Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 10, 2012, 8:53 am
Jeff Wayne war of the worlds – eve of the war – YouTube. This is such an excellent recreation of H. G. Wells War of the Worlds.  I have listened to the entire thing, and it matches the book so well.  Eve of the War and Thunderchild are two of my favourite pieces in this
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 10, 2012, 7:30 am
One could only describe it as brunch. The three Vulpine had just sat down to their meal, too late for breakfast and much to early for lunch. While they waited for their food to arrive at the officers’ mess, both Hardy and Clarfax fielded questions from Senia. They explained that their recruitment ...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 9, 2012, 11:55 pm
Act one of Rocket Fox is drawing to a close, with the best part coming this Saturday morning, 6:30 am CST.  The launching of the Nighthawk.  I know, in the above picture there are three aircraft.  That will change thanks to what I’ve done now for this story.  She will have to become one larger
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 9, 2012, 7:30 am
Early morning sunrises on Port Omega were spectacular. Senia Felix just wished that her attitude was a little more cheery to enjoy it. She received the wave early last night that General Gerring was keeping Clarfax and Hardy overnight to work over the specs of a new fighter craft. But they assured S...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 9, 2012, 1:08 am
I’m working on a few things when my brain gets drained of words.  Here are samples of Rocket Fox (Senia Felis) and a logo for this adventure so far. Filed under: Fun, randomness, The Barrow's Revenge Tagged: art, February Writer's Challenge, Lupine Star System, Science fiction
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 8, 2012, 7:30 am
Pau Theta II colony. The term was rather polite considering the entire population of the second largest moon of Vulpinia was working for either the maximum security prison, the reclamation sector that gathered and distributed supplies or the Main Authority which was the policing agency of the sector...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 7, 2012, 4:49 pm

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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 7, 2012, 7:30 am
Captain Wilford Crenshaw walked the length of the deck that lead to the General’s office. It wasn’t hard for him to find, he’d been there many times, including the day General Gerring received her posting. From a junior officer during the Great Lupine Land War to the commanding officer of a Vu...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 6, 2012, 6:35 pm
This is pretty freakin’ amazing! The First Look at Mars’ Ocean. We knew there was water in abundance on Mars, but we never saw its ocean. This is it, as uncovered by strong new evidence found over the course of two years by the MARSIS radar on board ESA’s Mars Express. Before this discovery, s...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 6, 2012, 7:30 am
Major Clarence Pitts stood at the docking entrance as passengers disembarked from one of many shuttles to arrive at the space port that morning. He stood by and watched each individual carefully, knowing the manifests of every single shuttle. A pair of Critainian dignitaries scheduled to meet with A...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 6, 2012, 7:00 am
No words needed for these. Filed under: photos Tagged: space
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 5, 2012, 8:07 pm
Often, when I write, I’ll insert a character voice for each of the characters.  Who sounds just right for each part played in the story.  Which, I did with Rocket Fox.  These are just a few of the characters that have come up for each part of the series.  Naturally, these are some of the
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 5, 2012, 3:38 pm
I just finished writing the scene in Rocket Fox where the Nighthawk is introduced.  I will have to work a bit on the scene to describe the ship a bit more in detail, but I had a piece of music playing and it really made me smile how well it fit for the introduction of
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 5, 2012, 12:05 pm
This popped up when I hit publish for part five of Rocket Fox, and I felt it was very apropos.  No other explanation needed. There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. ~W. Somerset Maugham Filed under: Fun, randomness Tagged: Fiction, quotes, W. Somerset M...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 5, 2012, 12:01 pm
Hardy Maynard placed her duffel bag on the tarmac where all the other parcels and luggage was stored. Clarfax Billings had brought along a small ruck sack, filled to the brim with scientific journals, data pads and other odds and ends, and set his own beside hers. Hardy looked to Clarfax with a smil...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 4, 2012, 10:23 am
Sleep. It was the perfect escape. The only problem was sometimes the dreams evoked images that plagued the waking world. Senia’s dreams, filled with loneliness, a great expanse, nothingness. Not what she had wanted when she began to embark on her dream of becoming a pilot with the Royal Vulpine Ai...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 3, 2012, 12:03 pm
How to Search for Life on Alien Planets | LifesLittleMysteries.com. From the article: Earlier this week, astronomers announced that they had discovered more than 50 new extra-solar planets, and 16 of these alien worlds have been classified as so-called super-Earths. One of the super-Earths, dubbed H...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 3, 2012, 8:16 am
The Royal Vulpine Authority Space Port was more than just a military installation. There was a civilian section of the port that hung in orbit around Vulpinia. Cargo cruisers from the three other planets that held life in the system frequented it quite a bit, bringing with them merchant goods, suppl...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 2, 2012, 7:27 pm
After NASA released the Blue Marble image, it received quite a bit of response.  So much so, they released another, this focusing on the eastern hemisphere.  From NASA’s Flickr: Responding to public demand, NASA scientists created a companion image to the wildly popular ‘Blue Marble’ release...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 2, 2012, 7:03 am
Bounty hunters are a lonely class of individuals. Many are loners, often seen as social outcasts, rarely regarded with any respect, and called upon only when situations were desperate. These were not the things Senia Felix felt she was like. She was very personable, having built a very good relation...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 1, 2012, 8:43 am
The events in this story take place before the events in Swift Fox and the Pirates of the Jackai. To any Vulpine, a chance to serve within the ranks of the Royal Vulpine Authority was a great honour. Many hear the stories of past achievements since they were only kits. These stories are the reason
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Feb 1, 2012, 12:32 am
It all starts tomorrow.  Here’s a look at standard issue equipment that Lt. Senia Felix, Corporal Hardy Maynard and Corporal Clarfax Billings will take with them in this adventure, the prequel to Swift Fox and the Pirates of the Jackai. Filed under: photos, The Barrow's Revenge, Writing Tagged: F...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 31, 2012, 3:47 pm
The title of this week’s quotes is something that came to mind while I began writing it.  I usually will find something humourous when I begin setting up the post for interesting quotes, and in this case the first thing that came to mind was a line from a movie (or it could have been
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 31, 2012, 8:44 am
Tomorrow’s the big day. That’s when the series kicks off with full earnest. So today, here’s another teaser before Rocket Fox and the Great Critainian Library fully kicks off into high gear.  The Royal Vulpine Authority Space Port was more than just a military installation. T...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 30, 2012, 11:13 am
Each and every one of us dreams of what something, anything unknown, might have come to be or to be like.  If any of us has any curiosity to the way things came to being or exploring the unknown, then many of us might have thought of such a thing. This universe we live in
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 28, 2012, 8:56 pm
When I talk about iconic music keeping something alive, I should probably explain a lot more than that.  Music sparks a memory.  Many who’ve read this blog will know that when I write, I write with music playing in the background.  I find it helps.  Lately, everything I’ve ...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 27, 2012, 11:28 am
NASA’s Kepler telescope finds 26 new planets | News | National Post. This is immensely exciting! From a synopsis of the article. Kepler, NASA’s planet-hunting space telescope, has found 11 new planetary systems, including one with five planets all orbiting closer to their parent star t...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 26, 2012, 1:34 pm
Time for Easter Beatings!. Go to the above link to view the conversation.  It starts off with really uniformed, racist garbage. It got me thinking about a conversation I had last night.  All the news we (meaning, here in this part of Canada) hear about are the drug cartels and the killings and thi...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 26, 2012, 11:44 am
Blue Marble: See what NASA calls the ‘most amazing high definition image of Earth’ | News | National Post. I always find images like this extremely drool worthy (I know, maybe the poorest choice of words, but the photos are still amazing).  Hi definition photos of the planet Earth.  Click the ...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 25, 2012, 4:20 pm
How To Capture Awesome Auroras : The Picture Show : NPR. So beautiful and such a great article for photo buffs to take great pictures of the Northern Lights. These bring back quite a few memories from when I was a kid.  We lived on a dairy farm, and had a good number of cattle. 
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 25, 2012, 2:46 pm
A little bit more from the workings of the first series of the Lupine star system.  The scene takes place at one of Vulpine’s oldest airfields, sort of like a World War II airfield in Britain.  The location in the story is near a village called Chattingham, and not far from the town of Warrenshi...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 25, 2012, 9:01 am
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~Martin Luther King Jr. There is a great deal of truth in that statement.  There is a similar quote, by Desmond Tutu, that goes like this.  ”If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 24, 2012, 8:14 am
I’ve been a little obsessed lately.  Not in a bad way, but in a very good way.  The planning of the Rocket Fox series has helped, in a large way, stir my interest in something I hadn’t thought of in a long, long time. I’m obsessed with space. Some might think it’s that vast emptiness
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 23, 2012, 8:05 pm
Needless to say, I’m not the greatest drawing talent in the world.  But, I can make decent layout designs using existing photos and images. Which is what I did for a Rocket Fox wallpaper idea I came up with. Using stills from Star Trek Online and the screenshots of my character in Champion...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 23, 2012, 12:22 pm
February is only a month away, and I’m still doing minor prep work for the new story arc in the Lupine Star System.  Book one of the three books (which ends with Swift Fox) will begin in a little over a week (a week and a day, to be absolutely accurate). The tentative title is
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 21, 2012, 2:45 pm
Or at least the new computer work area.  Here is the pictorial of my work this morning.  No pictures of the demolished cable modem.         Filed under: Life, photos, randomness Tagged: Action figure, books, Captain Canuck, comics, computers, Graphic novel, HeroClix, Tomb Raider
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Jan 21, 2012, 2:18 pm
For a while now, I have wanted to move things around in my living room.  Just for a change of pace.  So, today, I did most of that.  Mainly moving my computer desk and cleaning up my book shelf (which, I realize I need a new one). It gave me the opportunity to move things
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Nov 3, 2011, 8:05 am
Vulpine Interplanetary Protectorate Admiral Tor Clarendale kept his pace even with Chairwoman Aberdeen as he listened to her. There were many in the Lupine System who held little respect for Aberdeen outside the fact she had two Critainian bodyguards. In truth, she liked it that way. It made it much...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Nov 2, 2011, 8:48 am
Vulpine Shipyards, orbiting Pau Theta 1 “No! No no no!” the blue grey Critainian lizard said as he carefully sat down at the table with his mates. “I’ll not hear ‘nother tale, White Fang. No! You an’ I both know that most o’ what comes from your gob is solar trash.” He set down four
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Nov 1, 2011, 9:24 am
Council Chambers, Vulpine Interplanetary Protectorate The chambers were packed, as members, diplomats, and even the curious public watched the proceedings. The Lupine Star System had come against a great threat; Jackai pirates had taken to raiding the shipping lanes that traversed from planet to pla...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Nov 1, 2011, 9:05 am
The change from October’s crisp and colourful month has changed with many things to expect.  One of those being how much closer we are to the winter season (because, it’s still autumn and not winter until December 21).  Remembrance Day is almost here.  Also, Canadians will get to constantly r...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Oct 31, 2011, 6:31 pm
For your Halloween Hauntings and good ghost stories, I have found this link just for you. Jo-Anne Christensen has also put together and wrote Ghost Stories of Saskatchewan and More Ghost Stories of Saskatchewan.  This is the third volume and I believe she is working on a fourth one. There is also a...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Oct 31, 2011, 3:32 pm
As many of you know, I work at a weekly newspaper for a small town.  The area isn’t that large and we don’t have a lot of staff, so we rely on our readership to get some news to us.  We also have community news, which is happenings in and around the different communities in
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Oct 31, 2011, 9:19 am
It may not be a holiday like Christmas or Easter, but it’s still a fun time of year.  We all seem to get a big thrill out of being scared witless.  For this Halloween, a collection of frightfully wonderful things, a potpourri of terror! ZOMBIES DON’T RUN! I know it is absurd to debate the rul...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Oct 30, 2011, 5:21 pm
Today I came to the realization that I had to retire one of my favourite pairs of weekend jeans.  They had holes in them, but they were comfortable and just something I could wear around the house.  I didn’t wear them all summer, because that’s when I wear my shorts around the house on weekend...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Oct 29, 2011, 1:03 pm
I have my own tumblr and often I’ll see pictures crop up on my dash of some skinny white model wearing a Native American warbonnet as some hipster fashion statement.  They aren’t.  The warbonnets actually mean something, and a little research shows exactly what they were used for, and surprisi...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Oct 28, 2011, 1:58 pm
When one thinks of baseball heroics, they often look to names like Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson or Hank Aaron.  Even the stories, whether true or fictitious, are from far off places.  The closest baseball stories come to Saskatchewan would be the Toronto Blue Jays of the early 1990’s, winning back...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Oct 27, 2011, 10:23 pm
This is an expanded explanation of the different races.  Each race has their own unique traits and aspects about them.  In this section, the Lionids. The Lionid race is a group of felinoid type beings that lives on the icy planet Canin, fifth planet in the Lupine Star System.  For the most part, ...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Oct 27, 2011, 9:43 pm
The U.S. State Department is coming under fire for considering a $53 million arms sale. Why? Because since February of this year, the military, security and police forces of the prospective buyer –Bahrain – have used such weapons and military equipment to inflict deaths and injuries on protest...
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Tim Holtorf posted an article on The World of Author Tim Holtorf - Oct 26, 2011, 12:48 pm
Last night was the leaders debate for the upcoming Saskatchewan provincial election.  It was quite lackluster.  So much so, that I found myself longing for the old days with the political landscape in this province. At present, we have two large political factions.  On the right, there is the Sas...
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