Ben Wilson
Ben Wilson writes military science fiction and dark fantasy. The Postal Marines series follows forgotten marines grinding against a system that would rather use them up than remember their names.
Books
Writing
How Traveller RPG Inspires My Writing
Traveller taught me to build worlds from constraints, not wishes. Jump drives, hex maps, and character creation that can kill you shaped how I write science ...
May at the Desk
A monthly dispatch from Merovex Press. May brought a Blue Angels air show, a Strand novel that ground to a halt over a stubborn character, two reader magnets...
Why Fantasy Keeps Getting Religion Wrong
The clergy became fantasy's new black hats. Three mistakes the genre keeps making with faith, and why belief that holds weight is the live position now.
How Fantasy Authors Hide Real History in Their Worlds
Most fantasy worlds borrow a few names from history and call it done. The harder way is to extract the forces underneath and let them produce a world of thei...
Writing the Silver Lining of Dark Fantasy
Why I'm writing a 16-book dark fantasy series that treats faith as the engine, not the villain. Company of Heretics is dark fantasy with conviction, not nihi...
Why I Wrote a Quartet, Not a Trilogy
Three books satisfy marketing. Four satisfy story. The three-act structure hides a fourth act, and a quartet is the natural series unit.
The Great Fruitcake
Billions of years ago, an infinitely dense fruitcake got lonely and exploded into the universe. A tongue-in-cheek creation myth.
The Shot That Changed Everything
Today marks 250 years since someone fired the shot heard ‘round the world at Lexington Green. I’ve been thinking about that moment while working on my alternative history novel, because understanding what didn’t happen helps me write what might have happened instead. April 19, 1775. British troo...