Aaron’s Area: The Life of a Texas nerd in California.

This is admittedly a genre I’m not very familiar with as I wrote it off as a kid after reading “From the Earth to the Moon” by Jules Verne. That has to be my absolute favorite science fiction book and was what cemented my love for science fiction. I saw sword and planet fiction as…

Thought I’d post a review on a newer vampire novel that you can get free on Amazon. This is a self-published e-book on Amazon and the first in a series of books called the “Ava Delaney Series”. I don’t know if this is her first novel or not, but she has a few short stories…

Contemporary fantasy is a fantasy work that is set in the time period of when the story was written. It’s safe to say that all contemporary fantasy is set in ‘modern times’, mostly in the real world. But a book might have been written three hundred years ago, been set in the time period of…

07-27-2012 – Looks like a lot of people found this posting useful. If you are in the Amarillo area, and have some information about outages for various Internet Service Providers or phone companies please let me know any time. I’ll post it here, if it’s within my realm of ability I’ll try to find some…

[podcast]http://aaronsarea.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/10-2-12-Urban-Fantasy-Genre-Explanaion.mp3[/podcast]Urban fantasy is a sub-genre of fantasy that is defined as, “Fantasy narrative taking place inside a city”. Urban fantasy is often confused with contemporary fantasy which is a fantasy story taking place in a contemporary time setting. They are not at all the same, though many urban fantasy stories are also contemporary and vice-versa,…

I thought I’d start my regular reviews (hopefully regular, and less ridiculously long) with a newer, lesser known author and books. I happened to stumble across this book in a completely unexpected place. It’s weird how things just sort of turn up in odd places isn’t it? I can’t really say where I saw the…

I was digging around the web for some more info on this expansion to post here. Fortunately I found some better information than I can do over at the Sims VIP blog. Here’s a fact sheet for anyone interested in this sort of thing. Sims 3 Supernatural Facts Sheet + Official Screens The blog also…

Remember way back in ’03 when Maxis released an expansion called “Makin’ Magic” for an obscure game called “The Sims”? Remember how that was the greatest expansion for one of the greatest games ever? Well it looks like they are FINALLY releasing an expansion like that for The Sims 3. Now while The Sims 3…

I heard about this book on a podcast that’s co-hosted by the author “Weird Things“. They were pushing it pretty hard and I just sort of ignored it, then they had one of the co-hosts read the first chapter or so. I bought it before he was done reading. The book is about a wild…