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  • Bubonicon 47

    Bubonicon 47 is over.  Now for the post-mortem. Bubonicon 47, that is the 47th running of the Albuquerque Science Fiction Convention, was held August 28-30, 2015.  This was my seventh […]

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  • The God And The Machine

    I watched an interesting movie several weeks ago.  Interesting because of the ending.  The movie was “Absence of Malice,” with Paul Newman and Sally Field.  Newman plays the son of […]

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  • It’s Got To Be “Right”

    Over the past several years, beginning in late 2011, I’ve been sending out queries to literary agents around the country, trying to persuade one of them to take on my […]

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  • Import

    I’m going to stick my neck out here and try and define a characteristic of fiction that is, at least to me, new.  I’ve written a few short stories as […]

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  • Jonas Salk–A Book Review

    I just finished reading Jonas Salk, A Life, by Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs, published in 2015 by Oxford University Press.  Here’s my take on the book and the main character. Jonas Salk […]

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  • The Alien Paradox

    Enrico Fermi is credited with asking the question that forms the basis for “Fermi’s Paradox.”  That is, where are all the aliens?  Why haven’t we been visited here by aliens […]

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  • The Bell-Shaped Curve

    As an unpublished writer, I don’t have the experience of seeing reviews of my books on Amazon or some other web or paper-based site.  Perhaps soon, though.  However, I’ve heard from […]

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  • Hobbies

    Most of the time now, I’m retired from a life of research.  I worked with viruses most of my professional life.  Now I’ve moved on to trying to write science-fiction novels.  […]

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  • Jurassic Park

    There’s a new Jurassic Park movie coming out this summer, and it brings up a question I’ve had percolating in my mind ever since the first Jurassic Park movie was released.  I […]

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  • Pike’s Peak Writers Conference – 2015

    I made my yearly trip to Colorado Springs this past weekend to the Pike’s Peak Writers Conference, and I thought I’d make a few comments about the meeting.  Overall, it […]

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  • Haven’t You Got Something Better To Do?

    I’m a writer.  I specialize in writing fiction, especially science-fiction novels, but I’ve written several short stories, mostly with a sci-fi bent, if not outright.  But fiction by definition is a […]

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  • Treason

    There’s been a lot of talk lately about people doing things that other people have termed “treason” or “treasonous.”  A certain letter was sent to the leaders of Iran.  Was […]

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