Setting: Galactic Empire, part 2
In part 1, I wrote about the enormous scale of a galactic empire. If we’re going to turn that empire into a decent setting for a story, we’ll need to understand its economics. The first thing we need...
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The Rim of Space I’m sneaking in one more post at the end of Vintage Science Fiction Month. Last week, I posted about Secret Agent of Terra by John Brunner, which I read in Ace Double #F-133. The...
View ArticleEmbers of War
At the start of the year, I posted a list of books I was planning to read for the Planetary Awards. I’m going to try to blast out mini-reviews of the ones I’ve read before the February 14th nomination...
View ArticleReading on the Road
I haven’t been posting regularly for the past few months, as I wound down my last job and then drove back and forth across the country for job interviews. It’s been fatiguing, but allowed me to burn...
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