A bit of news: I’ll be at Comic Con in St. Louis, March 22-24—a couple weeks away!—both working the Left Bank Books booth and signing my own work there. (Since I’m actually, you know, working for Left Bank Books, I’ll … Continue reading
Yeah, I was goofing off this morning, trying to find a way into a rewrite, and needing to distract myself from overthinking it. So I redid my header (see above). It’s the same NASA image I had up before…only different. … Continue reading
January is nearing its end. How’d that happen? I thought… Anyway, I put a new review up over at My Other Blog, the Proximal Eye, about Joe Haldeman’s latest. Right now, though, I’m reading Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell, which … Continue reading
I should be writing fiction instead of writing about it, but I must continue my year-end summations. I’m off tomorrow, so I intend to get down to serious stuff. Anyway, I read some pretty good novels this past year. Much … Continue reading
Daylight. Vast dome of god-magma, spare us! (Whew!) That was close. Had we chosen a different calendar, things might have gone differently. The Great Cycle, though, has been completed and now, we stand upon the apron of a new … Continue reading
This week at Left Bank Books, as December begins and Christmas is upon us, a number of books—Staff Picks (all of us have them, please check out the list)—are being offered at discount for on-line purchase. For Wednesday, the 5th, … Continue reading
Okay, I’m going to be a bit less here for a while. For one thing, I think I’m fairly toasted from the election season. My blood pressure hasn’t been this consistently tasked since, I don’t know. And the aftermath has … Continue reading
This past weekend I attended our local convention, Archon. It’s a St. Louis convention that’s not actually in St. Louis, for many reasons too convoluted to go into here, and this one was number 36. Which means, with a couple … Continue reading
This weekend I’ll be attending the local science fiction convention, Archon. I’ve only missed a couple of these since 1982, when Donna and I went to out very first SF convention, Archon 6. Stephen King was guest of honor and … Continue reading
I recently read (reread) Leigh Brackett’s 1955 novel, The Long Tomorrow. In a nutshell, this is a thoroughly underappreciated classic that ought to have the same attention and regard as other social commentary novels of around that period. Given the … Continue reading