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I’ve never been a politically oriented person.  I don’t hold politicians in much high regard, and I do as little as I can to have anything to do with them, though […]

Last weekend (August 26-28, 2011) I attended the science fiction conference here in Albuquerque, Bubonicon 43.  This is my third year to attend and they’re always entertaining and informative.  A […]

I’ve been a scientist for quite a while now.  Over fifty screwed-up years.  I guess you could say my life as a scientist started in high school.  About that time I began […]

I was just reminded (a few minutes ago by a post on Facebook by the Sierra Club) of the importance of wilderness to our civilization.  The reminder took the form […]

I’ve noticed that a number of articles and news stories have appeared in recent months about the possibility of life on other planets, including the physics behind the possibility and the […]

A new family moved into the apartment above me last week.  When I moved into my apartment last Fall, I was foolish enough to request a first-floor unit in order to […]

I stopped at the local Borders bookstore this morning.  They’re having a going-out-of-business sale, so I picked up a science fiction novel edited by George R.R. Martin.  (He’s the editor […]

Well, I finally heard from the editor who was looking over the manuscript of my first novel.  Most of the regular readers of this blog are probably aware that I’ve […]

I’m no expert in the art of writing, but I’ve noticed that in many of the things I’ve read over the past several years, whether fiction, nonfiction, how-to articles, whatever (while […]

What’s a book anymore?  If you, like me, spend long hours hunched over a computer keyboard (or a typewriter or a pad of paper), struggling to put words down that […]

I’m going to go out on a limb in this blog and propose something that everybody will almost certainly reject.  I think blogging and self-publishing need some sort of gatekeeper. The explosion in self-publishing […]

As the time approaches for the editor who’s taking a look at my first novel to make his report (I hope it’s either good or bad, not indifferent) I find myself wondering […]