy. But word soon arrives of a major Resistance defeat at the hands of the Grand Imperium’s relentless legions. Those not killed have...

An Honorable Mention to DragonCon

Well, DragonCon 2020 is canceled this year, due to COVID-19, apart from some virtual convention events that you can see here. I thought it might be a good time to put up this old CollegeHumor “Cosplay Catastrophe” video. Yes, it’s about Comic-Con, but if you’ve ever been to DragonCon, then...

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

Alex Kurtzman, who’s presently in charge of new Star Trek projects, says that the upcoming new Star Trek series, Strange New Worlds, will return to its roots, with episodic “planet-of-the-week” stories and the bright optimism for the future that made The Original Series so endearing (and enduring). Star Trek: Strange...

Mercenary Siege Released

Mercenary Siege, Book 2 of The Siege Chronicles, is available now on Amazon.com. Following their daring escape from the battle-train in a stolen ornithopter, Davrick, Sid, and Talyaana are out of fuel and forced to land. Pursued by enemy search parties, the trio sets off across the scarred battlefields of a kingdom...