As a sort of belated holiday gift, I’ve made my Nebula-winning story “Daddy’s World” available free at Smashwords. It’s $0.99 at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.  I wanted to give it away free, but they insisted I had to charge something. Either way, it’s a bargain.  Enjoy!  

Carrie Vaughn suggested on her blog that someone could do a combined review of Lincoln and Django Unchained.   Happy to oblige, Carrie. In brief, Lincoln is a glossy, reverent, beautifully acted dramatization of Lincoln’s attempts to pass the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Django Unchained, on the other hand, is a Tarantino film. I think that […]

This blog gets a lot of spam, but WordPress is exceptionally good about catching it, and so—- luckily— you don’t have to read it.  But I do, because I’m reasonably conscientious about this blog, and I want to make certain that none of you get shut out unfairly. Most of the spam is simply that, spam, […]

When I was writing about this kind of thing back in the Eighties, I recall being denounced to my face on a panel at a science fiction convention, by s writer who claimed that the mind-machine interface was just dumb fantasy, because it wasn’t Supported By The Facts— any electrode inserted in the brain would […]