So I recently finished reading the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer, and I have a lot of thoughts on it. I’ll do my best to avoid major spoilers, but I’ll probably end up spoiling some of it, so I’ll mark those parts as best as I can. Overall, I can say that it started… Continue reading Thoughts after reading the Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff VanderMeer
Category: Uncategorized
Unpublishing The End of Elysium
This is actually one of my favorite short stories that I’ve ever written. For a while, I was thinking about expanding it into a novel, but while the story has a 4.2 rating on Amazon, I don’t think it hit on with the readers well enough to justify that sort of an investment. Maybe at… Continue reading Unpublishing The End of Elysium
Goodbye, Grandma
Sorry for the radio silence these past few weeks. My grandmother passed away a couple of weeks ago, and we’ve been down in Texas, dealing with family stuff and the funeral. I wrote the following author’s note for my newsletter, and it seemed like something worth sharing on the blog, so I’m posting it here… Continue reading Goodbye, Grandma
February Group Promotions
Permafree Books (All Retailers) Book Funnel Group Promotions
Reading Resolution Update: January
My 2022 reading resolution: Read or DNF every novel that has won a Hugo or a Nebula award, and acquire all the good ones. I had expected to DNF a lot of these books, but I was a little dismayed at how terrible they are. Or rather, how some of them can be so well-written… Continue reading Reading Resolution Update: January
The Evolution of Science Fiction
The 50s: We’re going to SPACE, baby! By the end of the century, space travel will be cheap and we’ll have a permanent base on the Moon, and probably on Mars too. The 60s: We’re going to have a free love future, but relations between the sexes will remain essentially unchanged. Also, communism will win… Continue reading The Evolution of Science Fiction
New Free Short Story: The Promise of King Washington
I’ve got a new short story single out now! This one originally appeared in the anthology Again: Hazardous Imaginings: More Politically Incorrect Science Fiction, and if you read it, I think you’ll see why. It was one of 13 stories (out of more than 200) to receive the highest rating on the review site Tangent… Continue reading New Free Short Story: The Promise of King Washington
Unpublishing The Other Side of Reality
It’s been a good run, but I think it’s time to take this one down. It was always more of a fun side project, a cute little story written more for myself than for anyone else. It’s gotten to the point where I think I have too many free short story singles out, and I… Continue reading Unpublishing The Other Side of Reality
Reading Resolution Update: Before 2022
My 2022 Reading Resolution: Read or DNF every novel that has won a Hugo or a Nebula award, and acquire all the good ones. I was going to keep track of my reading resolution this year by mentioning each book and what I liked or didn’t like about it, why I DNFed it if I… Continue reading Reading Resolution Update: Before 2022
“And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it.”
There was almost a fairy quality to this place, he thought. The far look and the clear air and the feeling of detachment that touched almost on greatness of the spirit. As if this were a special place, one of those special places that each man must seek out for himself, and count himself as… Continue reading “And worst of all, there were even those who never hunted for it.”