Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
"Could you take a minute and explain what your Cassandra Kresnov series happens to be about? The Cassandra Kresnov series is about an artificial person, Cassandra (or Sandy), constructed to be the most lethal ever soldier in an interstellar war, who decides she’d rather be a normal person instead. But of course, the powers that shaped her creation on all...
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... and movements and creates real-time situational awareness for everyone on the battlefield. In the Cassandra Kresnov series, I call this system tac-net. As a side effect of this, infantry tactics will become infinitely more complex, because soldiers will have a much better idea of exactly what's going on, and their options will change from fuzzy options to precise options." 4...
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
"Q: What was the spark that generated the idea which drove you to write CROSSOVER and the Cassandra Kresnov series in the first place? I'd had an idea for a super-warrior in my head for a long time, I've long been fascinated by the concept of great power, and the morality plays entailed in deciding how to use such power. Not in superheroes so much, because so few of the great American...
Free SF Reader : Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
"Following on from my world-building piece about ‘Sasha’, I thought I’d do something similar for the ‘Cassandra Kresnov Series’." 4 out of 5 http://www.joelshepherd.com/2009/11/following-on-from-my-world-building.html
Pyr-o-mania (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Following on from my world-building piece about ‘Sasha’, I thought I’d do something similar for the ‘Cassandra Kresnov Series’. Obviously there’s a fair few scientific improbabilities in Cassandra’s world, starting with Earthlike planets of roughly similar gravity, atmosphere, etc. My technical excuse is that the primary scientific improbability...
