Jump to content

JamesSavik

Signature Author
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    8,823

  • Joined

  • Last visited

 Content Type 

Everything posted by JamesSavik

  1. JamesSavik
  2. JamesSavik
    A List of Clancy's Major Works The Hunt for Red October Red Storm Rising Patriot Games The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clear and Present Danger Sum of All Fears Without Remorse Debt of Honor Executive Orders Rainbow Six The Bear and the Dragon Red Rabbit Teeth of the Tiger Against All Enemies Dead or Alive Threat Vector Locked On Command Authority (debuts in December)
  3. JamesSavik
  4. JamesSavik
    It's 18:51 here and I just ate supper. I've had to take some time off to stay with my Mom as she is recovering from surgery. Thank goodness she likes chicken pies that I can microwave!
  5. JamesSavik
    Clancy more or less defined a new sub-genre called the techno-thriller. His books include explanations on how the technological wizardry of military and spy-gadgets actually work. If you read his books you'll learn a lot about how spies, the military and goverenment are supposed to work. This genera has spread and a ton of authors have been heavily influenced by Clancy. Brad Thor, Pat Robinson, Larry Bond, Jonathan Maberry, Michael Cricton, Clive Cussler and many others write tecchno-thrillers. Some hallmarks of his work are his scenes, transitions, time-lines and addressing technical issues and questions. My own work has been influenced by Clancy and my most memorable praise for In the Shadow of the Dragon was it being called Clancy-esque.
  6. JamesSavik
  7. JamesSavik
    What is a deity? To any primitive, a sufficiently advanced race is a god and their works can only be explained as magic.
  8. JamesSavik
    There is no reason that we have to assume that only one of those answers is the only CORRECT answer. We know for sure that earth was heavily bombarded by asteroids and comets in the distant past. In fact our current atmosphere and hydrosphere came to earth this way. We know for sure that there have been a number of mass extinctions events both major and minor. The reasons for these extinction events have been caused by impact events, volcanic out-gassing and other more exotic theories. I actually explored this somewhat in one of my stories. The Cloud ( https://www.gayauthors.org/story/jamessavik/thecloud ) There is room for all of those theories in the 6 1/2 billion years since the earth formed.
  9. JamesSavik
    < So is gravity.
  10. JamesSavik
  11. JamesSavik
    The Dirty Birds are avoiding the rush and choking early this year.
  12. JamesSavik
  13. JamesSavik
  14. JamesSavik
  15. JamesSavik
    One peculiarity of the American psyche is that if you seek to ban a book, you guarantee that it will be a best seller.
  16. JamesSavik
    I use three cameras. Apple 4s camera on my phone for everyday type stuff. Fiji Finepix point and shoot. Canon Rebel T3 I'm still learning to use. You can find some of my pix at http://jamessavik.deviantart.com/
  17. JamesSavik
    Army B.R.A.T. Born, Raised And Transferred. As one of Uncle Sam's many misguided children, we are often familiar with living in places no one goes voluntarily. We are from countries that no longer exist like West Germany or places that wish we would just go away like Okinawa. We remember places like Subic Bay in our dreams and South Korea in our nightmares. We did not join up. We were born into the great machine.
  18. JamesSavik
    I'm pretty sure I was part of that campaign.
  19. JamesSavik
    In my fiction there are three types of weapons: Mag Guns: Often called rail guns, a chunk of depleted uranium jacketed in steel is accelerated to a significant fraction of light speed. Missiles: There are a wide variety of missiles deployed by different types of platforms. Warheads vary by mission profile. Mass Drivers: Fire big rocks at planetary targets to kill people and break things quite efficiently. Mag Guns and Mass Drivers take their power from the equation Ek=mv2/2 where m=mass and v=velocity. As the velocity gets larger, the kinetic energy grows exponentially.
  20. JamesSavik
  21. JamesSavik
    Stealth Mode
  22. JamesSavik
    A template for every online political debate:
  23. JamesSavik
    Ain't that the tooth!
  24. JamesSavik
    America! WOO HOO, Hell yeah! We're such bad asses that we have to bomb ourselves! The rest of the world better back up! We some craZy motherf***ers!
  25. JamesSavik
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgQTESr6BC8 To Serve Man... the cookbook.
×
×
  • Create New...