Kings and Kings

September 4, 2016

Went off to “the historic” El Rey theater last night to see the Gipsy Kings.  (I won’t claim to have actually heard them.) I’m aware of the claim that rumba-flamenca is merely flamenco-lite, and I don’t care.   I like me that Afro-Peruvian-Aragonese-Andalucian-Havana-Provençal sound, so sue me. So I went to The King (El Rey) to […]

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Reviews in the Nick of Time: Stranger Things

September 3, 2016

Netflix’s Stranger Things has been widely appreciated for its deft appropriation of 1980s film and music (much of which is actually Seventies film and music, but nevermind), and one acquaintance of mine called it “the movie that Stephen King and Steven Spielberg never made.” I understand that people might enjoy a series that sort of name-checks […]

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Free Books!

August 30, 2016

I have some advanced reading copies of Impersonations, my new novel, and I’m happy to give them away to eager readers. So I’ll be running a contest, but the contest will be available only to readers of my newsletter. So if you want the books, you should sign up.  And even if you lose the contest, […]

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Days of Romping About

August 26, 2016

I’ll be spending this weekend romping about Bubonicon 48, New Mexico’s plague-friendly science fiction convention, which means I’m unlikely to be posting here.  You, however, are welcome to join me at the convention, which is scheduled to be awesome. In the meantime, please remember that my 99-cent sale on Ambassador of Progress still has a few […]

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Thoughtful Question

August 24, 2016

I had a lovely Worldcon, held in Kansas City, a town which I’ve always found congenial.  The event was full of friends, many of whom I don’t get to see nearly often enough, and the days and nights were full of bustle, chat, drinks, and fun. I also got to eat some really good steaks, which you […]

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Homebow

August 23, 2016

We returned from Kansas City through a big monsoon storm, but once on the ground we were welcomed by what was possibly the brightest rainbow I’ve ever seen.  It was raining and I was in a hurry, so this was the best angle I could find on it. You’ll note a second, fainter rainbow just […]

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I Am At The Worldcon

August 17, 2016

I am in Kansas City, at the 74th World Science Fiction Convention. If you’re in town, come say hi at any of the following events: Science Fiction as Epic Thursday 13:00 – 14:00, 3501F (Kansas City Convention Center) Often science fiction that is epic in nature is dismissed as “space opera,” but science fiction can […]

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Progress

August 15, 2016

I’m pleased to report that my first science fiction novel, Ambassador of Progress, is now on sale for a mere 99 cents.  You may find it at Amazon, Google, iBooks, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. Ambassador of Progress is unlike my other SF, in that it’s overtly anthropological science fiction.  I think it’s successful on […]

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What Rough Beast . . . ?

August 12, 2016

Oh noooo!  What insidious monster do we see sneaking up on the Pride of Baltimore? Why it’s the World’s Largest Rubber Duck, created by the Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman!  Which floats 61 feet tall and weighs 11 tons. Apparently that’s big enough to count as a Tall Ship. It would be fun to motor around on […]

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Aces Onscreen

August 10, 2016

Good news for any Wild Cards fans out there.  Universal Cable Productions has acquired the Wild Cards series for television.  Longtime Wild Cards writer Melinda Snodgrass will be executive producer, along with Gregory Noveck (REDS, Justice League: the New Frontier). Wild Cards has been a part of our lives since the 1980s, and there are a lot […]

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