Tag Archives: G.K. Chesterton

My Latest Project, Thursday 2.0, Released!

Posted on October 17, 2012 by EDC

I’m very proud to announce Thursday 2.0, my labor of love update of G.K. Chesterton’s masterpiece The Man Who Was Thursday, has been released! It can be found at Amazon.com in both paperback and in electronic format for the Kindle. (Non Kindle-owners can download … Continue reading →

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Cyber Warfare

Posted on June 3, 2011 by EDC

As a kid I remember watching War Games, staring Mathew Broderick, who as a teenager helps avert a nuclear war about to be started by a computer gone berserk.  It sounds cliche now, but at the time, the plot was quite fresh … Continue reading →

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15 Years From Now – Part 3 (Honor)

Posted on March 14, 2011 by EDC

Updating G.K. Chesterton’s masterpiece, The Man Who Was Thursday, has had its joys as well as its challenges. Taking any story originally written and set in the first decade of the 20th Century and bringing it forward 125 years to … Continue reading →

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15 Years From Now – Part 2 (Technology)

Posted on March 12, 2011 by EDC

In my last post I shared how I’m attempting to update a classic novel published in 1908 to have a near future setting.  G.K. Chesterton’s The Man Who Was Thursday was written in in the “present day” of the early … Continue reading →

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15 Years From Now – Part 1 (Anarchy)

Posted on March 10, 2011 by EDC

In my latest project, a near-future adaptation of G.K. Chesterton’s masterpiece The Man Who Was Thursday, I’ve been working hard to take a plot, characters, and setting originally created for what was then the turn of the 20th Century and bring it … Continue reading →

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Next Book Cover Concept

Posted on March 2, 2011 by EDC

There’s a lot that goes into designing a compelling novel cover.  It’s almost like trying to sum up a book in one paragraph.  You want to show something meaningful, but you don’t want to give the ending away either. For … Continue reading →

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Fighting Pre-Crime

Posted on February 17, 2011 by EDC

In the 2002 movie Minority Report,  police make use of ‘precogs’ – people with the ability to dream of crime before it happens – to arrest suspects for wrongs they have yet to commit.  This works well, even driving down … Continue reading →

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