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As someone interested in science fiction as well as regular science, I tend to watch the news for articles about life on other planets, especially outside our solar system.  The most recent […]

Remember the old television series “Mission Impossible”?  It ran from 1966 to 1973 and featured an ultra-secret team of spies and covert operators who carried out highly sensitive missions for […]

On one of the ubiquitous episodes of Seinfeld that populate late evening television fare, Jerry Seinfeld asks why people would keep books once they’ve read them.  Apparently Jerry either doesn’t read […]

I’ll have to admit right up front that the title of this posting, “The Plausible Impossible,” is a term I didn’t make up, but got it from another source.  But […]

As a beginning writer, I’ve been told frequently and I’ve read many times never to use the passive voice in writing.  (One critic even said it leads to effeminacy and homosexuality.)  It’s […]

I just got back from Bubonicon 45, the science-fiction convention held here in Albuquerque every August.  For those of us interested in science fiction, either reading it or writing it or watching […]

Two of the most common literary devices that science fiction authors use to give their stories a real “science fiction” feel are time travel and faster-than-light travel.  We sci-fi writers do that to get our characters around […]

This past April I attended the Pike’s Peak Writers Conference in Colorado Springs with the main purpose of pitching my science-fiction novel to an agent.  In particular, to a New York […]

Over the past several months we’ve been treated to several movies whose premiere was not what the movie makers wanted it to be.  That is to say, the movie didn’t bring […]

While doing a revision of my first science fiction novel several years ago, I came across a somewhat unusual situation with regard to two very specific English words.  One word, encircled, […]

I’ve been on vacation for the past ten days, and got back on Tuesday, June 25.  Great time.  I took an Amtrak train trip all over the western part of the […]

To me, the only thing more surprising about the current scandal about government spying on US citizens has been the surprise of US citizens about government spying on US citizens.  Of […]