7 October 2016

Last week, he’d received a small, thick, bone-white card delivered by private courier while he was making a delivery. Paper messages were extremely rare as paper itself was so valuable. Usually if a message had to be delivered on hard media, it was on poly-vellum which was more durable and very cheap. It would also…

6 October 2016

One of my stories, “Observation Lair” is in the new issue of Speculative 66. (Issue 2 if that link is out-of-date.)

5 October 2016

The second issue of Recycled Comics, “Insubstantial” will begin in one week! When the time comes, you’ll find it on the Recycled Comics site. In the meantime you can re-read the first issue, “Rattleback Skies” including it’s back-of-the-issue ad for Baldor Navigational Equipment.

23 September 2016

One of my stories, Under Pressure is in “In a Flash 2016”. This year’s volume of eSPEC Books’ annual flash fiction anthology. You can get it here.

13 September 2016

Marking the first time one of my works has been published in a children’s magazine, my story “The Fate of the White Wolf” appears in Issue 4 of Balloons Lit. Journal. It’s out now, and it’s free to read online. Share it with a child maybe?

9 September 2016

Errol Rosario Tucker was the highest quality male which Earth had produced on the 9th of September 2234. This was objective fact. Of all males born on September 9th of that particular year, Errol Rosario Tucker was the most exemplary combination of strength, intelligence, and virility. He knew this because it had been decided by…

31 August 2016

It’s okay. They are over here now: http://recycledcomics.manawaker.com/ If you’re used to getting your RC fix from RSS, you’ll have to subscribe to the RSS on the new site to continue to receive the new(old) strips. The site’s visual design is still a WiP, but this change should make the stories significantly easier to navigate.

25 August 2016

Readers, fans, contributors, and collaborators, It’s been eight months since the last update roundup from Manawaker Studio. I hope this note finds you well. I know you’re busy; I’ll try to keep it quick. The big news that prompted this update is the release of Starward Tales, Manawaker Studio’s latest anthology. My biased opinion is that…

24 August 2016

Note: While it seems Jansen was waxing philosophical here, he was really just reiterating lessons he learned as a child. Solar Society at this time was dominated by the philosophy of The Universal Commons, basically an upholding of the ideals of Accountable Socialism in nearly all aspects of life. Children were taught early that no one owned…

17 August 2016

Note: Though only the most wealthy could afford interplanetary trips, cruising remained a popular vacation choice even deep into the quantum age. On Mars, these cruise liners were slow, high-capacity dirigibles. Popular ports-of-call included Historical Mars City, College Station, Nouveau Paris, Cattown, and North Polar Cap Systemic Parklands (“NoCap Park” to the locals).