Sid Meir’s Alpha Centauri, released in 1999 by Firaxis Games, has something of a reputation in the gaming community. With hard science fiction, three-dimensional characterization and a climactic premise, Alpha Centauri is widely considered to be one of the most well-written science fiction games ever made.
Author Archives: Alastair Jones
Paris in the Twentieth Century: The Cyberpunk Novel of the Victorian Age
In which I examine a 19th century novel from a genre that wouldn’t exist for another hundred years.
Human & Lupusad – A Retrospective on a Web Serial Novel
One of the biggest revelations I had early in my time as a writer was that I could write the kind of stories I wanted to read, but didn’t exist. I just had to be the one to bring them into existence. And so I began work on Human & Lupusad: Of Men and Wolves, a fantasy-drama web serial novel set in a newly-industrialized fantasy world divided between two species. And it was a project that proved so successful that I would attempt to reboot it into proper novels.
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