All posts for Flight of the Vajra in February 2021

Flight of the Vajra: Behind The Scenes With 'Flight Of The Vajra', Pt. 3: The Influences

How everything from 'Dune' and 'Tron: Legacy' to 'Cowboy Bebop' fed into 'Flight Of The Vajra'.

By Serdar Yegulalp on 2021-02-27 12:00:00 No comments

In the previous installments of this series, I talked about the many-years-long path Flight Of The Vajra took to congeal from several different ideas I had for it. Here, I'm going to talk about some of the other properties and influences that fed into it and shaped it.

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Flight of the Vajra: Behind The Scenes With 'Flight Of The Vajra', Pt. 2: The Idea

How 'Flight Of The Vajra' took shape from a few ideas about what a far-future setting would look like, including materials sciences and belief systems.

By Serdar Yegulalp on 2021-02-25 12:00:00 No comments

Back in Part One of this series I described how the germ of the idea for Flight Of The Vajra came from a while slew of disparate project ideas that never came to fruition. The core of the idea, though, came from a completely different direction.

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Flight of the Vajra: Behind The Scenes With 'Flight Of The Vajra', Pt. 1: The Origins

How my novel 'Flight Of The Vajra' began as multiple unreconciled attempts to write a "big and bold" space opera.

By Serdar Yegulalp on 2021-02-24 12:00:00 No comments

Somewhere along the line, I think I made a pledge to myself to try writing at least one story in every genre I can get my hands on, until either I run out of genres or I myself run out, period. Among the bases I've already rounded include space opera, and that in what I hope is a big country way. But boy, did it take a long time to get there.

(Note: Some of this has been rewritten or taken from a previous post I did on this subject, so there is some duplication of material.)

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Infinimata Press: Projects: Give It Away Now, February 2021 Edition

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By Serdar Yegulalp on 2021-02-22 21:00:00 No comments

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