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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

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

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

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.”