pet pictures
Zoë
Yes, our cute little kitten has a name now, Zoë. Here are two obligatory kitten pictures.
rants
But, then, how can you go around freaking the Mundanes?
There is a movement afoot, complete with manifesto, called Mundane SF. You may or may not have heard of it, but it does seem to be gaining a little traction to the point that Interzone is doing a Mundane SF Read more…
Apotheosis Trilogy
Chugging along. . .
I finally feel as if the Hostile Takeover sequel is moving forward reasonably well. This should make Sheila at DAW happy, she’s been waiting for it for an inordinately long time. Wolfbreed aside, I had stalled on the project because Read more…
real life
Toads Go Boom. . .
Ok, this BBC Story is scary and funny at the same time. Thousands of the amphibians have died in recent days in a pond in Hamburg’s Altona district, with their bodies swelling to bursting point. The toads’ entrails are propelled Read more…
Apotheosis Trilogy
Retrocon Ahoy! (Continuity II)
No one is perfect. Sometimes mistakes make it into print. Sometimes huge steaming mistakes get in without anyone noticing until you need to write a sequel and go, “oops how did that happen?” You can probably guess, there’s a goof Read more…
Apotheosis Trilogy
Continuity is a bitch
Everyone gets annoyed when someone flubs the continuity in an ongoing series. Fans will shout, “But that’s not what you all said back in Issue/Episode/Movie #X!” From the outside, it looks simple enough to keep track of established facts of Read more…
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Project Update
Wolfbreed is done, at least until someone buys it and asks for some sort of editorial revision. So I’ve returned to my long belated Hostile Takeover sequel. If you note the counters I’ve been keeping, I’ve removed Wolfbreed and added Read more…
movies
Kirk Lives!
For Star Trek fans who thought James T. should have gone out in more of a blaze of glory… Got this from a thread on The Agony Booth.
movies
Ridley Scott disses SF Film
According to Ridley Scott, SF Cinema is as dead as the Western, and also thinks all SF nowadays is derivative of 2001:A Space Odyssey. Nothing original is being done. . . Say what? Look, I know I’m an iconoclast when Read more…
blatant self-promotion
Fellowship Fantastic
Due in January. Just got the cover: This one contains my story, “The Enigma of the Serbian Scientist.” Which is sort of a steampunk homage to Sherlock Holmes, wherein the murder victim is Thomas Edison. Judging by the description of Read more…