For the last few days I was involved in graduating a new crop of karate black belts. I always get the warm fuzzies watching them pound each other (and themselves) into hamburger, the more so because, as a judge, I didn’t lose any skin myself. I still feel as if I’m on vacation, for all […]

Thanks to an alert on io9, we present a startling piece of alternate history— the failed pilot for the mid-Sixties TV series Alexander the Great, starring William Shatner as the King of Macedon and Adam West as his henchman Cleander. (Also featured are Joseph Cotton and John Cassavetes, both of whom look embarressed to be […]

I was interviewed for an hour at Utopiales, standing in for GoH Robert Charles Wilson, who was down with la grippe porcine. The audience was tiny at the start, but grew to a gratifying size by the end. A surprising amount of the interview was taken up with the question of why I am not, […]

The brilliant XKCD provides charts showing time and movement of major characters in Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and other classics. I sometimes graphically plot the dramatic movements in my stories using differenly-colored pens, but I’ve never got as elaborate as this.