Well, I’m starting a little experiment here. I am going to start releasing some of my short stories under a creative commons license. I’m a little bit of a latecomer to this, and I’m not Cory Doctrow or Rudy Rucker, Read more…
Well, I am just about halfway done with the first draft of Apotheosis: Prophets. I have reached a point where I am willing to hazard a prediction. You know most books, in addition to the (usually badly written) back cover Read more…
There’s a cottage industry out there for various random plot/name/whatever generators out there on the interweb. Want a plot? A title? How’s bout a name for one of your characters? Maybe you need the whole story? Working on a TV Read more…
. . .and provides an example of a point I was making over ten years ago. You may or may not have visited my home page, which predates this blog by about a dozen years or so, if you have, Read more…
What do you get when you cross muppets with Quentin Tarantino? My favorite parts? Bunsen Honeydew, and the Fraggle Rock characters in the background.
I added a new little feature to the blog here. In the lower right there’s now a widget that’s keeping track of writing posts I flag on RSS feeds I’m subscribing to with Google Reader. Google Reader not only lets Read more…
L. E. Modesitt, Jr. wrote a long post on his blog on why he believes the singularity won’t happen. [via SF Signal] According to Modesitt, it won’t happen because such visions are based on technology, not on humanity and they’re Read more…
Working on Apotheosis (going well, thank you for asking) I’ve found myself digging in my old notes for Hostile Takeover. And I found a little sketch I made of the character Flower, when I was figuring out what the Volerans Read more…
There seems to be two main “movements” in science fiction (and I’m talking about science fiction, not the broader speculative fiction/fantasy etc.) at this point in time. Both were mentioned in the editorial in the October ’07 issue of Asimov’s. Read more…