I’m currently working on a novella that I’ve been planning for over twenty years.  I think I came up with the idea in the late 1980s. I guess you could say I’m not the fastest writer around. The story is the latest installment in the “Dead Romantics” series, in which I craft science fiction stories […]

There are just a very few places left at Taos Toolbox, this year’s master class for science fiction and fantasy, taught by Nancy Kress, Walter Jon Williams, and special lecturer Jack Skillingstead. If you’re planning to write this kind of thing, your future could be beckoning right this very minute.

The world is going through some staggering changes. As I write this, it looks as if Libya may be in for a long period of civil war, despite its seemingly being pummeled by every country in the world– including Qatar!— which has an air force.  Saudi Arabia has sent armed forces into Bahrain to help […]

It looks like another busy weekend without a lot of opportunity for posting, so while I’m away, please enjoy this latest terpsichorean odyssey (via Gardner).