Hello, My name is Brad.

I decided to start this site to give you my thoughts on some of the most entertaining and creative writers in today’s (and yesterdays) science fiction and fantasy genre.

I am not a writer, editor, publisher, or anything like that. I just love the genre. I really started reading s/f/f while in the US Army. I didn’t have a car and not many ways to go anywhere so a friend loaned me a couple of books. I was hooked! This was 1990 before being deployed to Iraq. After returning, I began what became my collection of over 400 books.

I started buying new and used books at a sometimes alarming rate but then I found that I could resale the books that I didn’t care for(at a loss of course-it is a business) and I could get cash or more often more books. I still own many of my first buys though some are pretty beat up from many readings.

To me, how I judge a book and/or an author is that, I get excited to read the next one before I’m done with the first, because the author has created something that pulled me in. I don’t like everything from a particular writer but there are some series that I anxiously await the newest one that always seems to take forever to come out, even though I know it is perfectly reasonable spans in between. How can you not want others to get that same excitement  in this been there done that culture that is rapidly drowning out the appreciation for creativity.

I am new to blogging and such so it may take some time to get it sorted into something that makes sense. I hope to see you soon.