Whenever I hear of a friend or relative — or a stranger, I’m not picky! — in distress, I want to jump in and fix their lives. It’s so much easier dealing with someone else’s problems than my own. I … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Nancy Jane Moore’s story, “Or We Will All Hang Separately,” is now available on Futurismic. Futurismic publishes “near-future science fiction and fact,” and since this story assumes some unpleasant changes in the near future, one hopes it will remain on … Continue reading
One of the great things about movies is that they allow you to come as close as we ever likely will to time travel. And one of the bad things about movies is that they’re never perfect about this; there … Continue reading
I’ve been watching with interest the blog of literary agent Nathan Bransford: http://blog.nathanbransford.com/ . Every Monday he lets people submit the first 250 words of a work in progress. He chooses one at random and critiques it. Out of curiosity, … Continue reading
Continued from Part One i. Influence A long time ago now, discussing my book The Lathe of Heaven, I called it “a homage to Philip K. Dick” (who was then not the culture hero he has become, but a science … Continue reading