Honor/Dishonor

December 12, 2014

John McCain, the only member of the Senate known to have actually been tortured, speaks on the Senate torture report.  I wanted to include this in yesterday’s essay, but ran out of time. “The truth is sometimes a hard pill to swallow,” [Mccain] said, standing at his desk on the Senate floor as Ms. Feinstein […]

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Rogue

December 11, 2014

So the U.S. Senate report on torture shows that it was far worse than I imagined, or I imagine anybody imagined.  We’ve known about the torture for years, of course, but now we know just how depraved and disgusting and totally without merit it was. Consider this: numbers are a little vague, but it appears […]

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Speaking of Watching the Tube . . .

December 7, 2014
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What I Are Watching

December 6, 2014

A few months ago I asked for recommendations about what I should be watching on the tube, and I’m pleased to report that I’m enjoying some of your recommendations. I’m finding “Continuum” pretty darn good, though I think Keira loses points for somehow not noticing that she is a jackbooted enforcer for an illegitimate slaver […]

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Toolbox in the House!

December 2, 2014

December 1 is the first date for applications for Taos Toolbox, the master class for science fiction and fantasy, taught by Nancy Kress, yours truly, and special lecturer Carrie Vaughn. The workshop will take place June 28-July 11, 2015, at the Snow Bear Lodge in beautiful Taos Ski Valley. If you’re serious about a writing career, […]

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Episode Five

December 2, 2014

Part Five of the Hardwired serial is now available at Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Amazon, and Smashwords. Apparently the folks at iBooks are still hung over from the holiday weekend, since I don’t see it there.  It should be there soon, however, possibly by the time you read this. [UPDATE: Here’s your iBooks link.] In Episode […]

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Holiday Tradition

November 27, 2014

It’s a Thanksgiving tradition, apparently, for people in the UK to fill out maps of the US.   Which has happened again this year. They seem pretty good sports about it, too. It seems a little unfair.  We don’t spend our Bank Holiday Weekends trying to identify Old Jersey, Old York, and Old Hampshire. Apparently […]

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Re-Creation

November 26, 2014

So who are these guys that I saw at one of the World War  II museums in Normandy? They wear period uniforms of the Royal Navy, but they would seem to be Japanese hobbyists engaged in some re-creation.

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Remembrance of Kings Past

November 25, 2014

While noodling around on Tor.com after admiring the John Picacio art on my story, I found an essay by the excellent and learnèd Ada Palmer on Shakespeare in the Age of Netflix, with emphasis on BBC’s recent Hollow Crown series, which I recommend as an excellent analysis of the problems of staging (or filming) the plays […]

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Tinting

November 24, 2014

From St.-Malo cathedral, the sun shining through a rose window onto an arch. Pretty, ne?

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