Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

FROM CELIA HAYES AND JEANNE HAYDEN:  The Luna City Compendium #1.


Welcome to Luna City, Karnes County, Texas! Population … well, that varies, depending on the time of year. Luna City; whose Town Square is the architectural jewel of South Texas.

Where the high school football team is called the Mighty Fighting Moths and their yearly Homecoming game is under some strange and irregular curse.

Once meant to be a stop on the San Antonio & Aransas Pass Railroad, but derailed by True Love …

Where there might be a fortune in gold hidden somewhere for the last hundred years ….

Where half the townsfolk has the surname of Gonzalez or Gonzales, they’re all related and descended from the holder of the original Spanish land grant but no one has ever been able to figure out whether his name ended in an ‘s’ or a ‘z’, due to illegible handwriting on the original paperwork! A historic marker on Town Square marks the spot where a local bootlegger was nearly hung in 1926 for (among a long list of offenses against the laws of God and Man) impersonating a nun!

Luna City, where eccentricity is just a part of every-day life. Drop in for a visit – you might never want to leave.

IT’S OKAY. WE’RE NOT DEALING WITH TRUE BELIEVERS:  Types of Tyranny.

GUYS? BUY POPCORN:  Black Hammer Group “Liberates” Colorado Land For CHOP Commune.

These guys are at a higher altitude than Vail. Good luck growing anything. Even if any of them were capable of working, and there were more than one woman, and their leader didn’t look like a reject of community college theater class and sound like someone who consumes way too much soy, they’d be doomed. This way? They’ll be doomed in interesting ways. Their story will become a legend of these mountains, and the site of their hilarious and horrible demise another touristic site in Colorado.

They should name it the Alferd Packer Memorial Camp and cut through the chase.

IT WAS NEVER ANYTHING TO BE THAT SCARED OF:  Don’t buy the fearmongering: The COVID-19 threat is waning.

Now they’re trying really hard to make “climate crisis” a thing, apparently forgetting that those of us who aren’t autistic Swedes were already over that bs before they ran the virus scare.

THE SOCIALISTS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES HAVE LONG SINCE STOPPED BEING ABOUT THE WORKING CLASS:  The real question Labour can’t answer.

Of course, since Marx, it never was. The imagined proletariat was never real working people. It was the febrile dreams of radical losers who imagined this creature, capable of the violence they themselves feared, being the instrument of their vengeance on the world.  Let’s face it, a lot of pain could have been saved by giving Marx thorazine.

FROM JAMES YOUNG:  Ride of the Late Rain.

“Ride of the Late Rain is a great read with well-crafted dialogue and outstanding, realistic battle scenes…”–Pop Cults.

“A captain’s first duty is to the Confederation..”–Confederation Fleet General Order #1

The destroyer Shigure is the oldest destroyer in the fleet…or so she seems. Equipped with a powerful, new device, the “Late Rain” is chosen for a special, dangerous project. With a young crew and modifications that makes her vessel not what she seems, Commander Leslie Hawkins presses into unknown space to examine structures detected by an Confederation Fleet survey vessel…and discovers that Mankind is not alone.

“Ride of the Late Rain” received an Honorable Mention in the Fall 2012 “Writer’s of the Future Contest.” Judges included Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Orson Scott Card, and Kevin J. Anderson. Its full length sequel, _An Unproven Concept_, is now available via Amazon in both electronic and hard copy, with the “Kraken Edition” consisting of this short story and the novel combined.

“Recommended” Rating from “Right Fans: Sci Fi from the Other Side” Blog.

WHAT PART OF YOU GET MORE OF WHAT YOU PAY FOR IS OPAQUE?  Why Our Current Approach To Work Is Unsustainable.

Right now, we’re paying people to be useless and helpless victims. Well, the government is. With my money.  And yours.