Tag Archives: ebooks

New tabletop sci-fi RPG resource to feature my illustrations.

  I was recently approached to use some of my illustrations in the latest supplement from Draken Games. I was very happy to provide some illustrations, and most pleased to see the quality of the supplement when it was released. One of the problems with sci-fi role-playing games is that, unless they are copying a [...]

Sci Fi author responsible for Battlestar Galactica offers free online writing course, and some free eBooks (but are they any good).

Jeffrey A. Carver always posts his latest science fiction novels on his website to download for free, although they are real books and will be published in the print medium too, and that’s brought him to my attention. I’m always searching for free sci-fi eBooks you see. It turns out that this author also offers [...]

Sci-Fi Book Worm, looking for – and finding – inspirational SF for role-playing games like Traveller

Sci-Fi bookworm column, with cool robobookworm illustration. A Sci-Fi Ezine, wow.  My thoughts on the free science fiction inspiration I find dotted around the interweb is proving popular(ish) and I have promoted it to being a regular part of the Starbright mix of stuff for use as inspiration, illustration and resources for role-playing games. My [...]

The Outrider, part three, my science fiction short story eBook preliminary work

A Scrimshaw story Part 1 of this SF short story, Part 2, This is part 3 “We all do that the first time,” said a disreputable looking member of the droid band, “that kind of programming runs deep, you basically have to switch of a droid’s brain and operate them as a drone to get [...]

The Outrider – I’ve started writing a sci fi short story for use as an ebook

The Outrider A Scrimshaw science fiction short story, ideal for inspiration for role-playing game inspiration – or at least the start of one. The outrider was comfortably ensconced in a shallow dent in the surface of the giant transport.The outrider was called OR AK1/J3521; an acronym which elegantly encompassed his role, model and series number. [...]

The free sci fi ebook I found last week was great, now for the next one.

The science fiction story I found last week, see previous sci fi ebook post, as an inspiration for Traveller role-playing games seemed really good as soon as I found it, but it has gone on to exceed my high expectations for it. That it was an inventive setting which combined nanotechnology and medieval elements was [...]