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Awakened: Kurtherian Gambit 1 by Michael Anderle and Ell Leigh Clarke (no spoilers)
I managed to get through it, but it wasn’t easy This book repeatedly shows that the main protagonist is not a good leader or capable of handling personal issues, but then tells that she is, and goes with the tells. Not to mention that the thought process is hardly the alleged genius level – there…
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Character sketch: Asina from Preparations For War
Asina was born on the fractal demon dominated planet of Calmena, around Epsilon Indi, in one of the ‘free’ human holds. They are in fact anything but free, having a rigid caste based social structure where you are either a member of the noble classes, or a slave. Asina was ‘rescued’ by the first Earth…
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Character Sketch: Joseph Bernard (“Joe”) from Preparing The Ground
When we meet Joe, he’s a 22 year old community college drop out. He was studying to be an automobile mechanic, but he got lucky in that his aunt Grace was the first person from Earth to become a trained Guardian. The family is mixed race. His Anglo father was a retired Senior Chief in…
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First Draft Excerpt from Bubbles Of Creation
Petra was entertaining unexpected guests. Thane Jarfredir was an ambitious merchant, raised to the nobility because King Edvard thought he could do a better job running a fief than some younger son of the nobility who’d never learned anything more than sword-craft and putting on airs. He’d and his family and eight of his guards…
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Government in the Empire of Humanity
In accordance with M’Dorna’s Hypothesis and M’Don’s Equations, Imperial government is kept as small as realistically possible. The government provides military service, criminal justice, arbitration between parties in a dispute, investigative services (fee required in some instances), foreign relations, and that’s about all. The first thing to understand is that there are absolutely no inheritable…
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Graciela Juarez (“Grace”) in The Man From Empire
When we meet her at the beginning of The Man From Empire, Grace is 28 years old. She is five foot four, roughly 145 pounds, with medium brown skin, brown eyes and dark brown, almost black shoulder length hair. She’s on the chubby side, not fit. She calls herself a couch potato, from studying for…
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Capitalism
Capitalism gets a lot of bad press. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that since capitalism has no press agent, it’s a convenient whipping boy for governmental failures. But when you examine the actual historical record, what capitalism gets blamed for is damned near always the product of government meddling with the market.…
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Writing Tip
Today’s first assignment is to share a writing tip Mine is always to be working on more than one story idea. Especially as I seem to habitually write novel length stuff, rather than shorter stories. I have roughly ten to fifteen fiction ideas in folders of their own being developed, right now. Any time I…
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Praxeology – Something I Love
Praxeology is the deduction of what someone wants from their actions. It’s actually highly relevant to author skills – I use it constantly. Praxeology has very little to do with what someone says. Most folks in most things have a public agenda and a real (private) agenda. They’ll say what supports their public agenda, but…
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Historic versus Current Terms for operants in the Empire
Guardian: Originally a natural state (inoperant) human who undertook an exhaustive course of study and physical preparation intended to prepare them to compete with operants. Now generalized to include various level of operant. Modern usage for natural state humans who qualify via the traditional means is First Order Guardian, but almost nobody bothers with the…