Musings and Curio
Although it never moved beyond its small niche, The Matrix Online was a massive multiplayer online game that took place after The Matrix trilogy. With the blessing of the Wachowskis and storyline input from renowned comic book writer and illustrator Paul Chadwick, The Matrix Online (or MxO for short) looked to create an organic and dynamic virtual world. With a model built... Continue Reading →
Indie lit site The Oak Wheel has recently begun publishing a weekly poetry anthology, with contributors being prompted with a specific theme or word as the basis. I submitted for this week's anthology and made the cut. Please check out my poem "Clotho's Compass" along with the other contributors!
Sight Unseen shares thematic links with Orion's Hounds, the third book in the Star Trek: Titan series but the first to truly undertake the ship's primary mission of exploration. In the latter novel we saw a return of the "Star-jellies", the race of jellyfish-like aliens from Star Trek: The Next Generation's premiere episode, "Encounter at Farpoint", Upon reading Orion's... Continue Reading →
The latest Iris Wildthyme collection, The Perennial Miss Wildthyme, is now available from Obverse Books. Edited by Dale Smith and featuring a gorgeous cover by Paul Hanley, this volume contains 12 short stories, including my contribution "The Midnight Empire". Onward!
Julio Angel Ortiz | Writer 