Welcome to my website, and thanks for visiting. If you’re a reader of my books, I hope you’ll find lots of interesting stuff to see and read here; if you aren’t, maybe you’ll try one of them. In any case, I’ll try to entertain and amuse regularly.
If you don’t really know who I am and got here by chance, I’m Ryk E. Spoor; click the “About Ryk E. Spoor” tab if you want way too much info on me. I’m a science-fiction and fantasy writer with, at present, five published novels and three more under contract. Take a look around!
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Under the Influence: Saint Seiya
Back in the primitive days before the World Wide Web, before E-mail was standard and cellphones common, there was also the time in which anime and manga (Japanese animation and their equivalent of comics/comic books) were as fringe an interest as science fiction itself was many years before. It was an American fandom consisting of small groups of true fans, fanatics in many ways, with connections as secretive and torturous as those of drug smugglers to get second or third generation VHS [ Continue reading... ]
Under The Influence: Star Wars
No, I'm not going to call it "A New Hope". That was added AFTER I saw the movie; at the time, Star Wars was just that, with no implication that it was part of anything else. Of all the singular cultural events in my lifetime (as opposed to political events, like 9/11 or Vietnam), I don’t think any of them has had or will ever have the impact of this single summer movie, made for thirteen million dollars (not a terribly large sum even in 1977). It didn't even have the [ Continue reading... ]
Sites of Interest
- Charlie's Diary
- David Weber
- Elizabeth Moon
- Eric Flint's Place on the Web
- Kathy'sBling
- Office-To-Go
- P.C. Hodgell
- The Art of Todd Lockwood
- The Fantastic Art of Bob Eggleton
- The Misenchanted Page
- The Official Barbara Hambly Page
- The Official Terry Brooks Website
- The Sea Wasp
- Whatever: John Scalzi's Blog
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