by G.L. Breedon | Jan 7, 2014 | Fantasy, Film, Future, Science Fiction, Space
I was watching the mid-season finale of The Walking Dead this week and it got me to thinking about why I liked the show. I’ve never been very interested in zombie stories. They simply don’t appeal to me very much. I enjoyed The Night of the Living Dead...
by G.L. Breedon | Dec 12, 2012 | Fantasy, Film, Ideas, Science Fiction, Writing-Craft
image source: kryptonradio.com I’ve been thinking for a while about the redundancy factor in film and television, especially where sci-fi is concerned. Hollywood has always had an addiction to remakes (now called reboots to sound more modern I suppose). How...
by G.L. Breedon | Jun 1, 2012 | Books, Fantasy, Young Sorcerer's Guild
Been a while since I have had the time to blog regularly. I’ve been crazy busy at the day job and trying to finish everything to release Summer’s Cauldron, book 2 in the Young Sorcerers Guild series. Summer’s Cauldron is finally done and for sale as an ebook at all...
by G.L. Breedon | Apr 3, 2012 | Fantasy, Film, Science Fiction, TV, Writing-Craft
Yesterday I was listening to a podcast about last weeks crop of sci-fi and fantasy by Darren Franich and Jeff Jensen and one of them mentioned in passing that George R.R. Martin hated the ending of Lost. I hadn’t heard that before, so I did a little poking around and...
by G.L. Breedon | Feb 16, 2012 | Fantasy, Wizard of Time, Writing-Craft
A few weeks ago I came across Brandon Sanderson’s First and Second Laws (of magic) at his blog and they sparked a great deal of thinking. The two laws are: Sanderson’s First Law of Magics: An author’s ability to solve conflict with magic is DIRECTLY...
by G.L. Breedon | Jan 31, 2012 | Fantasy, Philosophy, Science, Science Fiction
Last week there was a great interview in The Atlantic with Professor Tim Maudlin, who teaches the philosophy of physics at New York University. It’s a really interesting interview and it got me to thinking a number of things all at once. The first thing it brought...
