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This may not be my own invention, but I’ve never seen any concept like it in all the study of writing I’ve done over the past fifteen years or so, […]

Most of you who read this blog know that I write science fiction, and that includes short stories as well as novels.  Many of my stories involve aliens that either come […]

For this week’s post, I want to return to a favorite topic of mine, the presence of life in the rest of our galaxy: where is it? On the one hand, […]

The face of publishing is changing.  At least that’s what they tell me.  As an unpublished author I guess I don’t have much say in how things change or stay […]

I just returned from the 2013 Pikes Peak Writers Conference.  (Here’s a question for trivia lovers: Why is the name is spelled Pikes Peak?  Shouldn’t it be Pike’s?)  Great place to go for […]

I finished reading Michio Kaku’s book, Physics of the Future, a few days ago, and I thought I’d make a few comments on it here.  Dr. Kaku, a theoretical physicist by […]

I’m reading a memoir right now.  I don’t normally read memoir or biography anymore, at least not in the past thirty years or so.  But the book I’m reading is a […]

Science fiction likes to work on huge scales.  And with few resources.  One common theme I’ve noticed that runs through many science fiction novels and short stories is the idea of […]

I was in a bookstore a few days ago, browsing in the Science and Nature section, which is right next to the science fiction area, and when I finished I […]

A lot has been made of evolution in the past hundred and fifty years or so, but I got to wondering what’s likely to happen in the future.  What will humans look […]

One day last week I read an online article about writers who send queries to literary agents and get only a rejection letter in return.  The article gave several stock phrases […]

What is a blog, anyway?  Sure, the term evolved from the concept of the “web log,” the idea that someone would put their thoughts down on a computer screen and […]