I recently rediscovered this one, though I’m pretty sure I saw it fifteen years ago and forgot about it. Still one of the best videos on the internet.
Author: Joe Vasicek
Joe Vasicek is the author of more than twenty science fiction books, including the Star Wanderers and Sons of the Starfarers series. As a young man, he studied Arabic and traveled across the Middle East and the Caucasus. He claims Utah as his home.
I will never apologize for refusing to use sensitivity readers.
The Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming estates have been in the news lately, after their publishers have worked with committees of “sensitivity readers” to rework their books in order to make them less offensive to woke sensibilities. The outcry was so great that Roald Dahl’s publishers agreed not to go through with their plan to… Continue reading I will never apologize for refusing to use sensitivity readers.
New Star Wanderers cover reveal!
Behold! This is officially the new ebook cover for Star Wanderers. I’ve uploaded it to all platforms, though I haven’t updated the epub files yet. I’ll also update the paperbacks as soon as I have a chance, though that may take a while, especially with the new baby. This image was AI generated using Stable… Continue reading New Star Wanderers cover reveal!
Why I’m not worried about AI replacing writers
So machine learning artificial intelligence has really been blowing up this past month, probably because of ChatGPT and all of the fascinating things that people are doing with it. I’ve been getting into it myself, using it to help write or improve my book descriptions, and also experimenting with it for writing stories. At this… Continue reading Why I’m not worried about AI replacing writers
Can this video possibly be more Georgian?
All it needs is a couple of old men playing backgammon on a folding table by the side of the road… although that’s something you see more of in the town, not the village. For goodness’ sakes, it even has a rooster crowing at the end!
IT IS DONE
At long last, after more than a year, the rough draft of Children of the Starry Sea is now complete! It clocked in at just over 149k words, which makes it the longest book I have written since I started publishing (the first novel I ever finished was a 168k word train wreck that will… Continue reading IT IS DONE
The Babylon Bee Guide to Every Christian Denomination
Saw this video a couple of days ago, thought it was hilarious—especially the parts about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: “Mormons? Just kidding—we said Christian denominations!” And then later… “Unitarian Universalists? They’re atheists. We’ll even take the Mormons over these guys.” Although, to be fair… if Joseph Smith’s first vision was real,… Continue reading The Babylon Bee Guide to Every Christian Denomination
Are vaccine-related deaths decimating the SF field?
This is an extremely polarizing and contentious issue right now, so I’m going to try to make this post as fact-based and non-sensational as possible. Full disclosure: I never got the covid shot. My wife and I both had covid before the “vaccines” became available, and decided that our natural immunity provided enough protection for… Continue reading Are vaccine-related deaths decimating the SF field?
My first attempt to write a short story with Chat GPT
[TL;DR: I didn’t get past the prewriting stage, because the AI’s safeguards forbid it from writing honestly about certain themes. My goal was to feed it the first 2k words of a story fragment and see how it finished the story, but if the theme of the story itself is verbotten, I don’t see how… Continue reading My first attempt to write a short story with Chat GPT
New Star Wanderers cover mockup
So I’ve been playing around with Stable Diffusion, working on a new cover for Star Wanderers. This is what I came up with: What do you guys think? And how does it compare with the cover mockup I did yesterday for Children of the Starry Sea? …and now I should probably take a break from… Continue reading New Star Wanderers cover mockup