• Good Enough To Be Published

    Over the past eighteen years, I’ve written three science fiction novels, each about 125,000 words.  That’s just the word count of each of the manuscripts as they exist today, and doesn’t take […]

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  • The Next Two Hundred Years

    Several weeks ago I chanced to see a Facebook post about some predictions an artist had made in the early 20th Century of what life would be like a hundred […]

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  • A Serious Lack Of Imagination

    I believe there is a serious lack of imagination in science fiction today.  At least in one particular facet of the genre. To illustrate what I’m talking about, let’s take […]

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  • A Trip To The Bookstore

    I usually write these blog posts on Sunday afternoon, after my regular stop at one of the local bookstores in the Albuquerque area.  Today was no exception.  The first thing […]

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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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  • 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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  • The Logical Structure Of Science Fiction

    I write science fiction.  I also read science fiction—the two go hand-in-hand.  Most of the sci-fi I read has been published by well-known publishing houses, and is reasonably good, though […]

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