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Consider – A Review

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on October 11, 2016

Every few years, a doomsday scenario or prophecy comes along touting the end of the world as we know it. Religious leaders gather their devoted to far away compounds while pseudoscience types scare the world with their convictions that this thing or that points to the apocalypse. So far, they’ve all been wrong. Dates have come […]

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Rise of the Storm – A Review

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on September 28, 2016September 28, 2016

In the last few years, much of my non-reading entertainment has been focused on fantasy worlds in one way or another, whether it be the adventures of Bilbo Baggins in the Hobbit movies or the latest season of Game of Thrones. Add to that a bit of gaming with The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim that in itself […]

Writing

One Year of Writing Challenges – Now What?

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on September 12, 2016September 11, 2016

In September, 2015, I discovered the monthly writing challenge on Twitter. The goal seemed simple: write 500 words per day or edit for one hour per day. Since I had just started getting back into writing fiction again after a long hiatus, it seemed like a good way to keep me going. Now, a year […]

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Viral Spark – A Review

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on September 2, 2016September 1, 2016

The future. Unknown, nebulous, uncertain. Movies and books portray everything from utopias and dystopias to the end of the world. In some stories the future is bleak, a cruel fight for survival à la Mad Max. Other stories take us on incredible journeys exploring space and science along the lines of Interstellar. Sometimes, artificial intelligence is […]

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Intervention – A Short Story (updated)

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on August 22, 2016February 17, 2017

Note: the actual story has been added at the end of this post. A few weeks ago, I discovered another site for posting fiction, Upliterate. Although it’s still a bit rough around the edges, I figured I might as well post a few stories that I’ve posted elsewhere and see what comes out of […]

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Firewatch – The Review

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on July 29, 2016

It’s 1989. With your family life in turmoil, you’re looking for an escape, at least for a while. An opportunity to become a fire lookout for a summer in the Wyoming wilderness presents itself and before you know it, you’re looking out over the vast wilderness of Wyoming from a lookout tower. That tower is […]

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Telling A Story With Code

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on July 1, 2016

Writing fiction is in many ways an outlet. It allows the thoughts and ideas that swirl around in your mind all day long. Ideas take a step closer to becoming reality. The lives of fictional figures begin as their adventures are chronicled by the millions of writers out there while worlds are born, from galaxies […]

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Vacation Days – A Short Story

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on June 10, 2016June 11, 2016

Sergeant Jones dropped the memory unit from his armor onto the desk of Doc Barnaby immediately after he return from his most recent mission. “Hey Doc, can you help me out with this thing?” Doc Barnaby, the mission analyst for all of Jones’ missions and those of his squad, looked up from his computer […]

Writing

A Lesson In Writing From A Moose

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on May 20, 2016

With summer fast approaching, the weather has been perfect for spending time outside, whether it be lounging in the sun or going out on a hike. Usually, doing a hike first tends to lead to a lot of sitting around afterwards while sitting down to enjoy the sun first rarely leads to a hike up […]

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Tasting The World of Virtual Reality With Gear VR

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on April 12, 2016

In one way or another, humanity has a tendency to want to escape reality in one way or another. Whether it be something as simple and traditional as a book or a movie, a theater play or a computer game, we like entertainment and we like to suspend reality for just a little while and be […]