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Why I will never accept a Hugo Nomination or Award

I know, ambitious much? In the SF world of writing I am a non-entity. My non-fiction books sell much better, nevertheless, having been exposed to the disgusting process that are the Hugos and the SFWA membership currently, I can categorically state that before I would ever accept a nomination to the Hugos, the SFWA would have to purge itself of all the NAMBLA supporters like Sam Delaney, who explicitly state it would be wrong to punish an adult for having sexual relations with a six year old. I am not making it up. Go read the link, it’s his own words. So, until the SWFA purges itself throughly of child molestors and rapists like Ed Kramer, and publicly denounce and burn an effigy of the ones that are dead like Marion Zimmer Bradley, and her child-rapist convicted husband, I am not going to have anything to do with anything related to them, nor will I accept any nominations for a Hugo. Read more »

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  1. Hugos 2015 – The Hurricane of Hypocrisy
  2. My Prediction of the Hugos

By G | 29 August 2015 | Posted in Agnostic Christianity, Books, Fighting SJWs, Social Commentary, Writing

My Prediction of the Hugos

I am going on record with my best guess before it all comes out. This assumes no censorious SJW vast conspiracy or sudden “electrical fire” doesn’t destroy the unadulterated ballots. I don’t seriously think there is a real possibility of the voting being unfairly counted or outright faked, but… humans. You know the species. Anyway, here are my predictions: UPDATE: Chaos Horizon has the best statistical analysis of the whole Hugo mess. It’s brilliant and exposes the SJWs impartially and mercilessly, because that’s how truth works.

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By G | 1 August 2015 | Posted in Books, Fighting SJWs, Humour, News, Social Commentary, Writing

The Evil Empire of Evil

Evil Empire of Evil

 

You may know about the Evil Legion of Evil and it’s admirable assault on the forces of Political Correctness. You may in fact, even be a Vile Faceless Minion. You may even be Proud about it. And yet; there remains an unfulfilled level of pride. And as the Evil Empire of Evildoers well know, Arrogant pride in our Evilness is basically a requirement. Many Vile Faceless Minions are required. Indeed we must accept that their bodies are useful for the making of steps with which we, more arrogant, more specifically and intentionally Evil, Evildoers climb over the bastions of Social Justice Wankerism and storm the ideological walls of Cultural Marxism with relish, jumping right in the midst of their fortified keeps and slashing away with crimson lightsabers at will.

Some of us, you see, are not satisfied in being simply faceless and nameless minions. Some of us want our face and names recognised and feared throughout the Galaxy. You get better table service for one.

In order to avoid confusion, here is a schematic to show you how the Evil Empire of Evil relates to the Evil Legion of Evil as a subset. If the shape seems suggestive to your unconscious of any other vast Galactic conflicts, let that just be reassurance that we, on the side of Evil, are going about this the right way. Read more »

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By G | 4 May 2015 | Posted in Books, Humour, Nazi Conspiracies, Social Commentary, Writing

Hugos 2015 – The Hurricane of Hypocrisy

This post is going to be long, but I had to do it, because I had a sign from above you see. I had been thinking of joining the tornado of blog posts on this topic, but what clinched it was that I bought a kinder egg for my daughter and when I opened it for her it had this in it.

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Seriously. I am not making this up.

Unless you have been living under a rock with all things relating to writing and science fiction in particular, that is the Hugo awards, you will by now know about the main cause of puppy related sadness. If you do not, here is the best link of the whole summary of it written by the creator of the sad puppies campaign himself in his reply to George RR Martin, the creator of a Song of Ice and Fire (better known as a Game of Thrones from the TV series) who wrote a series of thinly veiled disingenuous posts (here is a big one) about the whole Sad Puppies campaign.

Wait, did I just call the creator of a Game of Thrones a liar? Yes. Yes I most certainly did. And that is doing him a favour, because the alternative is that he is so completely incompetent at reading and comprehension that he would have had to obviously have suddenly developed an advanced case of Alzheimer’s and/or it would mean all of his books have been clearly ghostwritten by someone other than him.

“Whoa there cowboy,” you might say, “them’s pretty strong fighting words. You got anything to back that up?”

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By G | 11 April 2015 | Posted in Agnostic Christianity, Books, Social Commentary, Writing

Red Space! I join the Evil league of Evil

Well, it had to happen! Once again, I am being paid to subvert the status quo.

As some of the fourteen million spam bots and half-dozen Russian hackers that still read my blog know, my very first paid work as a writer was for a subversive publication that may have resulted in the collapse of the then still semi-apartheid government of South Africa.

Yes, gentle readers, for in that publication, there were pictures of women. Scantily clad ones, that usually bared their breasts! (Yes! Yes, gasp! Gasp away and clutch at your pearls in scandal, but such is the life of the fearless destroyer of Nazi Regimes) although today that publication would pass as a dentist’s waiting room coffee table magazine, that’s not the point. Back then, SCOPE Magazine, was known as the most virulent form of vile pornography that the Western World, in attempt to subvert the Nazi-like purity of the South African government, was trying to foster on the innocent minds of the naive Dutchmen of that country.

I know. Western civilisation was probably destroyed by it. But the point is another. For you see, I am now  published, as part of an anthology (a first for me!) by an official publisher.

And who is that publisher you ask? Ah well… this is where my roots as an indefatiguable contrarian and paladin for individual thought and the rejection of all things that fall under the label of political correctness and/or Social Justice Wankers (yes, that IS the correct name, I refuse to pervert the language by calling them social justice warriors) comes into play, because you see, the publisher is Castalia House.

And Castalia House you see, is run/owned by Vox Day.

And Vox Day, is of course The Supreme Dark Lord of the Evil League of Evil.

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By G | 11 February 2015 | Posted in Books, Social Commentary, Writing

Top 10 Books to Un-Borg

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I have been thinking of doing this for a long time. Actually I plan to extend it to 100 books that I think are a good foundation for anyone to read in order to have a more rounded, more able, and most of all a more independent way of thinking than just unconsciously going along with the greater reactive biomass that is carefully being shaped by TV and other mass media, including this here Internet. Just to be clear then, my criteria for whether a book makes it into my top 100 is primarily based on the practical, real effect it has on you awakening from the dreary, matrix-like slumber induced by the almost homogeneous mass media effect.

If you just want to skip to the list CLICK HERE.

If you want to read a little bit about how I chose it first, then read on.

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By G | 14 November 2013 | Posted in Ancient Technology, Books, Human Performance, Nazi Conspiracies, Overlords of Mars - 1, Social Commentary

Overlords of Mars 2 now also on kindle

It’s available in print or kindle. Just click on whichever one you want below and it will take you straight to it:

Overlords of Mars – Stasis – Kindle USA

Overlords of Mars – Stasis (Volume 2) Print USA

Overlords of Mars – Stasis Kindle UK

Overlords of Mars – Stasis: 2 Print UK

Or just search for Overlords of Mars Stasis in your respective Amazon in your country.

 

 

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By G | 22 October 2013 | Posted in Books, Nazi Conspiracies, News, Overlords of Mars - 1, Overlords of Mars - 2, Writing

Overlords of Mars – Book 2 finally out!

 

You can get it now on Amazon USA, Amazon UK or various other Amazon EU countries (or Canada) by going to your version of Amazon.

The front and back covers are below and this is a big one, 479 pages of hardcore SF and all at pretty breakneck pace, so it covers a lot of ground. Enough, I think, to begin to seriously think of this as Space Opera that could do well as a film. So if you are a Hollywood producer, give me a ring, I’m cheap! More info on the book below the image.

 

 

Below is some technical stuff on the book, but before that… I am trying to break the mould here by seeing if I can increase the population of female SF fans. Yes ladies, there is not just zap guns and space Nazis in this one…there is lots of romantic drama too. Not so much of the candle lit dinner variety (there is one dinner scene though, honest!) so we’ll see if I manage to redefine the whole genre of SF commonly known as “Hard Science Fiction”.

This book is not out in kindle yet because the file for that is proving problematic. Mainly because I have quite a lot of background content that doesn’t format well. There is an annotated map of Mars in it, a table of contents, which should ideally be hyperlinks in the kindle format, and a few other appendix tables that give the explanations for the military insignia and rankings of the various military factions on Mars, as well as explain ship sizes and nomenclature and finally an appendix of all the bases on Mars with their names and a brief description on each one. In other words, this not only has the main story, which is massive and which begins to play out a lot of those plot tendrils some smart readers had picked up in the first book, but it also has all the groundwork on it to give you a truly solar system wide dimension of the whole story.

I hope you all like it anyway, I know many of you were waiting a long time for this, and I can only apologise for the delay. It’s a learning process for me too, as I learn how to avoid delays in certain production processes that I find out about only as I smack my face into them (the kindle delay for example being another).

I am also trying to see about making a very short video introducing the series, and we’ll see how that goes in the next few months.

Sadly a lot of real world issues in my life at the moment have become total life/time/soul sucking events, so I have not had time to update this blog at all, but then..you now have almost 500 pages of new fiction to read, so that should keep you guys and girls busy for a while.

And pssst… book three is about 25% written already and I expect I will get a bit of a break over Xmas so maybe I’ll have the next instalment done quicker than this one.

 

 

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By G | 5 October 2013 | Posted in Books, News, Overlords of Mars - 2, Writing

Overlords of Mars: Inception

 

Here it is ladies and germs! Finally the finished version. Some of you may recall this book was issued as an advance reader copy on kindle and as a paper book too. This was a bit of an experiment on my part to see how many people are interested in a book that has had no professional editing. As it turns out, it’s quite a bit more than I thought, however, I certainly hope that now that it’s been all fixed up and has a new, less scary cover, that it will literally fly into your homes straight from Amazon, whether in beautiful dead tree format or in digital/kindle/iPad/retinal scan projection, or whatever they will think of next. See below to read a bit about the amazing cover image. Read more »

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By G | 27 March 2013 | Posted in Books, Overlords of Mars - 1

On Writing – (Specifically, MY Writing)

 

The Naggon - One of the attack beings of evil Grammar species

 

Anyone who has tried to actually become a professional writer knows two things:

  • It is damned hard work. It’s right up there with working in salt mines. On an asteroid. With a leaky Vacc suit and only an old roll of duct tape to help you patch the holes. And the salt is radioactive. (Non-writers will think this hyperbole. Fools.)
  • It cannot actually be done. Logically it is impossible. Grammar is imperfect, and so, perfect works, must remain continually marred by imperfect, outdated, avant-guarde, passe, cliched, too flashy, too boring or too something or other grammar. This however, is something we can live with. But punctuation, oh, sweet mercy, punctuation…well, what do you think that Naggon up there is huh? That’s right, the Naggon is punctuation.

For the elucidation of the pedants and the grammar Nazis (Hi my sweet, sweet, editor), I have decided to collect a few of my writing idiosyncrasies here, though my editor would probably refer to them as idiot-syncrasies.

A small warning: This is pretty long and also, I try to offend everyone equally so as to be fair about it. If you are a writer or an editor or anyone interested in language, grammar or punctuation in general, or if you are American, English or French, or religious, or sensitive, or some damn hippie thing or other, then some part of this post is almost guaranteed to get you to bite at your keyboard rabidly whilst foaming at the mouth.

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By G | 1 December 2012 | Posted in Books, Humour, Social Commentary, Writing

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