If you enjoyed Love Death + Robots on Netflix and you would like to own the anthology of all the short stories that were the basis for the first season, I have good news: it’s on sale this week at Amazon for the low, low price of $2.99 for the Kindle version. Here are…
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ORDERS OF BATTLE release day
Today is the day! After almost two years, there’s a new Frontlines novel out. ORDERS OF BATTLE is the seventh volume in the series and picks up a few years after the last book. Things have calmed down a bit for humanity after POINTS OF IMPACT, but the Lankies are still out there, and…
Sci-Fi Shenanigans interview
The Sci-Fi Shenanigans podcast interview I mentioned in my previous post can be found here: http://www.sfshenanigans.com/2020/08/25/sfs-episode-167-marko-kloos-dragon-award-finalist/ Check it out if you want to hear me talk for close to an hour and give no fewer than three involuntary sales pitches for various aspects of Uncle Jeff’s Book and Trinket Emporium. I was on the shortlist…
Isolation update
We are safely isolating here at Castle Frostbite and doing what we do most of the time anyway, which is to cook food and eat snacks and play games. The kids have been in an online charter school for a year now, so not much has changed around here other than the fact that I…
Pub date change for BALLISTIC
I’ve been informed that BALLISTIC, second novel of the Palladium Wars series, has been moved up in the schedule for a publication date of May 26, 2020. If you’d like to pre-order it, you can do so via this link. BALLISTIC will be available in paperback, hardcover, Kindle, and Audible formats. (Lots of pre-orders will…
An interview and a weekend trip
Here’s an interview with me over on Paul Semel’s blog, in which I talk about the ideas and motivations behind AFTERSHOCKS and the general world-building and setup of the Palladium Wars universe. I spent part of the weekend in New York City, to have lunch with my editor and take the German nephew along so…
New blog entry at Wild Cards World
In other Wild Cards news, there’s a new post on the Wild Cards World blog, this one by Michael Cassutt: “Word-building in Wild Cards” (yes, you read that correctly.) I’ve talked about writing for Wild Cards before (most extensively in this post from a while back), but one thing I only touched on in that…
Online sources for the LD+R stories
Andrew Liptak at The Verge has a handy post up that lists the online sources for most of the short stories serving as material for Love Death+Robots. In related news, I’ll never get tired of seeing Samira Wiley as Lt. Colby, the pilot of Lucky 13 in the Netflix version. Yes, the original character in…
Low Chicago
Today, Tor.com is featuring a long excerpt from LOW CHICAGO, the Wild Cards novel out in June. The stripey fellow on the featured image is my Wild Cards joker-ace Khan, and he appears in the excerpt (which is the interstitial for the novel, written by John Joseph Miller.) It’s time-travel story, so you can probably…
Veterans and mental health
Part of what I have tried to accomplish with Frontlines is breaking out of the typical military SF mold a little bit when it comes to depicting soldier mindsets. With the sixth book in particular, I wanted to address the endless wars we tend to fight lately, and their effects on the minds of the…