Had a great time at Liberty Con this year. Met a lot of talented folks, heard a lot of interesting panel discussions, and–finally–Cindy and I got to meet one of my personal heroes, Timothy Zahn.
I also met, and did an impromptu media assist, for author and scientist Travis Taylor. Taylor has a lot of work under his belt, including fiction, non-fiction, and straight up text books. This panel discussion centered around his Alien Invasion: How to Defend Earth. A work in which he argues two highly probable likelihoods: aliens do exist and–if they come to Earth–they’ll probably be hostile. He then went through several scenarios detailing humanity’s chances of putting together a suitable resistance. Unsurprisingly, even with Will Smith and Jeff Goldblum on our side, things don’t look good.
His presentation was fun and engaging, and I can’t recommend the book enough. You can check it out here.
Superheroes in Prose Volume 10: Two Rocks and a Hard Place, on sale September 24th.
Sevan Paris 
This sound like my kind of book, although I’ll probably catch Volume 1 before Volume 10. Great to see other author speculate on end-of-world scenarios based on fighting aliens!
This was my first exposure to that sort of thing, but it was fascinating. Out of a hundred computer simulations, the only one in which we stood a chance or survival depended on the following: the alien weaponry only being twice as advanced as ours; they would only be able to send reinforcements every 20 years; as soon as men were old enough to hold a gun, they started fighting; women took enough fertility drugs to have triplets every nine months; and women spent their time between labors on an assembly line to help with the war effort. After 40 years of fighting, we might have been able to make the war too expensive for the aliens.