Hi, Everybody, I haven’t posted in a while and wanted to publish a few updates. I’ve got over 80,000 words written on the third Intrepid Force novel, but am considering splitting it into two overlapping books. I’m going to separate the pieces and see if Read More …
Category: Intrepid Force: Invasion
Comics and Computers, Part 3: Poser, Daz, and Lightwave
When I saw the ads for the first Poser software package, I was thrilled. Here was a program that produced posable 3d human figures. I bought the first version when it came out. In those days, the human figures it generated were fairly primitive. Those Read More …
Invasion: The Backlot Tour
One of the places I invented for Intrepid Force: Invasion was Heritage Studios in Hollywood. According to the story, it was one of the old Hollywood studios that one of the character’s great-uncles had revitalized back in the early 20th century. The backlot set was Read More …
Invasion: Titan and Me
It was January 14, 2004, and I was doing final edits on Intrepid Force: Invasion when the Huygens module dropped through the cold, cloudy atmosphere of Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. On my way home from Orlando, I bought a newspaper and pulled over at a Read More …
Invasion: A.I. Gone Wrong
Professor Stephen Hawking and Tesla chief executive Elon Musk have both warned about the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence. Musk warned that A.I. could be “more dangerous than nukes” and “an existential threat.” Hawking was fearful that a machine with “full artificial intelligence” could “take Read More …
Invasion: Enjoying Armageddon?
My dad told me once about a conversation he had had with a coworker whose church had been going through a study of the end times. Apparently, the guest preacher had painted a pretty graphic picture of the Antichrist’s reign of terror and the horrors Read More …
Invasion: A Day in History
October 30, 2018 will mark the 80th anniversary of a momentous event. In the year 1938, terrifying creatures from the planet Mars fled their own dying world to invade earth. Their first cylinder crashed on a farm in Drover’s Mill, New Jersey. After shooting down Read More …
Intrepid Force Inspirations: My Super Friends
It’s pretty obvious that one of the key inspirations to Intrepid Force was the comic books I was reading at the time, and I lived in a great time for comics. Most of DC’s iconic characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, etc.) were products of the Read More …