One of the news channels last week ran a story about a teacher who was trying to convince her students that they were talented. She had...

The reality is that books help us get through pandemics, but the truth is that, in many ways, they simply help make our lives matter. I...

There aren’t many good things to be said about the Covid virus, but despite all our complaining about hiding in our homes, it did provide...

It’s been a busy year. I spent the first half of it writing Village in the Sky, and the rest of it doing short fiction for Nature,...

We have good news from Baen Books: They are reprinting Going Interstellar in trade paper format this fall. The idea for the book came...

The media have become crowded with claims of UFO sightings, largely by naval aviators and pilots of civilian transport planes. The...

The Constant Circle is a biography of H.L. Mencken, written by a longtime friend, Sara Mayfield. She was also a close friend of Sara...

In 2011 I met Les Johnson, a NASA executive who, if he’d wanted to, could have put together a successful career as a science fiction...

I discovered Henry Mencken when I was in grade school. It was the late forties and I came across an article about him in Life Magazine....

Not So is a book that got lost in my shelves until recently. It’s a collection of popular stories about American history that we’ve all...

During my early years, the only comedy films I knew were Abbott & Costello, the Three Stooges, and Stan & Ollie. They were good at what...

I learned recently to be careful about making general statements. I’d always been impressed by Ernest Hemingway’s writing. I recall a...

A notification arrived yesterday from a longtime friend that blog entries had gone missing over the last few weeks. My first reaction had...

McFarland & Co. has just released Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder, by Joe Sanders, a professor emeritus at Lakeland...

Back when I was about ten years old, we’d arrived in early December and the days were moving slowly on. My mind was filled with upcoming...

Two days ago, we lost a giant. Ben Bova died of a combination of Coronavirus 19, pneumonia, and a stroke. During his long career, he won...

I finished the second draft of Uncharted Territory Friday. Normally, Maureen and I would celebrate by going out for dinner and maybe...

I owe a thank you to the cast and crew of the starship Farragut. The current issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine, Nov-Dec, is...

I was at a Sunday gathering at my Uncle Roy’s home in Philadelphia in 1941 and was struck when everyone suddenly grew quiet. The radio...

Subterranean released A Voice in the Night, a short fiction collection in a limited edition two years ago. It remains available as an...