If nothing else, HBO’s Westworld keeps you thinking. It’s like a fascinating puzzle, and trying to solve its myriad of mysteries has become the most fun I’ve had since LOST was in its prime. This show’s questions have had me rewatching each episode, and I must admit now that the scenes with William and Logan…
Time is scarce this week, but with episode three of Westworld in the rear view mirror, I thought I’d touch on three theories about the show that are whirling around the web. Note, while these are just theories, they could become *SPOILERS* if any prove to be true. Who Is The Man in Black? One…
HBO’s Westworld is turning out to be everything I’d hoped for and more – a multilayered story that is vintage Michael Crichton with a little J.J. Abrams mixed in for good measure. The show’s creators, Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, are killing it, and the show’s dialogue is one reason why. Here are just a…
HBO’s Westworld premiered last Sunday, ending our languishment in the TV wasteland that has existed since the season’s end of Outlander and Game of Thrones. What HBO has delivered is vintage Michael Crichton, and more. There’s even a biblical element to it, if I’m not mistaken. Westworld is based on a 1973 movie written by…
I recently finished Dead Man’s Reach by D.B. Jackson, the fourth book in his Thieftaker series. The book turned out to be another excellent installment in Jackson’s historical fantasy tale set in Colonial Boston. Here’s my review. Dead Man’s Reach presents another mystery for Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker whose job involves hunting down thieves and…
I’ve written a lot about the TV wasteland we’ve lived in since the season finale of Game of Thrones. Seriously, an entire summer has gone by and what have we had? The Olympics? (Okay, we did have The Night Of, which was awesome, but not the right genre for this blog). So, on October 2nd,…
As I work on editing the sequel, the Kindle version of Enoch’s Device is going on sale for the next seven days. If you’ve read the novel and enjoyed it, now is a perfect time to tell a friend! Here’s what the book is about: Nearly a thousand years after the birth of Christ, when all Europe fears that…
I’ve been off the blog for twelve whole days. I’ve never been away for that long, and here’s why, I suppose … No, I haven’t been sailing near the Rock of Gibraltar . . . For one, I’ve realized I tend to blog more these days about historical or fantasy related television shows like Game…
Isn’t this Throwback Thursday? In honor of this fairly recent tradition, I’m re-posting my 2012 review of one of the greatest works of epic fiction I’ve read in a long, long time . . . For several years now, I’ve been interested in medieval Spain, and about a quarter of my first novel takes place in…
I’m reaching into the archives once again while slogging through the summer doldrums. But this one reminded me how much I loved HBO’s Rome . . . My wife and I recently finished HBO’s Rome in advance of a trip to Italy we’ll be taking this summer (which, thankfully, will allow for some on-site research for the sequel…
Every once in a while I’ll reread one of my favorite novels for inspiration, and this summer that read was The Archer’s Tale by Bernard Cornwell. It reminded me how much I loved his Grail Quest series, and how pieces of it helped inspire my first novel, Enoch’s Device. I consider The Archer’s Tale to be a…