I’ve been fooling around with an AI video generator. That’s the long and short of it. Enjoy!
Aieee!
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The roar of the greasepaint, the smell of the crowd
One thing you can always count on seeing in a Sci-Fi action show is flying objects. Architecture is no exception, and why would it be? The day after anti-gravity is developed, somebody will start building a flying house.
I built my first one in The Illusion of Gravity. According to the story’s hero Rivan Saraf, “The only large shapes Iron Arrow could form in those days were cylinders and spheres. So that’s what you got when you ordered a flying house — a flattened tube fused to a flattened sphere.”
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Notes and Treats As a printable tabulated form or checklist, the Manuscript Assessment Criteria presented by SoundEagle🦅 below can assist writers in evaluating and inspecting their own works (either by themselves or with a group of readers) before submitting their manuscripts to publishers, and also during successive edits after the previous submission(s) and before the […]
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Reblogged from SoundEagle. Insightful!
Run, robot, run!
Our first import to Unreal Engine 5.4 from Blender 4.1.
Small steps. You get that, right?
Hacked!
On October 16, an unknown person registered an Internet domain associated with a business I once owned, activated an obsolete email address, and used the credential to destroy my Facebook accounts.
What a shock that was and, as you can imagine, Facebook doesn’t seem to care.
So, I’m off Facebook, perhaps permanently.
Just for fun, imagining a world in which you cared about what I’m up to on a daily basis, where would you like to find a record of that? Instagram? TikTok? YouTube? Elsewhere?
In the meantime, find me on X at @johndyerwrites
Image by MV Studio MV from Pixabay
Ship in a Bottle
It’s anyone’s guess how far this project will go. It could turn out to be a task better left uncompleted, at which point a loss of interest will be prudent. But, in the meantime, construction of my Loyal House 3D model is entering its third year and progress is being made.
I have not had my nose to the grindstone. The Blender file has languished since production of cover art for Ghosts of Ancient Vidura.
But, with an unfinished novel advancing toward publication, an author’s thoughts naturally turn to matters of self-promotion. One-minute video clips. Drama. Suspense. Spectacle. Better, perhaps, than the last time I tried it.
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A first draft book description for Maroli Tango. Comments welcome.
Sometimes, no matter what’s going on, you have to make it about you.
Earth, 2026 — an alien civilization’s backwater territory; an epicenter of impending catastrophe. In fifteen years, a solar event will scorch the planet. Coming up after that, an ice age looms. Two million light years away, the Unseen have demonstrated the means to settle a grudge.
United States President Carmen Benequista is tired of dealing with it. Embattled, worn out, she is visited in a dream. Her deceased husband says, “Find someone to share your life while it can still make a difference.”
It’s not a rocket science proposition. Her steady companion, Space Mafia kingpin Brandon Lopez, 15 years her junior, is waiting for a signal.
Meanwhile, first-contact survivor Mason Fowlkes, soon to be 16, is growing up fast as an apprentice Ship’s Mechanic aboard the Anye migration vessel Anuraga. The work life is great; the home life not so much.
French Air Force lieutenant Marie Jourdaine is on the rebound after a brief stint as the world’s youngest female fighter pilot. Things are kind of working out, and kind of not.
Right there in the middle is a legion of consciousness-elevated maroli labor appliances, a product of ancient Anye technology, monstrous in appearance, sweet of disposition, intent on discovering their place in the universe.
It’s been a bumpy ride, fraught with challenges. Maybe it’s time for our heroes to take care of themselves.
Read This First
Here’s the deal — you might want to read The Illusion of Gravity first because it’s the first volume of a series.
Alternatively, you can start with one of the other books and backtrack later to find out what you missed. There’s no penalty.
Literary Science Fiction, focused on story, not just space ships and ray guns. Entertaining. Immersive. Ambitious. Value-positive. Fun. Written for grown-ups. Suitable for young adults. The opposite of dark, smutty, ugly, pessimistic.
Amazon makes it easy to find out if a book is something you want to read. Go to the Kindle listing. Click below the cover art on the ‘Read Sample’ button. Give it a few pages. You’ll know soon enough.
The Illusion of Gravity can be found here. Discover my catalog here. Check out my blog for other essays. Thanks for reading. We need you.
Pop Culture Archeology
The Rikki in question was author Rikki Ducornet, born Erica DeGre, 1943. She was an acquaintance, perhaps, of Donald Fagen during his stint at Bard College in the late 1960s. Not sure about whether she actually knew him or not. She owned up to the reference in a 1998 interview, but I found out what I wanted to know from the synopsis, so there you have it.
At least I don’t have to use the word ‘allegedly’.
So, the lady is 5 years older than the musician. That’s all I can tell you. Look it up if you’re curiouser than I.
Anyway, I investigated these facts after watching the Low Darts perform a cover of ‘My Old School’ on YouTube. They’re great. You should check them out.
Continue reading “Pop Culture Archeology”Self-Referencing
Not intentionally. It just happened. Another teaser from Maroli Tango.
Chasm City, Anchor Freehold, Eeka
Chasm City was named for a deep rift in the planet’s mantle, beyond which lay a torn-up wasteland, thought by experts to have suffered a natural calamity in the distant past, dismissing an ancient oral history describing laser bombardment from outer space
A third of the city was built upon an impossibly massive bridge spanning the chasm, promoted by the architect as a platform for an airborne community, someday, when anti-gravity was invented.
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