The new music video from OK Go was shot entirely in zero gravity in a single take. The band has come a long way since their first vid with treadmills. This is insane. And a huge production. I can’t help but think about Battle School whenever I see people flying around in free fall. If disco balls…
The Swarm Volume One of the Second Formic War Mazer Rackham, along with a small group of asteroid miners and special ops soldiers, pulled off the impossible. They stopped the Formic invasion. The scouring of China is over. Earth is safe once more. Or so we thought. A Formic fleet is heading toward Earth, a…
This year I’m honored and thrilled to be a participant at Life, the Universe, & Everything, a longstanding SF and fantasy symposium in Provo, Utah, being held Thursday February 13 through Saturday February 15. Why is a science fiction and fantasy symposium taking place over Valentine’s Day, you ask? I’m not sure, but since my…
I make a brief appearance in the movie adaptation of Ender’s Game. I’m in the climatic scene toward the end. If you haven’t read the book or seen the movie stop reading now as I’m about to describe my scene. Seriously. Spoilers ahead. OK, so I’m in the final battle scene, when Ender takes on…
From Publisher’s Weekly Starred Review. “This prequel to Card’s sci-fi classic Ender’s Game is a rollicking, rollercoaster ride of an adventure. Set more than 100 years before the events of the Ender Quintet, this second part of the trilogy describes the beginning of the Formic war. With a brutal invasion that catches Earth by surprise,…
Earth Afire is the second installment in the Formic Wars novels, which are prequel novels to the Ender Game saga. Long before Battle School was built and Ender Wiggin was born, the Formics came to Earth and nearly wiped us out. In Ender’s Game we hear about events of the war — The Battle of…
