Solar Flare: Science Fiction News

Here’s a rather unique project that’s worth a moment of any science fiction fan’s time. CoMers: The Web Series is an animated flash story in 15 parts. As of this writing, the first 8 parts are available for viewing.

CoMers: The Web Series is a slick animated series complete with sound effects and voice acting. It’s free (which is always nice) and tells a solid science fiction story set in the…

I was taking to a long time friend of mine about Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith film and I said that I believed all the money was up there on the screen. Lucas never takes the easy way out and always attempts to show you something new. That’s his strength as a director. It doesn’t always work out but a least he tries.

I went away, thought about this, and…

I watched most of the episodes of Firefly when they originally aired on Fox, but before it was cancelled I had already lost interest in the series. I’ve always been faintly amazed at the loyalty and enthusiasm that Firefly generated. I just shrugged my shoulders and figured it was one of those shows I didn’t “get”.

Now with the upcoming film Serenity and the recent release of the Firefly DVD boxed…

Please allow me to take a moment for self-congratulations. I hit two milestones this week of various degrees of significance.

First off Solar Flare passed the 500 post mark. Which means by my estimates we could hit the 1000 post point before the end of 2005. In itself that’s perhaps not very amazing or significant, but it does indicate Solar Flare’s continued growth and the maturation of its new blog format.…

Nick Pollotta is a prolific professional novelist with over 70 published books, and plenty more to come. He writes SF and Fantasy/Humor under his own name, but he also writes SF/Humor as Jack Hopkins, SF/Military as (one of the many) James Axler. and Military/Thrillers as Don Pendelton. Nick was kind enough to take a little time and answer a few questions for Solar Flare.

Nick has some interesting things to say…