“Your client, Shaker Aamer, detainee ISN 239, was recently discovered to be wearing Under Armor briefs and a Speedo bathing suit . . . “Thus begins a letter from Commander [Redacted], inquiring as to whether the lawyer for Mr. Aamer, a Guantanamo detainee, had smuggled him illegal underwear. (Commander [Redacted] has a point. I mean, […]

It’s not a good sign when you open your door and discover three TV news helicopters circling your house.That’s what’s happening outside as I type this.I shall avoid answering the door tonight, lest I be confronted with a 60 Minutes camera crew or the bhoys from Homeland Security . . .

I knew Robert Jordan by his given name, Jim Rigney, though I didn’t know him well. His wife, Harriet McDougal, edited my second Tor book, and when they visited New Mexico in the mid-Eighties, Fred Saberhagen threw them a party. (Thus, in memory, do the dead play host to the dead.) I remember Jim told […]

Greg Frost has been keeping me up to date this week on the world o’ science, and it’s clear that science is becoming more skiffy than ever. First up— annihilation! A team including David Cassidy— who will be played in the movie by David Cassidy— has succeeded in merging di-positronium with ordinary positrons in order […]