I have a new novella coming out soon! It’s titled The Fae Dealings and is a prequel to my Dragon-Myth Cycle novels: Enoch’s Device and The Key to the Abyss. The Fae Dealings is set a little more than 200 years before Enoch’s Device, during the reign of Charlemagne. The book will launch next month,…
The Season 3 finale of Westworld, titled “Crisis Theory,” went places that few people expected. Neither of my predicted big twists came true. And the ending left enormous questions for the next season of Westworld. Here are my final thoughts on what turned out to be a wild, mindblowing ride. The Truth About Serac Last…
Season 3’s penultimate episode, titled “Passed Pawn,” gave us much more insight into Delores’ plan on Westworld and may have set up a huge twist for the season finale. Also, it looks like a few of my predictions have come true, at least as far as Maeve is concerned, and I was very close to…
After the latest episode, titled “Decoherence,” it looks like the battle lines have been drawn on Westworld. Maeve’s Back In The Matrix Do you remember how Neo and Morpheus had those training simulations to teach themselves how to fight like superheroes in the Matrix? Well, that’s precisely how Serac is using his simulation for Maeve…
The fifth episode of Season 3, titled “Genre,” revealed a lot about chaos theory on Westworld. The Outlier As I’ve mentioned before, Michael Crichton’s Westworld was the precursor to his bestselling novel Jurassic Park. Both were based on chaos theory — a notion that no matter how one tries to control a complex system, there…
Season 3 of Westworld hit its midpoint with last Sunday’s episode, titled “Mother of Exiles.” It was the season’s best episode yet, and it ended with a mind-blowing twist. Serac’s Motives Before getting to the episode’s big reveal (and hereon, * SPOILERS * abound), the “Mother of Exiles” gave us more insight into Serac’s motives….
The third episode of Season 3 of Westworld, titled “Absence of Field,” left Maeve and Bernard’s story for a look inside Charlotte Hale’s head — and gave us some huge clues about Delores’ plans, and Serac’s too. Who’s Inside Charlotte’s Head? The episode opened with Delores reanimating the host version of Charlotte Hale. One of…
The latest episode of Westworld, titled “The Winter Line,” was all about Maeve. She’s long been my favorite character on the show, so I loved this one. And while we don’t learn too many new facts, the plot thickens in Westworld by the episode’s end. Maeve and The Matrix Last week, one of the characters…
In times like these, it’s good to have something to take our minds off current events. Fortunately, Season 3 of Westworld is a wonderful diversion, at least for me. Westworld has always offered up puzzle-like plots, and this season has already given us plenty of mysteries to be solved. Here are my thoughts on several…
Saint Patrick’s Day is one of my all-time favorite holidays, but this year, the parties have been canceled as we do our part to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Times like this are also a reminder that the real story of Saint Patrick is not about drinking and revelry. It’s the story about a man…
George R.R. Martin based A Games of Thrones on the Wars of the Roses, history’s real game of thrones. It was the Yorks versus the Lancasters, instead of the Starks versus the Lannisters, in a conflict over the English crown. And if you’re interested in this historical game of thrones, Conn Iggulden brings another chapter to life…