My collection, The Green Leopard Plague and Other Stories, is now live on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords. It will be available on other sites by and by. The collection contains two Nebula winners, several other award nominees, and other good stuff that was published in places where award nominators never visit. Those of […]

So the Skunk Works has announced a workable fusion-powered generator by 2017, with a mass industrial rollout by 2027, each unit small enough to sit on a truck and powerful enough to provide electricity for a city of 50-100 thousand people. The Skunk Works, being a highly secret division of Lockheed responsible for technological breakthroughs […]

Since the weather report promised sun, I’ve gone up to the Ski Valley for some face time with Mother Nature.  But the weather report was a trifle, um, optimistic, and my nature time has been kinda drowned out in a fairly literal way. I’ve been indoors a lot. I don’t have much to report, so […]

So I’ve just finished Never Let Me Go, a science fiction novel from Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author of Remains of the Day, etc. A heavy-duty literary author attempting a theme common in genre fiction deserves, I thought, a browse.  After all, Time thought this was the best novel of 2005. I’m not going to make the […]