In today’s #SaturdayScenes, Pete Halstein, aka Bulwark, the accidental hero of our superhero occult adventure novel Copper Knights and Granite Men, receives a challenge from an unexpected corner: his television! “Hey, this is real life. It ain’t like professional wrestling where it’s all scripted and nobody’s worried about getting hurt, you know. And that ain’t […]
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Works in Progress in the Ascension Epoch
It’s the middle of the year, and we thought you, our readers, would enjoy some insight into our works in progress as of today. And I do mean works in progress — Mike and I have a couple different burners going, with all the best fiction we can offer simmering. So here’s what we have […]
It’s not a dystopia!
Imagine Arnold Schwarzenegger from Kindergarten Cop screaming the title of this post and you get a sense of how I feel whenever someone describes one of the Ascension Epoch stories, or the setting itself, as dystopian. Now don’t misunderstand me. There’s nothing inherently wrong with dystopian fiction and I don’t take it as an insult. […]
The Spiritualist Case Against Capital Punishment
On #AnnotatedTuesdays, we will share a quoted passage from some public domain source that has informed the Ascension Epoch universe, followed by commentary on how we used it. Reading the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is one of the small joys of my life, and it seems a great many people feel the same […]
Shining Worlds in Splendor: The Empyrean and the War in Heaven
In this final installment in a three-part series investigating what the inhabitants of the Ascension Epoch universe actually know about the secret history and strange phenomenon of their world, we we examine what is generally known about the myriad worlds of the Empyrean and the aeons-long celestial war that holds the earth under siege. –Go […]
OnlineBookClub.org reviews “Copper Knights and Granite Men”
Following on the heels of the review of After Dark, OnlineBookClub.org also reviewed Copper Knights and Granite Men. Here are some of the highlights: It starts off sounding like some kind of groan-worthy joke – three superheroes walk into a museum – but the result is anything but terrible. Any adults who are fans of […]