What if We Had Tails?
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.” — Albert Einstein How shortsighted of you, Dr. Einstein, as imagination encircles the cosmos!...
View ArticleElise Stokes’ Cassidy Jones and The Seventh Attendant
Elise Stokes has struck gold again with the third installment of the Cassidy Jones Adventures, Cassidy Jones and the Seventh Attendant. There are a lot of books that I would like my daughters to read,...
View ArticleThe Life, Death, Life (and Death?) of DOMO
I wrote in an earlier post that Dream of Mirror Online (DOMO) was the best MMORPG in the world. That may be true, but let’s qualify that statement a bit and say that it’s the best MMORPG designed for...
View ArticleThe Ins and Outs of Teleportation
The transporters of Star Trek, an iconic staple ever since Scotty first beamed up Kirk, go through a spectrum of forms, limited only by the set designers’ imaginations. This one is from the Intrepid...
View ArticleA List of Planets
Trarsa, showing the eclipse shadow of the nearest moon. For a long time writing The Saga of Banak-Zuur, I kept a running list of planets, other significant place names, people, and important artifacts....
View ArticleSeven Things Wrong with “Doc” Smith’s Bergenholm
The Bergenholm remains a fascinating piece of technology. I intend to write a blog post about the various technologies that have worked their way into science fiction to allow us to reach the distant...
View ArticleAre There Blacks in My Universe?
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine introduced a character that threw me for a loop for a moment: Commander Tuvok. A black Vulcan? Really? But as I thought about it for a few minutes, given the nature of the...
View ArticleBeauty in the Universe
In Korvoros, Timothy Saugers is convinced that Risha Dyrrya is the prettiest girl he’s ever seen. That could be true; she is Hamoni and he’s only seen humans up until that point. In A Hierarchy of...
View ArticleWhy I Haven’t Written for Children
There are a few things that people shouldn’t do unless they can’t help it. Unless they were born to do it. Two of those are writing and teaching, and I am afflicted with both. If you’ve read my...
View ArticleHave Spaceship — Will Travel 1: Peewee in Centerville
If you’ve read any of this blog at all, you know that Robert Heinlein’s Have Space Suit — Will Travel is probably my all-time favorite science fiction book. Those who understand its virtues are...
View ArticleComing Soon – 2016
Yes, I know The White Shamitz was supposed to be out in 2015. It would have been had certain things not happened, most of which you probably don’t want to hear about. The one that might interest you is...
View ArticleWould You Recognize Your Characters?
I mean, if you were walking down the street after leaving the bank, and one of your characters was walking the other way, would you recognize him? Cindy Williams, a lucky shot of Kristy McNichol where...
View ArticleBeware of Ik!
Must be half demon if only half. She’s got a soul darker than the devil himself, and more fire and power, too. Notice how folks are scared to sit too close? … Pretty as an angel and quiet as smoke....
View ArticleChildren with Adult Minds
Here in the early part of December, this year’s National Novel Writing Month, affectionately known as NaNoWriMo to participants, is fresh in my mind. I wrote Ik. Ik first saw the light of the real...
View ArticleSuppose You’re Not You
There have been a lot of jokes based upon the old expression, “I’m not myself today”. If your questionable identity should be any more than simply an adage, you would have to ask, then, who you...
View ArticleWhere is The Humanity Experiment?
The Humanity Experiment was supposed to be out in 2016, wasn’t it? And this is 2017 already, isn’t it? What happened? Well, aside from the usual delays that come about from the vagaries of real life,...
View ArticleA Word on Canonicity
Canonicity may be the most important thing. dictionary.com defines “canon”, as relevant to this post: 3. the body of rules, principles, or standards accepted as axiomatic and universally binding in a...
View ArticleFinal Horizon Approaches
Final Horizon has an unusual history. I had an idea for a space horror novel that I tentatively called Butterflies, a particularly and intentionally deceptive name. But I never wrote it because I...
View ArticleWolfram Alpha: The Sci-FI Writer’s Friend
Any discussion of Wolfram Alpha should start with Wolfram’s flagship and source of dominance in the universe: Mathematica®, upon which I imagine Alpha is built. There are any number of categories of...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....