April 26, 2015 World Building – One Day at a Time I’m going to continue musing on world-building. A central factor of a person’s or a society’s existence is timekeeping: calendars, the breakdown of the year into seasons, months, weeks, etc. Tolkien dealt with this by using the conceit that he was publishing a translation… Continue reading World Building — One Day at a Time. Resurrected Post.
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Currently in the Book Chute. Resurrected Post.
April 19, 2015 Currently in the Book Chute I am usually reading three or four books at any given point, all at varying points of completion. Call it the book chute. There are books upstream, queuing up to enter the chute, and there are others just emerging from the chute, freshly read. So here’s a… Continue reading Currently in the Book Chute. Resurrected Post.
Maintenance Day on the Web Log.
Regularly scheduled maundering will return next week. This week I’m busy re-uploading more posts that vanished in the mysterious disappearance of my website earlier this year. This will be a slow, ongoing process over the next several months, but I thought I’d put a shoulder into it today. Oh, yes, the obligatory self-promotion: If you… Continue reading Maintenance Day on the Web Log.
Twenty Silver Jakarta’s per Gross Weight of Lembas. Resurrected Post.
April 12, 2015 Twenty Silver Jakatas per Gross Weight of Lembas Building a believable fantasy world is a challenge. There is no precise recipe, but there are ingredients. One of those ingredients is a sense of an economy, the suggestion that in the lands the characters live in, visit, or simply pass through there are… Continue reading Twenty Silver Jakarta’s per Gross Weight of Lembas. Resurrected Post.
Dune: The Spice Still Flows. Resurrected Post.
April 5, 2015 Dune: The Spice Still Flows Is there a work of science fiction that acts as the standard-bearer for the entire genre, the way “The Lord of the Rings” does for fantasy? I’m not sure. The field is crowded with worthy candidates. But I’d nominate Frank Herbert’s “Dune.” It is a sprawling, glorious… Continue reading Dune: The Spice Still Flows. Resurrected Post.
Bernard Cornwell, An Appreciation. Resurrected Post.
March 29, 2015 Bernard Cornwell, An Appreciation Bernard Cornwell is one of the foremost historical novelists working today. He is best known for his “Sharpe’s” novels (“Sharpe’s Company”, “Sharpe’s Tiger”, et. al.,) chronicling the military exploits of the fictional Richard Sharpe during (and prior to) the Napoleonic Wars. “Why then, Ken,” you may ask, “are… Continue reading Bernard Cornwell, An Appreciation. Resurrected Post.
Tardy Web Logger. Sorry. Resurrected Post.
March 23, 2015 Tardy Web Logger. Sorry. Regular posts will resume next week. Yesterday and today were largely consumed by travel and I was without internet access. The usual nonsense will be back soon. In the meantime, here’s a picture of a tree. View more on Ken Lizzi’s website » Like • 0 comments • flag
Kona Brewer’s Festival. Resurrected Post.
March 15, 2015 Kona Brewer’s Festival Aloha! I’m writing today’s post from the lanai of a rented condo in Kona Hawaii, overlooking palm trees, tennis court and ocean. The things I do for you people. Exhausting. Take yesterday for example, when I spent the afternoon tasting beer, oceanside, in the sun and sampling the offerings… Continue reading Kona Brewer’s Festival. Resurrected Post.
My Second Novel, “Under Strange Suns.” Resurrected Post.
March 8, 2015 My Second Novel, “Under Strange Suns” No suspense, no buildup. Here’s the deal: I placed my novel Under Strange Suns with Twilight Times Books.http://www.twilighttimesbooks.com/ There, that’s out of the way. Details, then. It is a science fiction story. Or rather, planetary romance written with a twenty-first century audience in mind. That means,… Continue reading My Second Novel, “Under Strange Suns.” Resurrected Post.