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Finally started on writing a book

Aaron — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 03:01:40 +0000

During the last few weeks I have finally begun working on a book. It will to be a Sci-Fi book – going to be based in another dimension – and I plan on making it a three book series. Right now I’ve been working on getting all the main characters figured out and a list of aliens I want to introduce in the first two books. Right now I’ve struggled between if I want the main crew to be in the military or freelance workers to get involved in the events that will go down. Once I get more things figured out I’ll share some more of m ideas/work. I know I plan on sharing the first chapter once I get it finished; I’m just unsure when that will be exactly.

6th Season of Doctor Who (Part 1 & 2)

Aaron — Tue, 03 May 2011 10:52:59 +0000

That or the 32nd season to those who are really counting! April 23rd and the 30th marked the return of our 11th Doctor as he visited America with his companions. If you can remember all the way back to a year ago with Season 5, they often mentioned that the “Silence” was coming. Well, the Silence was the enemy in both of the first two episodes and let me tell you, those guys were jerks. I would have to rate them in the top 3 of most powerful enemies powers that doctor has had to face. You could only tell the Silence were then while you looked at them, but as soon you turned away you completely forget they exist. Not even one of those, you can sort of remember in the back of your mind. You just forget! It wasn’t until some awesome trickery that the Doctor and his companions were able to remember who the Silence were.

The two part episode started off with something quite… well horrific. We actually see the Doctors death. Although now with all the weird rules that he has discovered that time can be re-written, I suppose this could always change in the future, but for now, we witness him actually die as he was shot, begins to regenerate and then is shot again. Although, as always, he knew what was going to happen so he sent letters out to four of his most trusted friends, Amy, Rory, River and a younger version of himself (Although I was curious as to why Martha Jones, Captain Jack or Micky wasn’t contacted) and they solve the riddle of the Silence. Toward the end of the first part, Amy reveals to the Doctor that she is pregnant, or thinks she is, being Amy she is never quite certain about anything.

We also get to see some nice scenes of Ol’ Tricky Dick himself. (He didn’t do anything important, I just wanted to type Tricky Dick. See? Did it again.)

So without ruining the second episode and how they go about solving the issue of the Silence. I’m pretty stoked for this new season. I really feel that mid-way through Season 5 Matt Smith started to fill out the role of the Doctor that David Tennant left behind. He’s no David Tennant, but few people are. Matt doesn’t have that wild, bouncing around energy that David was able to push on screen. But, David really started to hit his stride during his mid-season 2 and was phenomenal in his last season. So Matt has some time to still wow me. Amy, River and Rory help to balance things out.

If you’re one of those people that has never seen an episode of Doctor Who, I would really recommend watching a few episodes if you get a chance. SyFy usually has episodes every now and then plus last year they seemed to be about three weeks behind in airing the new episodes and NetFlix has the first 4 seasons up for streaming. I’m not real sure how this season will turn out, right now it’s a little odd, but hopefully they can pull it through and have a great story arc.

Audiobooks: Are you lazy or just making better use of your free time?

Aaron — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:47:50 +0000

Coming the start of the summer, Mike K. and I were in a discussion about books, video games, ideas for the web site and, well just about anything else that can come up while you’re sitting on a couch killing people in Warhawk. Upon this came the question he asked, “Have you read Ender’s Game yet?” I won’t lie to you people, my fellow gamers, nerds, geeks… my peepz. I felt ashamed that I told him no after he explained to me what the book was, then I was promptly told. “If you don’t read that book my the end of the summer, I am going to punch you in the face, that’s right, that’s how good that book is.”

With no strong desire to be punched in the face, but already currently in the middle of the second A Game of Thrones novel, A Song of Ice and Fire. What was I to do? Another friend recommended I get the Audio Book and try it out. So I did, I had a 9 hour drive coming up in a week, so I picked up the audio book to check it out.

My final conclusions? I only wish all audio books put as much effort and care into re-creating the books as Orson Scott Card did with the company that made his audio books. They casted several voice actors to play the parts of the different characters. You had the main reader for Ender, and if he was involved in a quick conversation with another person, the reader would change of the pitch of his voice to suit the other character.

Once I finish my current book, I plan on picking up a copy of Ender’s Game. Then I’ll be able to do a compare and contrast of each to see which I prefer. So far with the audio books, I’m on the third novel in the Enderverse series, Xenocide.