Kodai Okuda

ELECTRO-ELEMENT (DARK ENERGY) BASED DRIVES

Faster-Than-Light travel (or FTL) would have been impossible for mankind had it not been for the discovery of the alien ruins on the various inner planets of Sol and the spacecraft that littered the cluster of Near Earth Objects trailing our planet.
Human science simply did not have the know-how to go beyond simple theories about how a faster than light drive system might work, let alone build one. The discovery of the alien ruins and ...

Updated 02-04-2012 at 01:08 AM by Kodai Okuda

Tags: hyperdrive, hyperspace, lightspeed, metaphysics, physics, quantum, science fiction, space-time, spacecraft, starship, ufo, warp drive

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Nexus Arcana Side Stories

General History prior to 2048 AD

Economic and political instabilities that had begun in the late 20th Century were carried over into the early 21st. Food and energy shortages caused a vast divide between the wealthy few and the destitute masses all over the earth. This disparity in the standard of living for the average human caused the proletariat and remnant bourgeoisie to revolt against the aristocratic international corporate-banking class and their armies. This rebellion flared ...

Tags: arcana, asian, computer, conspiracy, cosmos, cyber, cybernetics, cyborg, history, internet, nexus, nexus arcana, pacific, science fiction, stygian, the stygian conspiracy, warfare, world war

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Nexus Arcana Side Stories

When I judge a Science Fiction novel I do so using the Campbellian model.
That model being the kinds of science fiction that John Woods Campbell of Astounding magazine published and/or wrote.
In short, I determine whether it's Hard SF or not and will rate it accordingly.
I dislike Soft SF (unless it is exceptionally done), and have a personal preference for Military Science Fiction, thus I usually give my rating based on how close a novel/story is to Hard SF ...

Book Review:

Rune Logic by Leslie Woodsdavis

Review by Kodai Okuda:

Let me start by saying that I rarely give reviews for a book, and when I do judge Science Fiction I do so using the Campbellian model.
That model being the kinds of science fiction that John Woods Campbell of Astounding magazine published and/or wrote.
In short, I determine whether it's Hard SF or not and will rate it accordingly.
I dislike Soft SF (unless it is ...

The following is a compilation of the best science fiction books offered by Independent publishers and authors. This list is not a "top (insert number here)" type list and is based not only on basic grammatical editing criteria but also story content. It will grow as I read and review new books of the SF genre. New listings will be added to this post as I complete them. Individual reviews for SF books (even those that do not make this list) will be posted in the ...

Updated 01-28-2012 at 08:11 AM by Kodai Okuda

Tags: amazon, author, book, grammar, independent, premium, publisher, punctuation, review, sci fi, science fiction, sf genre, smashwords, writing

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The Art of Writing