I’m a little late to the party, but I finally got around to seeing Inception on Saturday. A lot of people have been saying it’s the Best Science Fiction Movie Ever, and I’m not going to say they’re wrong -- at least not to their faces, because I don’t want them to form a mob and shoot me full of... read more »
The book, which contains my story “American Banshee,†will be released September 28, but can be preordered from these stores:
Inspired by Nancy Fulda’s post about technology and religion and whether religion plays more of a role in the plot in fantasy (which was in turn inspired by my post linking to discussions of religion in science fiction, which were inspired by my story in Analog, “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Madeâ€), I took a look at my published science... read more »
New blog post: The Maze Runner by James Dashner http://bit.ly/b3tJM7 # Powered by Twitter Tools
I finally got around to reading The Maze Runner by my friend James Dashner. I heard him read the first chapter or two several years ago at CONduit, long before he found a publisher for it, but I had a feeling it would get published. Here’s the basic premise: A young man in an elevator can remember nothing except his... read more »
just had a very fast fast food experience at Del Taco. They called the # for my order being ready before I finished paying and got my #. # Powered by Twitter Tools
Well, it’s become pretty obvious in the last couple of years that our planet is the hottest it’s been in the last century. You can see the spike at the end of the graph there, exceeding the high temperatures in the early-to-mid 1940s. For a while there in the 2000s, even though temperatures were rising, they still weren’t out... read more »
I’ve decided to write a novel set in 1961, about Bela Rigó, a sixty-seven-year-old Hungarian immigrant to the U.S. who wins a Michigan bowling alley in a poker game and thus becomes a business owner for the first time after spending most of his life working for someone else. Then Bela discovers he has a son by a woman... read more »
The August 2010 issue of InterGalactic Medicine Show is now out. The cover story, "Trinity County, CA" by Peter Beagle, is an exciting look at the life of dragon control officers in California, although the word "dragon" never appears in the story. "The Mystery of Miranda" by David Simons is a story I recommended out of the slush, about explorers... read more »
Five years ago, I wrote a short story entitled "Bird-Dropping and Sunday" for the Codex Fairy Tale Contest. It took first place in the contest, so I then set about trying to find a publisher. It took me seventeen submissions over four years. Every other story I've sold, I've sold within the first five submissions. But I... read more »
