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The World of “A Song of Ice and Fire”

by storiesbywilliams on December 6, 2012 in Authors, Books, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged a song of ice and fire, ancient greece, ancient rome, antiquity, arrakeen, arrakis, astapor, baron harkonnen, caladan, casterly rock, conspiracy theories, dothraki, Dune, emperor shaddam IV, essos, fedeykin, Frank Herbert, geidi prime, George RR Martin, gondor, hadrians wall, hobbits, ilyrio, J RR Tolkien, kings landing, lannisters, Lord of the Rings, mereen, middle earth, minas tirith, Paul Atreides, qarth, sardukar, seitch tabr, selusa secundus, slavers bay, sothoryos, the atreides, the fremen, the harkonnens, the king in the north, the reach, the shield wall, the shire, vaes dothrak, westeros, yunkai

After reading four of the five of the books in the ongoing Song of Ice and Fire series, I’ve come to realize something. I really like the world George RR Martin has created! In fact, you might say I haven’t found myself becoming so engrossed with a fictional universe since Dune or Lord of the […]

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700th Post!

by storiesbywilliams on December 3, 2012 in Grim5next, News, Novels, Story Time and tagged bath salts zombie, blog, crashlands, dystopian, Frank Herbert, freshly pressed, Goodreads, grim5next, hits, posts, sci-fi books, sci-fi movies, science fiction, serial novel, space anthology, story time, views, web traffic, website, writer's worth, yuva

Yes, I know its a bit of an odd number. But I was still pleased and kind of blown away to find out that I was nearing this landmark recently. And I thought, what better excuse for a little retrospective and a chance to say thanks for the support? My my, where to begin? Well, […]

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Religion in Sci-Fi

by storiesbywilliams on September 24, 2012 in Authors, Books, Sci-Fi and tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, 3001: Final Odyssey, Alastair Reynolds, Aldous Huxley, anakin skywalker, arrakis, Arthur C Clarke, asbolution gap, bene gesserit sisterhood, chasm city, children of dune, darth vader, duncan, Dune, dune messiah, emperor palpatine, f451, farhenheit 451, firstborn, flow my tears the policeman said, foundation, Frank Herbert, fremen, FTL, gene roddenberry, george lucas, god, god emperor of dune, guy montag, h.g. wells, harkonnens, hyperspatial drive, i robot, indoctrination virus, Isaac Asimov, judea-christianity, justice, kaballah, Kefitzat Haderech, kwisatz haderach, leto II, luke skywalker, midichlorians, monoliths, Obi Wan, one state, padishah emperor, Paul Atreides, Philip k dick, picard, PKD, prescience, Qui gonn Jin, Ray Bradbury, redemption ark, revelation space, robert a heinlein, sandworms, sky haussmann, sky's edge, spice, Star Trek, Star Trek TNG, Star Wars, starfleet, stranger in a strange land, the big three, the enterprise, the exegesis of philip k dick, The Force, the jesus incident, the lazarus effect, the shape of things to come, VALIS, VALIS trilogy, war of the worlds, World State, yevgeny zamyatin

Since its inception as a literary genre, religion has played an important role in science fiction. Whether it took the form of informing the author’s own beliefs, or was delivered as part of their particular brand of social commentary, no work of sci-fi has ever been bereft of spirituality.Even self-professed atheists and materialists had something […]

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10 Sci-Fi Novels People Pretend to Have Read

by storiesbywilliams on July 11, 2012 in Books, Reviews and tagged 1984, amazon.com, Arthur C Clarke, bellona, cosmic consciouness, cryptologists, Cryptonomicon, data haven, david foster wallace, dhalgren, Dune, first and last men, foundation, Frank Herbert, galactic empire, gene roddenberry, George Orwell, gravity raindbow, hamlet, incandenzas, infinite jest, io9 magazine, Isaac Asimov, J.M. Straczynski., james joyce, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell., leigh brackett, Neal Stephenson, not long after, olaf stapeldon, pat murphy, post-apocalytpic literature, samuel r. delaney, Sci-Fi, science fiction, star maker, susanna clarke, the city, the long tomorrow, the wild girls, thomas pynchon, v2 rocket program, willam gibson, world war 2, world war 3, WWII, yorick

Came across this article in Io9 recently, then again over at Scoop.it. You can tell something is important not only when it speaks to you, but when like-minded individuals begin referencing it! And if you own a blog, you definitely want to get on that! In any case, I found the list especially interesting for […]

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Top 15 Things You’ll Never Hear a Geek Say

by storiesbywilliams on July 9, 2012 in Cool Stuff, Sci-Fi and tagged anime, Avatar, blue chick from avatar, captain kirk, captain picard, dune prequels, dune sequels, Frank Herbert, geeks, geore lucas raped my childhood, George RR Martin, mcdune books, Star Trek, Star Wars, Star Wars prequels, the big bang theory, ursula k le guin, weird al jankovic, white and nerdy

This really doesn’t happen, but it seems I gave myself an idea with that last post. And to think it all came of an inappropriate joke! Essentially, I began to joke about the kinds of things geeks never say and even listed a few. And it got me thinking, one thing this blog has been […]

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My Personal Writing Tips, or “How to Avoid Rookie Mistakes”

by storiesbywilliams on July 8, 2012 in Books, Grim5next, Story Time and tagged asimov, Dune, dune prequels and sequels, dune spinoffs, foundation series, Frank Herbert, grim5next, mcdune books, spice as metaphor for oil, spice melange, Star Wars prequels, the galactic empire, the galactic empire and rome, worlds undone, writer's worth, writing, yuva

Proofreading and editing can be such a chore, I tell ya! Thought I’ve never been very good at proofreading and criticizing other peoples work, I find that it is when I am called upon to edit and evaluate their work that I most want to retreat into my shell. I feel selfish when this happens, […]

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The Foundation Series

by storiesbywilliams on July 7, 2012 in Books, Reviews and tagged anacreon, Arthur C Clarke, decline and fall of the roman empire, Dune, edward gibbon, foundataion and empire, foundation, foundation series, foundation trilogy, Frank Herbert, galactic empire, hari seldon, Isaac Asimov, larry niven, middle ages, psychohistory, rome, salvor hardin, science fiction, seldon crisis, seldon's plan, seldon's vault, terminus, the big three, the dark ages, the encyclopediasts, the fall of rome, the foundation, the history of the decline and fall of the roman empire, the mayors, the merchant princes, the psychohistorians, the roman empire, the traders, transmuter, trantor

When it comes to science fiction, few authors have achieved the kind of notoriety and prolific ouput of Isaac Asimov. Amongst the greats of classic sci-fi, he considered one of the “Big Three”, along with arry Niven and Arthur C. Clarke. And when it comes to his many novels, short stories, articles and thoughtful essays, […]

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My First Troll!

by storiesbywilliams on June 9, 2012 in Authors, Books, News and tagged Brian Herbert, Dune, dune 7, dune and its descendents, dune prequels, dune sequels, Dune universe, Frank Herbert, kevin j anderson and brian herbert

Wow, this is what it feels like to experience hate mail! I gotta say, I’m kind of flattered. It was in reference to my article “Dune and Its Descendents”, one of many in which I praised the late Frank Herbert for his amazing work over the years and bashed the work that has followed in […]

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Technology in the Dune Universe

by storiesbywilliams on June 3, 2012 in Books, Movies, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged arrakis, atomics, axlotl tank, duke leto atreides, Dune, fedaykin, foldspace, foldspace technology, Frank Herbert, fremen, guild heighliners, guild navigators, holtzman engines, holtzman shields, house atreides, house corrin, Ixian, ixian probe, lasgun, leto II, miles teg, no-chamber, no-ship, ornithopter, Paul Atreides, prison planet, sand crawler, sandworms, sardaukar, Sci-Fi, science fiction, selusca secundus, spice, stillsuits, stone burner, technology of dune, the bene gesserit, the bulterian jihad, the fremen, the great convention, the tleilaxu

Hello again techies and social studies experts! I’m sorry, I assume those are the only two kinds of people who would enjoy these posts Regardless, I love doing them, mainly because it gives me a chance to exercise a little critical thinking when it comes to some of the most popular franchises of science fiction. […]

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Worlds of Dune

by storiesbywilliams on April 3, 2012 in Books, Sci-Fi, Series and tagged arrakeen, arrakis, axlotl tank, baron harkonnen, bene gesserit, bene tleilax, caladan, chani, chapterhouse, chapterhouse dune, children of dune, dr yueh, duke leto, duncan idaho, Dune, dune messiah, dune novels, face dancer, feyd rathau, Frank Herbert, fremen, geidi prime, ghola, gholas, god emperor of dune, golden lion throne, gurney halleck, hagal quartz, heretics of dune, honored matres, house atreides, house corrino, house harkonnen, hwi noree, Ix, Ixian, Jessica, kaitain, leto II, malky, miles teg, no-cell, no-field, no-ship, old empire, old imperium, Paul Atreides, planets of dune, sandworms, sardaukar, selusa secundus, shai-hulud, spacing guild, the maker, the spice, The Tyrant Leto II, tleilax, tleilaxu, wallach IX, whalefur

Hello all and welcome back. Starting today, I thought I’d get into a cheerier aspect of science fiction. Not that I don’t looooove dystopian stuff, but after days and days of romping through endless examples of totalitarian, cyberpunk and just generally dark futures, I thought it might be time for a break. And it just […]

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