Daily Archives: May 2, 2012

New Short Story At Lightspeed Magazine

Are you interested in science fiction? If so, please check out my new short story, “Nightside on Callisto,” at Lightspeed Magazine. It’s available this week for reading online, or you can listen to the podcast. “Nightside on Callisto” is the … Continue reading


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Faith in Fiction 2: Writing Belief Systems

Preacher 1

Screaming from the Pulpit When a writer has an agenda, a particular belief system to promote, an axe to grind, or a point to make, their use of religion can easily become heavy-handed. The literary term for this is didactics. … Continue reading


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Sense of Place

(Crossposted at Hahví.net) Many science fiction and fantasy writers will agree when I say that it’s a lot easier to write about a fictional place, then to put a story in a real world, present-day setting. It’s true that in … Continue reading


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