Stolen from novelist David McIntee: Name six of your fandoms without looking below the cut, then answer the questions. Okie-day! I’m interpretting “fandom” broadly—I like bands, I like books, I like television shows. So, broad definitions here. My six are: Hellboy The Beatles Doctor Who The Lord of the Rings Star Trek Boston Legal AndContinue reading “On Weird Fandom Questions”
Tag Archives: Star Trek
On New Doctor Who Comics
IDW, published of comics based on Star Trek and the Transformers, has picked up the comics license for Doctor Who. Announced at San Diego Comicon yesterday, the series will star the tenth Doctor and Martha and will debut later in the year, written by Doctor Who novelist Gary Russell and with art by Nick Roche.Continue reading “On New Doctor Who Comics”
On Product Solicits
This afternoon I had to write up product solicits for trading cards. These aren’t especially difficult. The text is generally a given. Usually the most I have to do is to clean up tenses, clean up bolding and italics, add verbs, and give some product specifications like number of cards per pack, number of packsContinue reading “On Product Solicits”
On the Shore Leave Round-Up
It occurs to me that others have written long and lengthy posts about the things they did at Shore Leave over the weekend. I’ve mentioned dribs and drabbles here and there–yes, the TARDIS USB hub is fantastic–but I haven’t done an all-encompassing thing. And since it’s Thursday (or something like that–my time sense has goneContinue reading “On the Shore Leave Round-Up”
On Green Blood
It turns out that you don’t have to be a Vulcan like Spock or Tuvok to have green blood. No, you merely need to have migraines. A team of Canadian surgeons discovered during an operation that their patient had dark green blood. Why? Because of the migraine medication he was on, sumatriptan. The result? ThisContinue reading “On Green Blood”
On Roadtrips
I was thinking of a short story I wrote about five years back. Pocket Books runs the Strange New Worlds contest for unpublished authors — they can write short stories featuring the Star Trek characters and submit to the contest. I was eligible, and I came up with an idea that I really liked. ItContinue reading “On Roadtrips”
On Automatic Silliness
I saw this on several friends’ LiveJournals: a short story generator. Most everyone used it to create bad Star Trek fanfic, but I decided to be different. I’d create Doctor Who fanfic. So, with much ado, I give you… The Cat Princess The Doctor was walking through a turgid meadow, laughing at the butterflies flittingContinue reading “On Automatic Silliness”
On Grand Designs
Grand Designs, the Star Trek: Corps of Engineers compilation containing my novella Ring Around the Sky, will be published by Pocket Books in July of 2007. The cover for it was unveiled today: The cover image is of the world Kharzh’ulla IV, seen in my story, as rendered by artist Chris Moore. Kharzh’ulla boasts ofContinue reading “On Grand Designs”
On Why Things Explode
I told someone today, in all seriousness, that the reason Photon Torpedoes make Really Big Bangs is that the explosive charge is Illudium Q-36, a mineral found only on Mars. This will doubtless come in very handy for his writing endeavors. Bwah-ha-ha!
On All Those Years Ago
It was forty years ago today Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play…. Well, not quite. But it was forty years ago today, on September 8th, 1966, that Star Trek debuted on NBC. Celebrate in style! Put in a DVD, watch a movie or your favorite episode. Read a book–might I recommend Constellations, a bookContinue reading “On All Those Years Ago”