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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Our next H.G. Wells project: Little Wars
As you well know by now, the Ascension Epoch is rooted in public domain stories and characters. The most obvious and probably the most influential on the backstory is H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds, but most of our other stories at least reference other public domain works, if they’re not based on them explicitly. […]
All our books are belong to you… for $0.99!
To properly celebrate the new year, every single Ascension Epoch e-book is now on sale for only $0.99 on Amazon. This special deal will only last until January 13th, so hurry, hurry, hurry! Here’s a link and description for each book: House of Refuge – Justin Agnarsson is stationkeeper and lone crewman of South Atlantic House […]
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 […]
Jaisamp draws Cascade and West Side Siren
Third in our series of awesome commissioned artwork by the equally awesome artists of Sci-Fi Valley Con, Mae Jaisamer, aka Jaisamp, gives us two absolutely beautiful renderings of our femmes fatale. First up, the sexy, but morally questionable, Cascade: Cascade is a member of the GPRA, a metahuman militant group, in After Dark. Aside from […]
Copper Knights gets a facelift
We’ve just released the Third Edition of Copper Knights and Granite Men, and Shell and I have done a lot of work to improve it. Some of you are probably wondering what we could have possibly done to improve a superhero book based on the King in Yellow, with the comedic sensibilities of Army of […]
Free House of Refuge, The Yellow Sign, and other news
I just wanted to remind everyone that House of Refuge is available for free today until Monday on the Kindle. That’s “free” as in beer. It was always “free” as in Linux. If you want to know more about our award-winning short story of life and death on the seasteads of the South Atlantic, you […]
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 […]