Dan Simmons - Author's Official Web Site. Hyperion Cantos. A E van Vogt. Alastair Reynolds. Charlie's Diary. I am entranced by cause and effect. This probably has some direct bearing on my chosen career as a storyteller. The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a line around the incomprehensible largeness of reality and wrestle it into something learnable and manipulable. Existence is devoid of plot, theme, and most of all moral. And yet I can still be struck dumb when two facts I knew, but never really considered before, snap into synthesis. Consider: wildfires appear to have been more common and more widespread during the Cretaceous period. (I've found a few references to a 2013 study that seems to indicate that Triassic oxygen levels may have been even lower, but that's a whole different era of the same eon.
I knew these two facts in isolation for some time. Huh. Or more precisely, a-hah! One of my great joys as a writer lies in teaching. I love unreliable narrators. One thing is implied in another. Free eBooks for iPhone, Blackberry or Palm Pre. Neal Stephenson. Syfy: Imagine Greater. BattlestarGalactica.COM: News & Events. Caprica - Full Episodes and Clips streaming online - Hulu.
Hatrack River - The Official Web Site of Orson Scott Card. Orson Scott Card. Iain [M] Banks. The Early Days of a Better Nation.