by William Hladky | Jul 28, 2020 | The Book Of Ruin, The Flashfall Sword
THE BOOK OF RUIN was the winner in the SCIENCE FICTION category of the 2020 IndieReader Discovery Awards, where undiscovered talent meets people with the power to make a difference. Following find an interview with author W.G. Hladky. What is the name of the book and...
by William Hladky | Jun 3, 2020 | The Book Of Ruin
THE BOOK OF RUIN, just won the 2020 Indie Reader Discovery Award for Science Fiction. The Indie Reader said this about the book: “War, greed, and political infighting still take center stage in W.G. Hladky’s wonderfully detailed and well researched dystopian novel,...
by William Hladky | Mar 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
In my BOOK OF RUIN science-fantasy series, superflares from the sun inundate the world, crashing electronics. Endless solar storms prevent electrical machinery from being repaired. Humans are thrown into a “medieval” dark age. A magnetic field produced by the...
by William Hladky | Jan 15, 2020 | The Book Of Ruin, The Flashfall Sword
Our uber-technologies have isolated us evermore from the natural ways of our world. Could we today do what the Polynesians did several thousand years ago? Lacking maps, sextants and compasses, they traveled from Asia to Tahiti, Hawaii, Easter Island and finally to New...
by William Hladky | Dec 3, 2019 | The Book Of Ruin, The Flashfall Sword
Invented in 9th century China, black powder was first used in guns. Modern smokeless gunpowder wasn’t discovered until the 19th century. In my first two novels, society has forgotten how to manufacture smokeless gunpowder. Firearms are mostly black-powder...
