Sep 10, 2012

No, that post title is not a directive, that’s the name of a movie I finally ponied up to watch my last night at Wellspring before I passed out. I’d been putting off this movie for a good long while, primarily because I heard about it not long after some nut job shot up a movie theater IRL, and there’s nothing like IRL violence to put you off lazily...

Sep 5, 2012

I was only stumped by one question at WorldCon, and that was posed by Elizabeth Bear at the “Looking Forward to the Post-Apocalyptic World” panel. She asked why someone would choose to write future fiction vs. secondary world fantasy and what the primary differences were, or something to that end. The best I could come up with was, “Well, if I choose to...

Jul 3, 2012

I was reading a well-known science fiction author last night and found myself repeatedly bumped out of the story by all the techno-babble. I’m not averse to techno-babble, mind, it’s just that I didn’t buy that this POV character viewed the world through techno-babble glasses. If you’re staring at a sunset, it’s highly unlikely that you’re thinking...

Jun 27, 2012

Last night I was watching a show about emotions – how people overcome grief and trauma, how depression and happiness shape our lives. The parent of one of the VA Tech students who was killed a few years back said he talked to a nurse who said that the most unnerving part of her experience in responding to the shooting was not triaging the bodies, or...

Because not everything I write is bug and blood and deserts. Well, not all deserts, anyway. From the latest WIP, a short story titled, “Sense of Dark.” ————- Everything that mattered happened in the dark. It was eighteen in the morning, the deepest part of the black, with the promise of dawn another eight hours distant. This...

“Virtuoso” New comic of a steampunk Africa that never was…

Feb 17, 2010

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