Recent content by lyl syly

very doable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%27s_Universe

Sell. Get published. Often by bigger publishers. I volunteer at a couple of homeless shelters and often pickup some fantasy/sci-fi out of donated books and read them. I end up reading more trash this way than I do good books. Then I go to the library and look at the new books and see the same...

Okay, I am going to show my age here. My all time favorite song (and has been since it came out in '77). Rush - Xanadu Warning: It is 11 minutes long

I would say that you should normalize the text, move it both as high as possible and as low as possible and let the Outstanding picture speak for itself. Of course, YMMV.

There are some of the novels I wouldn't mind seeing made into movies. Of course, there are also some of the movies that the very thought of someone making a movie of would be very scary. Happy Halloween!

But I started reading five decades ago :lol: Seriously, I actually got my sci-fi start with the E.E. Smith/Edgar Rice Burroughs/Robert Howard books in '64. Not much later came Asimov/Clark/Heinlein et al. I know there have been bad books/stories around far longer than I have been reading. It...

Actually, its that I read a book a day (usually) and always looking for things I haven't read (at the library) most of what I get seems to be pure trash (not all of it, but most) compared to what I was getting a decade ago. Funny you should mention Starship Troopers, I actually feel the same...

Is it just me or does it seem like even bad fiction (all genres) sell these days as compared to even a decade ago?

So change it up. Maybe have him get into such deep kimchi saving her that she has to save him (yeah, it has been done, but not much). Hey, Han didn't like the princess at first but look where that ended up :lol: Oh, BTW, new here, first post, hi y'all