I killed my future self. Again.

My friend comic-book historian Alan Kistler made a webisode about Bill Finger and his role in the development of Batman, for the second installment of his series Stay Geeky:

Curiously enough, with help from some friends at TrekRadio.net, I recorded "The Music of Star Trek Vanguard," a three-hour streaming-audio podcast about many various pieces of music that influenced me while I was writing the Vanguard novels from 2005-2012. It explores specific pieces of music that were part of the Vang…

Part of the reason it's so hard to bring TNG and DS9 to High-Definition is that they were shot on film but finished on video in post-production. Consequently, many of their visual effects are not suitable for upscaling to HD. To bring DS9 properly into HD would be a massively expensive undertaking, and would…

Any chance of getting my novel Star Trek: The Fall — A Ceremony of Losses added to Tuesday, October 29? ;-)

“There is no dark side of the moon, really.

Aliens.

This ship design is by Masao Okazaki — he created the Archer class (a smaller version of the Paris class on his Starfleet Museum site) for the Star Trek Vanguard novel series I co-created with editor Marco Palmieri, and co-wrote (alternating titles) with Dayton Ward & Kevin Dilmore.

Check out this piece by Rob Caswell, the artist whose work actually inspired a whole new Star Trek book series.

I'm surprised that in a compilation of "The Worst Utopias Ever Created" the author would omit the one utopia that was intentionally designed to be a horror: Omelas, from the Hugo-winning Ursula K. Le Guin short story "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas." It's a scathing indictment of the notion of a utopia purchased…

Comedian and late-night talk-show host Craig Ferguson had a bit in his stand-up special Does This Need to Be Said? that, once I accepted it as my mantra, has spared me countless incidents of self-embarrassment online or elsewhere.

I have no trouble with seeing a new version of the origin story in Man of Steel. That said, if this movie does well enough to merit a sequel, this would be a wonderful opening sequence for that film.

Sweetie, Daddy needs to show his Death Star plans to the Emperor tomorrow morning. So I'm going to ask you one last time…

Actually, this is a weakness I explored in my Star Trek Destiny trilogy.

"This movie never quite got the Stallone taint off it." — And if there's one thing no one wants to get slapped with, it's Stallone's taint.

The continuity between the Star Trek books is much tighter now, though some novels continue to be planned as stand-alone stories not linked to the ongoing serial narratives that link many of the other books.

Any chance someone could be persuaded to add my Star Trek: The Next Generation novel Cold Equations, Book I: The Persistence of Memory on October 30? It's the first volume in a trilogy, with books two and three to follow on November 27 & December 26, respectively. (And look for some io9 writing staff shout-outs in…

So do I. For now it's just a spec project, but one can dream. :-)

I'm actually doing something very similar to this right now; I'm adapting my first original novel, THE CALLING, into a feature screenplay, which has room for only about a short novella's worth of content. It's a fascinating exercise in learning what parts of a core narrative work and which don't, and how to condense…

Who's "scruffy looking"?