The Europan Deception is now available from Amazon! It's a first-in-series hard sci-fi thriller for fans of The Expanse looking for a fast-paced espionage story about an ancient conspiracy looking to destabilize the galaxy. Link below.

Love Samantha Carter, but Teyla is pretty great too.

The group chat with my dad and brother 😆

Can't even get away from the space shuttle in my kids' Cat in the Hat book....

I did this and definitely recommend it

USAFA grad btw

RT @BradRTorgersen: I think a lot of this is because the convenient paperback has all but died. Once upon a time men would keep a technothr…

ALERT: A United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after takeoff on the Edwards airfield at 11:20 a.m. Emergency crews immediately responded to the scene and the situation is ongoing. More information will be provided as it becomes available.

Why Stargate is Important to Me This isn't necessarily a #savestargate post. I don't trust Amazon Prime to not totally drop the ball, Rings of Power and Wheel of Time are both basically unwatchable. But I don't want the franchise to die, or even worse, be rebooted, because it means a lot to me - probably more than any other media outside of Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan books. I was never a big TV guy, never was, still am not. I didn't watch much TV as a kid outside of Magic School Bus and Thomas the Tank Engine...and sports. Tons of sports. That was what my family watched, Phillies games and Eagles games and whatnot, all of us crowded around the 32" RCA TV in the living room in Glenmoore. But sometimes my dad would throw on a TV show, usually sci-fi. I saw plenty of Star Trek: The Next Generation or DS9 or Babylon 5 episodes when I was too young to appreciate them fully. But the sense of scale and adventure really captured me, same with the Star Wars original trilogy. Sci-fi was my thing. And then, during a family trip to California one summer, I stayed up late with my dad and caught the back half of a Stargate SG-1 episode. It was Cor-Ai, from the first season, where Teal'c is sentenced to death by a planet that he enslaved while he was in service to Apophis yet ends up saving the day at the end. And I was *hooked* - the serpent guards, cool military gear, the banter between the SG-1 team, it just grabbed me and never let go. I was maybe 9 or 10 but Stargate just blew me away. I had just seen the first Indiana Jones movie and the mix of ancient civilizations and technology and hidden secrets just hit every note for me. It's like a technothriller with how realistic they had the military aspects and a sci-fi movie with all of the alien species and it's like it was created in a lab to be the perfect setting and story for me. After coming back from California, my dad rented the movie from Blockbuster (against my mom's direction!) and my younger brother & I watched it with him. And then I didn't see any more episodes for a while - we didn't have Showtime. But then after the Eagles season was over that winter, the local Fox affiliate started playing Stargate SG-1 in syndication *in that exact same time slot*, 1 PM Eastern. I think it was Season 4 or 5. And then when it switched to the Sci-Fi channel, my Friday nights were spent watching SG-1 and later Atlantis with my dad and brother (and occasionally my mom or one of my sisters) and my brother and I caught up on all of the episodes we missed during marathons while we were on school breaks or the summer. It was the show we all liked. Looking at me now, it's obvious the impact it had on me. I went to the Air Force Academy (like Samantha Carter!) and spent a decade in the Air Force and Space Force. If there was a secret Stargate program, I would have been a part of it - unfortunately, there's not! But I still work in the space sector and would love to see my kids walk on another planet, either by going there directly or through a wormhole. And there's plenty of secrets lurking behind black-budget compartments... I still have never been hooked by a TV show quite like Stargate SG-1. I love Babylon 5, The Expanse, the 80s/90s Star Treks, but Stargate is my favorite. I still quote it all of the time when I talk with my brother and dad, I make Goa'uld references at work, and I own the whole series on DVD - my wife and I have watched it together a couple of times. It's just the perfect show, and it's been a huge influence on my own writing. I am the primary audience for the revival, and that's why I'm so frustrated that it got canned. I don't want a reboot, I want to know how the Stargate program handles the modern era - how they keep it secret, what new threats are out there, will they ever resolve the Universe storyline. What warms my heart though is how many fellow Stargate fans are out there. I'm not a part of any "community," I think that whole thing is stupid, but it seems like other people have had a similar experience to me with respect to the show. And it shows the divide between Hollywood and the audience - we want shows like Stargate SG-1, with a team of competent protagonists, a grounded, consistent setting, terrific acting, and completely unforced diversity both amongst the humans and aliens. There's a huge demand signal out there. But Hollywood doesn't want the U.S. military to be the good guys, to show humanity win against overwhelming odds, and seem to want to send a message rather than earn my hard-earned dollar. I think there's a huge audience for a Stargate revival or a show that hits the same notes, and it's unfortunate that the latest iteration ended the way that it did.

Lots of Beserker DNA in Revelation Space, Mass Effect...and Stargate SG-1 😃

Mickey from hell

Canticle for Leibowitz is so good I can't believe I waited so long to read it. America really IS Rome and Sci-Fi is the true American genre

Mission rehearsal with a ground system that doesn't work so this is going to be an absolute blast of a week...

And they say humanoid is the most scalable robotic form factor

Halo was the GWOT generation’s Top Gun.

Where do you want me to start? TES III:Morrowind Halo 1 & 2 KOTOR I & 2 Final Fantasy VI-X Counter-Strike Battlefield 2 Jade Empire Baldur's Gate I&II Deus Ex & IW Half Life 1 & 2 Kingdom Hearts Ace Combat 04 Thi3f Age of Empires II Myst Jedi Outcast Jedi Academy TIE Fighter

Nanobubblers sound like something straight out of a sci-fi novel

Star Wars Andor fans are, at heart, perpetual tweenage adolescents who are embarrassed at still liking a kid’s property, want to be treated like Serious Intellectuals, and so they turn to the Shadow the Hedgehog version of the story that’s clearly embarrassed of its origins.

Letting Claude code for me while I take my kids to the pool...working on another game idea