(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) It’s all well and good to take an extended tour through all the different corners of stuff your fictional world might contain. But as in the proverb about the elephant … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2020
The question I’ve been asked most is what’s actually happening in Australia? Today I want to give you a report about it because my home town (and I’m back home) is under the biggest fire threat since 2003. I want … Continue reading
It occurred to me some years back that if you were a devoted fan of something – might be anything: music, science fiction, art – it could open the door to a career doing something you loved. So if you … Continue reading
Nancy Jane Moore has sold her novel For the Good of the Realm to Aqueduct Press. The date of publication is not yet set. The book builds on her story “A Mere Scutcheon,” which was inspired by The Three Musketeers. … Continue reading
Gene Wolfe and I had a long and rather odd friendship, beginning in 1991 when I invited him to be special author guest for Chimera 2, a tiny sercon I ran in Chicago. I hit it off pretty well with … Continue reading
My younger daughter, 24 as of last week, came up for a flying visit on her way to a volunteer program she’s doing in upstate California next week. She’s an interesting kid (well, I’d say that anyway, wouldn’t I?) and … Continue reading
We were all so sane and calm and efficient until now. An exemplary people doing amazing things in a terribly trying time. My friend Conor, who visited his parents for Christmas and spent the early part of the year defending … Continue reading
That’s what we did last Saturday—something interesting. For something to be interesting, it doesn’t have to be a happy experience. I think things that one does rarely, or goes through for the first time—like the death of a friend, or … Continue reading
After a break for a drink in the shade, we’re back to finish our tour of the labyrinth! NOTE: Of course, Thor and I had to make another trip to Greece, as he’s fallen as much in love with the islands … Continue reading
(This post is part of my Patreon-supported New Worlds series.) It might seem odd to bundle a discussion of poison in with our exploration of medicine, but as the sixteenth-century Swiss physician known as Paracelsus said, “All things are poison, … Continue reading