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None. If it isn't in an ebook format, I'm not buying it.

There's no way to tell how society could change as our needs or wants for sex change... but SF is the perfect place to explore the possibilities, not to sweep them under the rug. I've done an okay job of writing sex scenes, but it can be a work in progress. Still... it's great work when you...

I wasn't impressed with the critters episode at all. The entire story was crazy-stupid IMO, from the guy who puts on antique shoes to go running in bear-spider-filled forests, to the giant bug-mama at the end. And pretty much everything in-between. I want to give Defiance time to breathe...

The GRRM quote reminds me of his Wild Cards series, which wouldn't be a quarter the series it is if not for the sex, as fun, as a weapon and as a danger. I agree, sex is a part of life, and if you're telling a story in which sex is a significant part, you shouldn't hide it away.

Sometimes you never know what will change, just because a new design becomes popular with the public (sometimes despite being less efficient, as a form of social protest or rebellion, or another aesthetic); if it stays popular long enough, it becomes the norm. Fashion is a particularly good...

Writers often have to balance the desire to write a future story with the fear of losing their audiences in an almost inconceivable world of strange technology. That's why a great deal of future stories use very recognizable, often deliberately romantic or dramatic imagery that doesn't make a...

Other than an occasional Harry Dresden book, I read almost exclusively SF. (I guess this isn't the place to debate the qualifiers.)

Most new technologies are used wildly upon first being developed... until people figure out the most effective use of it, and "usage" becomes "art." We're still so early in the world of computer-generated imagery that we're seeing more of the "thousand ships" effects and not enough of, say, the...

You're not kidding: NBC's first attempt at Childhood's End, back in the seventies, gave us the original V. I think this movie can be great if filmed as-is: The surprise reveal of the Overlord's nature is only half the surprise of the story, and the only one most people who've never read the...

Last year I went to a showing of Metropolis that was billed as being performed with a live musical accompaniment. The "band" was the Alloy Orchestra, a group of (I believe) four musicians playing on, well, pretty much junk. Although Alloy created an interesting score, and were well-played, in...

The two silent features I can watch anytime: Metropolis; and The General. I love Metropolis for its being the stylistic pioneer of science fiction films: The impressionist sets, costumes and styles, imaginative cinematography, bold and thematic orchestral score and not-quite-three-dimensional...

If they intended to do that, they could have saved themselves time and money and brought back Eureka. That plot would work on occasion, but I agree, it would get tiring fast if done constantly. Hopefully, Nolan will more often be playing fly-on-the-wall, being the viewer's eyes into what...

It's true the first episode wasn't impressive... but how many of us remember the first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation? If I'd been a TV exec, I never would've let that piece of junk out of the vault! But look what we got. Defiance's opening ep was better than that. So I'm...

Sarcology is now available at Steven Lyle Jordan Books' site, Amazon and Barnes & Noble. (There is a $1.00 discount when you buy from Steven Lyle Jordan's site.)

I haven't decided how I really feel about the move (admittedly, I'm trying very hard not to care)... but I am pretty sure that it won't benefit your average independent authors much, if at all. I don't expect indie authors to gain a greater voice or opportunities to get noticed by the public...

Selling. That's it. I produce a great book, do everything I can to promote it (which isn't much, given the industry's ability to block newbies and independents, and readers' assumption that Independent=Suckage), and it falls into a black hole within seconds of my publishing it. If anything...

Sarcology, the sixteenth novel by Steven Lyle Jordan, was released today on the Steven Lyle Jordan Books site. The novel is also available in Amazon’s Kindle store and Barnes & Noble’s Nook store. Sarcology, on the surface a detective adventure set in Atlanta of 2042, presents a robot with a...

I think you can say that about just about any genre, not just SF. But SF has historically shied away from serious sexual content, or utilized the "kiss kiss, cut to morning" method, because most publishers assumed the major audience of SF was kids. As SF has grown up and evolved, I see no...

Being a card-carrying member of the multi-media generation, I find that I most enjoy stories that I can picture running on TV, movies or comic books in one form or another: Stories whose descriptions are rich but natural enough to easily imagine how they could be illustrated or filmed...

I think most scientists that believe we will achieve either immortality or a "post-scarcity" economy within 1-2 generations are being overly optimistic and ignoring the realities of the modern world. Despite medical science's advances, there are many areas of life extension research that are...