The world is overwhelmed by the Coronavirus to a degree that no other topic is significant. I’m currently reading The Sun Also Rises and ...

My dad took me into center city Philadelphia to the Mastbaum Theater one evening in the mid-1940s to watch “Wonder Man,” a comedy starrin...

Neil DeGrasse Tyson published Letters from an Astrophysicist last year. It’s a collection of questions and comments posed to Tyson by rea...

Mitt Romney made history last week. He is the only senator in U.S. history to vote against party lines to convict an impeached president....

I don’t think I’ve ever met a reader who hasn’t mentioned an inclination, or a flat-out determination to become a science fiction writer....

I just finished Charles Gannon’s Marque of Caine. It’s a wild ride through alternate universes and star systems controlled by a variety o...

Christmas always arrives with intriguing gifts, jigsaw puzzles, communication devices, Eagles sweaters. Most interesting, usually, are bo...

People ask: “Where do you get your ideas for science fiction stories?” Harlan Ellison’s famous answer was ‘Sheboygan.’ I suspect, if Harl...

Why You Say It, by Webb Garrison, is an intriguing collection of why certain phrases have taken hold in our language. For example, the te...

The most common question that comes up at workshops is how can I know whether I have enough skill to write professionally? The answer is ...

One of the advantages writers experience, one that people generally don’t hear about, is that publishers and other writers send them a lo...

There’s evidence that what we make of our lives is largely determined by where we are born and grow up. We are all influenced by our envi...

Readers with writing ambitions frequently ask about the common mistakes they might make. What are the most frequent errors made by someon...

Recently I posted a statement that Midnight in Paris was the best time-travel film I’d ever seen. A week or so ago I saw The Final Countd...