by ladipaolo | Tue May 2023 | Science in Fiction
How strange and thoroughly surprising: In the just-released Book 3 of Conquerors of K’Tara, Darkness Gains, I wrote a scene where the Umbra shares a Zebulonian technology with his Yeltcheki contacts in exchange for their ships. This technology is seen as magical...
by ladipaolo | Sun May 2023 | My Blog (c )
Darkness Gains, Book 3 of Conquerors of K’Tara is finally out and available for all to read. Darkness Gains will see the Serpent, working with Noctiferus’s other creatures, deal crippling blows to the Alvinorians: in the air, on the ground, and in the Bind....
by ladipaolo | Sat Jan 2023 | My Blog (c )
Toras, Aithen, and Elyana as well as Scorch and the princes’ young brother return to us in Book 3 of Conquerors of K’Tara: Darkness Gains. Darkness Gains will see the Serpent, working with Noctiferus’s other creatures, deal crippling blows to the...
by ladipaolo | Wed Nov 2022 | My Blog (c )
It is with great excitement that I announce that an audio version of Ronin Parts 1-3 is now available on Audible and iTunes. The audiobook is 1hr49min of joy listening to the very same and talented Adam R. Watson, who produced the Conquerors of K’Tara books 1...
by ladipaolo | Sat Sep 2022 | My Blog (c )
It seems that the silent stretches have not yet met their end for I have indeed not posted anything in months, and this silent stretch follows an earlier one. I suppose this year will likely remain so given the unusual circumstances keeping from writing — and it...
by ladipaolo | Sun Jan 2022 | My Blog (c )
It is nice to finally get back into Book 3 of Conquerors and re-immerse myself in it. I have been at it for two weeks now, struggling a little, at first, as I tried to put myself back into all the characters’ shoes. But this morning, it happened, and the feeling...
by ladipaolo | Sat Dec 2021 | My Blog (c )
In fact, it took me until the fourth episode to accept this rendition of The Wheel of Time for what it is, an honest and wonderful adaptation of the novel’s true character, that is to say, that despite the many–at times radical–changes,...
by ladipaolo | Sun Oct 2021 | My Blog (c )
A masterpiece. Villeneuve’s Dune blew me away. The cinematography, the perfection of the details, the intensity of the performances, they all left me and my son feeling in awe, and this, despite the–few–notable deviations from the novel. I am aware...
by ladipaolo | Sun Oct 2021 | My Blog (c )
Did you know about some of the fantasy and sci-fi TV series and movies coming out this fall? I am so excited by some of it. But of course, whether I will love or hate these adaptations will depend on the performances, on what the showrunners will have decided to put...
