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Worldbuilding Essay
Is now on Scribd, after being on my website for ages, I made a PDF of it and released it to the world. Plot will follow at some point.
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Aliens and Sexual Politics
There’s an interesting post on the Feminist SF Blog about aliens in Larry Niven’s Known Space series. Essentially it points out how both the Kzinti and the Puppeteers both have what amount to non-sapient females, and how this amounts to Read more…
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Eddie Vader Lego
Everyone’s doing it. . .SF Signal, Big Dumb Object, Whatever. . .. . . so I have to post it too. Eddie Izzard, Lego, Darth Vader. Just to be different, here’s a bonus Eddie Izzard Lego video about movies. (Bet Read more…
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Mary Who?
I recently responded on a thread on Whateveresque about the term “Mary Sue,” its use and misuse and its drift from fanfic circles into more mainstream criticism. To review (for those who didn’t just click and read the Wikipedia link Read more…
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I be Scribd
First off: I’ve added “The Heavens Fall” to my Pixel-Stained Technopeasantry. It originally appeared in the DAW 30th Anniversary Science Fiction Anthology, and was subsequently reprinted in Apex Online. It is a little sf/horror/crime drama. Also, it may be my Read more…
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Psssst, bud, wanna short story?
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…
Apotheosis Trilogy
Inside the front cover
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…
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Random Thoughts
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…
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Time Marches On. . .
. . .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…
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The Internet is a Strange Place
What do you get when you cross muppets with Quentin Tarantino? My favorite parts? Bunsen Honeydew, and the Fraggle Rock characters in the background.