Author: Davis Ashura

‘First lady’ of the Khmer Rouge dies. Funny how benign evil can appear.

Davis: With me today is John D. Brown, or The Man as he’s known in some parts. Welcome to my little home on the web, John. We’ll start off with a little history if you don’t mind. In terms of your prior writing, I believe you started out with short stories and had an epiphany during a…

I try not to get excited about things like this Impossible EM Drive, but I sure hope it pans out. Exciting won’t begin to describe my reaction if it does. If Mars is only 70 days away, I imagine everything will get very interesting in a few decades, and not solely in the way of that…

Exciting news if it can be confirmed and if the planet in question is rocky. What’s that? It’s 1600 light years away. Hmm. I suppose my frequent flier miles won’t get me there.

Why is Sigourney Weaver awesome? Because in addition to being a great actress, she has absolutely no qualms about loving the genre that helped make her a star: sci-fi. And she loves the franchise that she personifies: Alien. Here are her thoughts on the upcoming Alien sequel and the crappy Alien vs. Predator movies.

I’ve discussed writing and music with many other authors, including Jacob Cooper and Jonathan Renshaw, both of whom have a background in music. All of us have our own approaches to external stimuli when writing, but for me, I have to have music when I write. It’s like it fires up my mind and gets my imagination…

This story always puts a smile on my face. SR-71 Blackbird

The other day, I got the first 15 minutes of narration back on A Warrior’s Path. The voice actor is Nick Podehl, the narrator of Patrick’ Rothfuss’ Kingkiller Chronicles (Name of the Wind and Wise Man’s Fear). Those first 15 minutes…wow. Can’t describe how wonderful it sounded. Hopefully, it will be ready to go sometime…

Even though it’s a holiday, I’m trying to get some writing done. The hard part of the first 1/3 of book 3 is past me, and while I like it, thanks to Bill, one of my awesome beta readers, I’ve got some ideas on what to do to make it better. It means adding a…

An interview with Julian May, one of my favorite authors via SFFWorld (I didn’t get to interview her-I wish). I remember her Pliocene Exile series with great fondness. It’s still worth a read.