To celebrate Thor’s retirement, we spent a week on the beautifully lush, oldest Hawaiian island. Thor wanted to see a new place, so off we went to the “Garden Isle,” which fully deserves its name. Appropriate to his retirement after … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: June 2018
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) My very first “theory post” for this series talked about worldbuilding as a habit of thought — something that runs constantly in the background while you write. I’ve also advocated … Continue reading
I read a review of the advice book by that professor who has been working so hard to prove that a white male Canadian academic can be a player in the misogynist olympics. The lines the reviewer quoted from his … Continue reading
This book is hilarious! A group of time travelers steal an entire hotel during a science fiction convention and take it on a trip around space.
Continue readingIt’s all over the Twitter-verse, book lovers! Our very own Linda Nagata, author of The Red: First Light, has won Locus Magazine’s annual Best Short Story award! The winning story is “The Martian Obelisk”, published at Tor.com. Conga-rats are breaking out the party hats in … Continue reading
Recently I flew across the country to attend my younger daughter’s graduation from medical school, so I loaded up my ereader with a few digital ARCs. Here’s what I thought of them. (The usual disclaimer: I received a review copy … Continue reading
Imagine a Venn diagram. The blue circle contains people who might have attended a convention at soem point in their lives and have developed any kind of affection for them and a certain amount of knowledge about the backroom workings … Continue reading
Who is your favorite character of all time? Or better yet, who is in the A list; the Top Ten, for example. All genres are eligible for your list. Literary, science fiction, fantasy, romance, mystery, mainstream, horror, historical anything, classic … Continue reading
As I reflect on my travels in Greece, while working on my novel THE ARIADNE DISCONNECT, I’ll be weaving together threads of thoughts and photos here. I recently reread the consummate Greek tragedy, “Oedipus Rex.” The cautionary tale of Oedipus, … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) Taboos are a complicated concept. In its most watered-down sense, the word can simply mean anything that is forbidden . . . but we don’t normally say, for example, that … Continue reading