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# Statistics
Favourites: 306; Deviations: 70; Watchers: 17
Watching: 72; Pageviews: 14399; Comments Made: 408; Friends: 72
# Interests
Favorite visual artist: I can't get enough of Billy Tan at the moment. Juan Jose Ryp is awesome, too.Favorite movies: Bram Stoker's Dracula; Dark Knight. No, I will not choose just one!
Favorite TV shows: Firefly was the bomb! Scifi nerds should check out Babylon 5 and Star Trek: DS9; Buffy, the Vampire Slayer was another great Joss Whedon project. And right now I can't wait for more The Walking Dead.
Favorite bands / musical artists: Metallica! Metallica! Korn, too. Rammstein. Oh, and Guano Apes. Bush sometimes.
Favorite books: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy; Antares Dawn by Michael McCollum; A Hymn Before Battle; Zima Blue; Old Man's War; Thirteen Bullets; No Hero by Warren Ellis.A God Somewhere by John Arcudi and Peter Snejbjerg.
Favorite writers: In no particular order: Alastair Reynold, Neal Asher, John Scalzi, Rick Remender, Warren Ellis, H.P. Lovecraft, David Wellington. John Ringo can write some awesomely kinetic action, though.
Favorite games: Remember Starcraft? Good times.
Favorite gaming platform: PC, but not for a great many years.
Tools of the Trade: Word; pen and paper. Not always in that order.
Other Interests: Science fiction. Comic books. History. Writing. Reading. Day trips. Karate. No particular order.
# About me
I live in a part of the World currently known as The West, where modern trends clash with age old tradition. Understand that I love that. History and science fiction are two of my main interests and I always try to combine the two somehow. Past and future always seem at odds. Somewhere in the middle, there we are, caught in the maelstrom. Somewhere in that swirling storm, there I am. Watching. Wondering. Dreaming. Writing.
I rock out to Metallica when the mood strikes me for session of wall-smashing sound. Have you ever heard James Hetfield sing about the glory of the internal combustion engine or what it's like to lose your mind in a sanitarium or try to barter you out of your soul with the Devil's own words? You might like it. I certainly do.
I love (LOVE!) comics, a.k.a. graphic novels. It's a shame I can't draw anything worth the napkin it's doodled on. But hey, if YOU dig the comic format AND you can draw AND you're short on stories, don't be shy. Drop me a line. I've got them up the wazoo.
I have a personal quote that I say to myself each and every time I submit a piece of writing, be it on DeviantArt, or to a magazine or to a publisher. It's not very deep or eloquent but I mean it whole-heartedly. That personal quote is: I hope it doesn't suck.
So take a look around. I won't charge you for browsing. And feel free to comment. I like the conversation.
# Comments
Comments: 33
vigour-mortis [2016-08-31 16:20:09 +0000 UTC]
Welcome to FlashFictionLives ! There is still a bit of time for theΒ August 2016 prompt ! Β
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Weaponised In reply to vigour-mortis [2016-09-01 09:14:06 +0000 UTC]
Alas, I'm late for August. On time for September though.
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Weaponised In reply to NightmareGK13 [2015-01-04 18:28:56 +0000 UTC]
No problem.
Michael
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NightmareGK13 In reply to Weaponised [2015-01-04 22:35:48 +0000 UTC]
Michael Silva?? Da sala de armas do museu?Β
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NightmareGK13 In reply to Weaponised [2015-01-05 21:41:14 +0000 UTC]
ehhhh nΓ£o sabia que escrevias, tenho de me dedicar a ler aqui umas coisitas eheh
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Weaponised In reply to bensen-daniel [2013-02-06 17:50:22 +0000 UTC]
No problem. I read your story on 365tomorrows and I became interested. You've written some fun speculative fiction.
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bensen-daniel In reply to Weaponised [2013-02-06 19:20:33 +0000 UTC]
Wow, seriously? To my knowledge you're the first person to find me on devart from some other source. My evil plan is working!
And thank you. I know I'm not very prolific on 365 Tomorrows, but I'm working on novels
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Weaponised In reply to bensen-daniel [2013-02-06 23:48:09 +0000 UTC]
Totally. I'm MicSil, the (former) SM Stirling fan.
Good luck with your writing. I'll be working on my short fiction.
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bensen-daniel In reply to Weaponised [2013-02-07 05:36:30 +0000 UTC]
Ahh. Yeah, it's too bad he doesn't write more stuff like Crimson Kings.
What turned you off Stirling?
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Weaponised In reply to bensen-daniel [2013-02-07 16:17:15 +0000 UTC]
Mostly that his books have become mostly money making filler and he's not ashamed of it. It's very frustrating to get excited about a new release and then realising that nothing new is added and the story hardly advances. But there are other reasons. I became bored with his characters' fake Gaelic and Wicca worship. And characters actually taking LOTR as if it had actually happened. Other than that, it's a great series but he insists on hammering on things that have become annoying.
I didn't read Crimson Kings but I did read the Nantucket series. I really enjoyed it.
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bensen-daniel In reply to Weaponised [2013-02-08 06:06:49 +0000 UTC]
>>I became bored with his characters' fake Gaelic and Wicca worship. And characters actually taking LOTR as if it had actually happened. <<
I agree. That was stupid. Also I happen to like living in a post-industrial, post-Enlightenment world, and I think going back to the age of thumb-screws and child mortality would be a terrible tragedy. And I got the impression that Stirling doesn't agree.
But, Court of the Crimson Kings and Sky People are set in (more or less) Edgar Rice Burrough's Barsoom universe, in which American and Soviet probes found humans living on Mars and Venus. Lots of fun.
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Weaponised In reply to bensen-daniel [2013-02-08 21:08:23 +0000 UTC]
Not so. Stirling has said in interviews that he'd be toast if the Change actually happened on account of his poor health record and lack of manual skills. It'd be a simpler (mostly boring and laborious) life for common people and I'd miss the Internet but it'd be fun to visit. I count the books as a positive influence in my writing despite the negative points which are examples of things to avoid (Too much time wasted on religious exposition, language building, writing out accents at the expense of furthering the narrative).
I've read excerpts. I'll definitely look into those books when I can. I recommend Island in the Sea of Time and it's two sequels. He did an excellent job with those.
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bensen-daniel In reply to Weaponised [2013-02-09 06:14:08 +0000 UTC]
I read Island in the Sea of Time and liked it.
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Weaponised In reply to FirstSarge [2012-04-19 18:14:48 +0000 UTC]
Never read a word of his. I rock out to John Ringo though.
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FirstSarge In reply to Weaponised [2012-04-21 16:13:57 +0000 UTC]
Something in what you said reminded me of something from one of his books.
I am not familiar with John Ringo as a writer, just as one of the primary instigators at the "OK" corral shoot out. Cowboy and SciFi writer. I am impressed. I will have to look him up.
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Weaponised In reply to FirstSarge [2012-04-26 20:25:58 +0000 UTC]
Ha! I think you be off by a hundred years or so there! Although that would be cool. I think you'd like Ringo. Lots of powered armor and artillery and an in depth look at military culture by an author who was in the Army for a considerable amount of time. He can get a bit heavy in acronyms though.
I'll have to look into Card's work. I think I have Ender's Game floating around somewhere.
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FirstSarge In reply to Weaponised [2012-04-27 18:50:03 +0000 UTC]
Enders game is great... except for the end. It gets preachy wierd as if Orsen is thinking about going Hubbard.
I stopped writing military stuff for a while. I need to find that balance of Tech an jargon without distancing the reader.
Our library sells old books for a quarter a piece. When The clear out the SciFi section, I buy everything. I have boxes of military SciFi which I find unreadable for just these problems.
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Weaponised In reply to FirstSarge [2012-05-08 15:38:21 +0000 UTC]
You should try Old Man's War by John Scalzi. He's very good at witty banter. It feels like I'm reading quips out of Vaudeville at times. There's a running joke or two and a holier-than-thou peacenik gets turned into goo.
Ever read Dark Dominion? It's from the 50's I think. The science is more or less hard but the characters are made of cardboard except for the women who faint at the slightest bit of adversity. I got it from an old bookstore that was clearing out.
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FirstSarge In reply to Weaponised [2012-05-09 14:46:10 +0000 UTC]
I love classic SciFi. I don't know if you read my stories set on Mars and Venus, but I took heavily from the old stuff.
I was criticized by people who had to point out that Venus wasn't a jungle, and well... obviously not regular readers of 365 or SciFi in general.
I will look those stories up.
I disagree with the idea of two dimensional characters though. Sure, they were written that way by the pioneers of our field, but they explode in my mind. As I read, I find myself making up back stories, not intentionally of course, it just flows.
I admit to being a geek. I'd rather read, though I do find that a careful dose of television, like the occasional glass of red wine or bottle of vodka is a good thing.
Thanks for the recommendations.
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Weaponised In reply to FirstSarge [2012-05-17 01:06:15 +0000 UTC]
Oh, sure. I can tell your Venus stories are Vietnam inspired. Would you say your Barsoom stories are more Irafghan in terms of real world parallels? Or do you not make those dichotomies on purpose?
What can you do? Some people can't grasp the concept of suspension of disbelief.
On classic sci-fi, take Starship Troopers for example. The characters are dry with the protagonist a bit less so. The richness of the writing is where Heinlein narrates the backstory to the world Johnnie Rico lives in. The concepts about personal responsibility to defend and maintain society and actually earning the right to participate in the political process makes you go back with a highlight pen. It's moments like those where the fathers of modern sci-fi really shine.
I own up to being a geek. I wear the badge proudly. Sci-fi, history, comics. These are my main intellectual pursuits. I have no time for televised sports.
Alas, the History Channel has become the Moronic Channel. The last time I flipped to it some idiot was cutting things open with a circular saw to see what was inside. And that was the entire premise of the show! I was so disgusted, I haven't turned the TV on in three days.
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Rafellin [2012-02-05 17:41:13 +0000 UTC]
Thank you for the watch.
Heavy metal, comics & sci-fi? More of us needed in the world
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jandewitt [2011-07-12 09:56:17 +0000 UTC]
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Weaponised In reply to jandewitt [2011-07-12 12:45:24 +0000 UTC]
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