Okay, the nominations are all in so here they are! Vote now. Votes must be in by 5pm BST Monday 27th April. Take your time and choose wisely I’LL BE BACK!
3 Votes Each!
Vote! Which is the Best Robot in Scifi?
Author: lazloferran
Would fiction subscription delivery work?
I wrote about the idea of subscribers in my 2010 scifi book Too Bright the Sun. In the story, Army officers during wartime were required to create video podcasts for subscribers, as a way of raising income for the army. Somebody in the Tom Winton Authors Helping Authors group on Facebook recently posted an idea of a group of writers offering a subscription deal to read a chapter of their work each week in magazine form.
While the subscription services idea sounded great to me at first, I spent some time thinking on it and thought that while it is probably fine for non-creative industries and occupations like soldiering and construction, there are potential problems for creative industries.
The idea of publishing a chapter a week sounds great. I am very productive and just published 4 novels in 8 weeks but even I need a break now and then. I don’t foresee me doing anything but editing for the next few months (yes I have 2 more completed works). Nobody is going to want to subscribe to that! I think such a service would have to be either pay-as-you-go or you would need a large number of writers to guarantee that there is always content and if you did that, you would need admin staff running the thing, hence putting up the overheads. Continue reading “Would fiction subscription delivery work?”
Looking for Freelance thriller/scifi Editor?
Just a friendly reminded to all you authors out there that I still edit books. Check my Editing Services page for my portfolio and charges. I look forward to hearing from any writers that need a good editor.
Testimony on Lazlo’s editing work by author Amit Bobrov:
“Lazlo’s the best editor I’ve worked with, and I’ve worked with a few. He took an already successful novel and found every imaginable flaw, corrected dialogues, fixed my grammar and altered key scenes to make them more exciting. He’s a fountain of creativity and knowledge. When I showed my Publisher his version of my novel they were speechless and this was a novel that three previous editor worked on.”
The Best Robot in Scifi? Vote!
Nominate your best robot in a scifi book or film with a comment so I can add it. Mention the film or book too in case we haven’t heard of the robot. In 2 weeks, we will vote!
Who could forget the menace of Robert Patrick as the T1000 advanced prototype in Terminator 2 or the lovable R2D2 in Star Wars. Then there was Robby, the not quite so innocuous robot in Forbidden Planet, one of the best early scifi films.
But for me, the scariest was the Cybermen in Doctor Who. Sometimes it is the tiniest detail that makes a robot effective in a story and for me, I think the Cybermen’s tiny and inexpressive slot-mouth that seemed most strange. It had me hiding behind the sofa!
The nomination can include cyborgs and androids. Continue reading “The Best Robot in Scifi? Vote!”
£500? New Ordo Lupus prequel is puzzle!
Vampire – Find my Grave
Ordo Lupus III is complete and goes to publishing agents in a few weeks time. While the process of bringing this to publication goes on, I wanted to give fans of the Ordo Lupus series something to keep them going so here it is: Vampire – Find my Grave.
I would like to introduce you to Zosimyache, vampire and one of the new stars in Ordo Lupus III. He begins the tale of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester in the 1600s, the notorious poet and libertine, who has died and left us a small part of his treasure.
If you download the eBook (currently only FREE on Smashwords but hopefully soon on Amazon) you will have two of the clues to finding it! Solve them and you only have to wait for Ordo Lupus III to solve the mystery and win £500!
If vampire sex is your thing, this is for you!
Vampire – Find my Grave FREE! on Amazon
Vampire – Find my Grave FREE! on Books2Read
Vampire – Find my Grave FREE! on Google Play
Free eBook of Worlds Like Dust – Part 2?
Watch the video trailer. Best comment wins free eBook!
My new book Worlds Like Dust – Part 2 – the climax of the Iron Series is out NOW!
Jake Nanden faces his biggest challenge yet, one that threatens to overwhelm him and eclipse his soul!
Will Jake Nanden’s Soul Survive Battle for Earth?
Well, the day has finally arrived. The final installment of the Iron Series is here!
Remember this? Now I can reveal the identity of the object. Below is the cover of Worlds Like Dust – Part 1. The ship with the yellow stripes in the background is the giant and formidably armed Ischian Battleship, the Lu-kshîa.
The climax of the series is called Worlds Like Dust and is published in 2 parts. The first part is published today:
Worlds Like Dust – Part 1 on Amazon
And the paperback will be available for the introductory price of $9.49 for just two weeks on Amazon.
Worlds Like Dust – Part 2 will be published shortly.
Below is the book blurb for Part 1 and below that is the book trailer video. I hope you buy a copy and let me know how you like it!
Domes now cover Earth’s big cities and soon a force field will trap Earth inside!
The jackal-headed Ischians are here! When General Jake Nanden retired from the USAC, he could never have guessed that his greatest battle was still to come. Continue reading “Will Jake Nanden’s Soul Survive Battle for Earth?”
Trailer for Running (The Alien in the Mirror)
Running (The Alien in the Mirror is the FREE prequel to the Iron Series.
You can get Running (The Alien in the Mirror) FREE on Amazon: http://bit.ly/glrunning
Books2Read: https://books2read.com/lazloferran
It’s also available on Google Play, iTunes, Scribd, and many other book websites.
Watch this space on Friday for a BIG announcement.
I hope you like my new video. Let me know what you think.
Continue reading “Trailer for Running (The Alien in the Mirror)”
Uk Election Parties Treat Worlds Like Dust
Part 2 of my 2015 Election Wacky Races. Part 1 is here.
This week, with Ed Millipede, amazingly, one point in the lead, the four front-runners take a pit stop and take part in Question Time.
Question Time with Jonathan Dimbleby this week is from King’s College Hospital London and we are discussing the way the NHS has changed under the present Conservative Government; in particular how cuts are affecting the health of patients. We are very lucky to have with us all the current main four Party leaders.
And first I would like to go to David Caravan and ask him whether he thinks his Party’s cuts have gone too far.
David Caravan: Actually, no, I don’t think they have. While I do see, of course, that the tightening of our medical belts – or is that gastric belts, ha! ha! – might represent a challenge to the 20 million odd OAPs, who we are planning to ban from the NHS – oo sorry, George told me not to tell you that – I don’t think for most hard-working people with two legs and two arms, it is a problem. You can still cut off the head of the beast, the NHS beast, and have it function normally. In fact, that is half the problem. It is like a Cerberus. You just can’t kill it! In fact, I think there might be an argument, if the research were done and if it proved feasible, and if trials on children are successful, that we might envisage a situation where working people – patients – might actually not need their heads any more, as such. (Holds his hands up). Now, I know what you are thinking. But a simple medical procedure to painlessly remove the said thinking container would be simple, cheap and effective. There would no longer be a need to feed patients, and the Workers – sorry the hard-workers of this Country, won’t need to think anymore. Indeed, they won’t be able to. This will make Politics and Ruling the Country a whole lot simpler. Continue reading “Uk Election Parties Treat Worlds Like Dust”
Film Review: Metropolis – Fritz lang (1922)
I watched this movie for the first time last night. Mine was the restored length of roughly 170 minutes. In case you don’t know, most of this was thought be lost until a rather badly damaged 16mm version was found in Buenos Aires in 2008.
The film is obviously showing it’s age so if you want a up-to-date sci-fi epic, try something else. But for it’s time, it has some very strong iconography; the eponymous Metropolis of endless sky-scrapers, surrounded by snaking layer upon layer of grid-locked motorways and railways; the robot-woman, Maria; the towering machines of the underworld; and the epic chiaroscuro street scenes reminiscent of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.
The story is basically about the uprising of Workers, who live in a city far below Metropolis, some time in the future. The ruler of the City lost his wife, when she gave birth to his son, who has grown into an athletic star of the elite class. But the ruler has no idea that his son is about to rebel and take up the cause of the Workers. Meanwhile, a genius inventor has found a way to create androids in any likeness and the ruler wants one made to look like his long-dead wife. Or at least, that was my take. Little does he know that not only is the inventor still in love with the dead wife but that a girl called Maria is her spitting-image and the religious leader of the Workers. She ends up becoming the pawn of both these men but also the lover of the hero. Continue reading “Film Review: Metropolis – Fritz lang (1922)”
Occult, Sci-fi & Military 