Author Archives: Kim Knox
Sex in Space
I was pondering my post here…and being blank of brain (Rather than SFR, I’ve been playing with dragons and hunting out cuneiform and demon masks made from sacred intestines–don’t ask) I pondered it aloud in a chatroom I frequent. Within moments, we were wondering how ejaculate would appear in zero gravity and would it act […]
Guess who’s coming to dinner…?
I realised today how many cook books I have. It’s surprising really as I fall into the ‘OMG! I can’t cook!!’ category of culinary expertise. Even How to Boil an Egg is complicated for me. So, my cookbooks aren’t about something I would actually make myself, they’re more about cooking through history. I have ones […]
Magnetism freebie
The series, PLANETARY BODIES, is set mostly around the Uranian moon, Miranda. The books started life as my wondering about how humans would fulfil their energy needs. I know, not the first place to look for erotic SFR… But, you throw people into a tin can of an atmosphere mining ship, blast them with something […]
Unseen Mars
My current book might have something to do with Mars…so when this opportunity popped up on the BBC this week, it sucked me straight in. Mapping Mars with images no one has ever seen before. Planet Four offers up images of the red planet for you to classify. It entails looking at sections of the […]
Books, books, books aka Christmas swag
I’m fitting in a quick post before I have to consume the very very last of the turkey. I admit, I’m easy to buy for…as long as you buy me slightly odd and/or obscure reference books. This Christmas I bagged 5 – 4 on the seers, oracles and roman curiosities and one on synthetic biology. […]
Down the rabbit hole…
I’m about to start writing book 3 in my steampunk series, due out next year. I’ve been circling into it, preparing myself for the research–and trips–that come with alternative history fun. <–That’s my little office. The two cubes to the far right are now full of books too I swore that I’d never write steampunk […]
Painted Promise snuck into an anthology…
Ellora’s Cave have put three of the art theme stories into print! Art of Amour. My contribution, Painted Promise, is a strange little tale that’s all about…timing. Thirza Girard is a clone. Her mirror image founded a thousand-year dynasty that spans the quadrant. The Girard family power is no accident. The original Thirza made a […]
Punching a velociraptor in the face and other quite interesting things…
Yes, this week I have mostly been watching Primeval. Series 1 and 2 have been on a loop on my computer as I attack my wip. It helps as a form of background noise. Though what this has to do with medieval fantasy and a fairly disgusting magic system, I have no clue. My brain […]
That pesky beast with two backs…
As always, Friday morning hits me and I think I have a vague idea about what I’m going to write here. I’m good, and collect interesting little scraps of information that have appeared in the last fortnight. As in, we could make our own Dyson Sphere in the next 50 years in these five easy […]
“Oh no, they’re all wearing beards!” …or travels in a parallel world
Beards are evil. Especially goatees. That’s probably a fact you could take away from the original Star Trek series. That and Kirk breathed in a lot. Because of Star Trek’s influence, facial hair has become a trope for SF, signalling the divide between worlds. Apophis and Teal’C appear with the evil twin goatee in Stargate-SG1. […]
