So here we are on a holiday that celebrates the sacrifices and triumphs of our nation’s veterans. All honor to them.Alas, recently declassified information now reveals that both our government and our private sector has once again failed returning veterans. The health care scandal was bad enough, as was the various administration moves to deny […]

“PROVIDENCE, RI—The third-person limited omniscient voice, a narrative mode used to convey a story through the thoughts and senses of a literary character, was reportedly “caught totally off guard” after the main character was unexpectedly killed in the last chapter of the new novel Bertram’s Way. . . “The rest here.

So in New York and in Saratoga I saw and talked to Constance Ash, Tim Holman, Alex Lencicki, Alice Emigh, Saladin Ahmed, Cat Rambo, Oz, Christopher Cevasco, Tim & Serena Powers, Nancy Kress, Geoffrey Jacoby, Joe and Gay Haldeman, Ian Tregillis, Melinda Snodgrass, Kelly Link, Jeremy Lassen, Moebius, Elizabeth Bear, L.E. Modesitt, George RR Martin, […]

So here I am at Pat and Scott’s Halloween party. The party had an Egyptian theme: the conceit is that I am there for the Battle of the Nile. Sage Walker took the picture. I used to throw Halloween parties myself— I was born around the holiday, after all. But then once I got invited […]