I’m very pleased to note the my short-short “I Dreamed You Were a Spaceship” has now been published by Analog. When I say short-short, I mean it fits on two pages. Given that, it probably won’t surprise you if I say that this is a piece that came along pretty much fully formed. It apparently […]
Read More ...Political Correctness: A Moment Defined
A few months back, someone close to me asked if I ever had to be politically correct while I was writing. This person is not political, but when pressed into such conversations is clearly conservative of mindset—though I admit I’m not sure they understand why or, really, what it means. Regardless, this question is tied […]
Read More ...BSQ Publishes “Eyes Flashing Blue and Brown and Green”
Happy to note (only a couple days late this time!) that my story “Eyes Flashing Blue and Brown and Green” has been published in Boundary Shock Quarterly, which is s fun little publication brought out by Blaze Ward. I call BSQ a “fun little publication” because the writers who hang out there are pretty fun, […]
Read More ...Yesterday: A Review
A couple days back, Lisa and I went to see “Yesterday.” When it was finished, Lisa said “I loved that!” and I replied “That might be the most perfect movie ever made.” I admit that last was a little overblown. “Yesterday the movie is not quite in the strata as “Yesterday” the song. It’s a […]
Read More ...Reading
I’ve been struggling (once again) to put the final touches on what I think is the final book of my Stealing the Sun series, so I took a few days and went back to read the last few volumes of the series. We’ll see if that helps. It was a good process in that it […]
Read More ...Vonda McIntyre, Criticism, and Maybe a Bit More
If you follow science fiction, there’s a good chance you know that Vonda McIntyre recently passed, recently meaning this past April. Among many other things, she wrote Dream Snake, a far-reaching piece that won a Hugo and a Nebula. She wrote in the Star Trek universe. She was instrumental in Clarion and mentoring new writers. […]
Read More ...Equal Pay! Equal Pay!
The US women have won another World Cup in front of a packed house and a worldwide audience. Megan Rapino, Alex Morgan. Tea sipping. Science wielding. Standing in statuesque form. Underpaid and kneeling, not going to the bleeping white house. These was the rambunctious group. The group that stood up and said the nation would […]
Read More ...More Portals to Explore!
I’m a little late in this one, but what the heck, right? I’m quite pleased to note that Barbara G. Tarn, a friend of mine, asked me if she could include one of my stories in her portal bundle/anthology, to which I naturally said “yes!” This is fun collection of stories from a fun collection […]
Read More ...New Toy of the Day
So, I ran across the Merriam Webster Time Traveler, which is a database of words sorted by year of first use. I’m sure it’s been around for a bit, but this is the first time I ran into it, so now you get to play around in it, too. This is how I now know […]
Read More ...The Spy Who Walked Into the Cold
If you read “The Spy Who Walked Into the Cold” you’ll understand why I say I wish it wasn’t appearing in the Fiction River: Spies anthology. Kris Rusch, the editor, introduced the piece by saying it “examines a part of the United States that most people don’t know about,” which is something I could well […]
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