Author Archives: Adam Oster, Adventure Novelist

As I write this, our household is nearing the moment in which the kids head back to school and my house is finally empty and quiet again for the first time in months. So, here I am, trying to get everything I can done before this delta variant (or any other of the variants) shutsContinue reading “What’s the Matter with Kids These Days?”

I thought I’d share a little bit of old writing for all of you, just to give you an idea of the process I’ve gone through over the years. The following little bit of writing was one of the first things I wrote when trying to work out my ideas for The Legend of BuddyContinue reading “Old Drafts: The Legend of Buddy Hero”

I’m not a big fan of genre fiction. The very idea that fiction is made to fit within little buckets gets me a little itchy. Just the other day I was in a conversation with an author who was looking for books in which the main character is a writer. Like, that was a typeContinue reading “Book Review: Rewired: The Post-Cyberpunk Anthology”

Everyone get excited, it’s another white male here to tell you all about what you should think on abortion! I struggle with abortion. It’s not that I don’t get the whole “my body, my choice” side of things, but that I’m not sure where I sit on the sanctity of life. Or more specifically, whenContinue reading “Murdering Babies”

For the past 18 months, it has felt as though my house has been in a nearly constant state of chaos. Although the kids were going to school four days a week by the end of the last school year, it feels like I’ve spent far too many work days trying to wrestle my kidsContinue reading “The Sound of Silence”

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m incredibly good at downplaying my own work as an artist. While I talk about it quite readily and openly here on my blog, I typically try to avoid discussing it with anyone in person. And when people try to bring it up in conversation, I am oftenContinue reading “Impersonating an Author”

Once the rest of the sweaty and toweled men finished laughing at the Asian delegate’s grandiose statement, he smiled broadly. “How familiar are all of you with the concept of designed diseases?” “This again?” the representative from North America said, groaning loudly as he looked around the room to see if the rest of theContinue reading “Flash Fiction: How to Subjugate Humanity – Part II”

I’m terrible at titles. Both in my blog posts (as can be seen here) and for my creative works. I can spend hours upon hours working on them and never get to the point where I feel like I’ve managed it successfully. How in the world do you possibly come up with a simple phraseContinue reading “A Title for a King”

If there’s one thing I’m most conflicted about in the world of the 21st century, it’s that we keep releasing new versions of the things I absolutely loved when I was a kid. Right now we’re in the midst of waiting for the release of a new Ghostbusters movie, a new He-Man movie, another LittleContinue reading “Video Game Review: Doom (2016)”

Back in March of 2020, when we were first shutting down due to the severity of the impact to our hospitals brought upon us due to the COVID-19 outbreaks, I’ll admit, I felt a little weird. Like, things were shut down. I wasn’t allowed to go anywhere. Suddenly my kids were home 100% of theContinue reading “A Mid-Pandemic Retrospective”