Jack McDevittAug 30, 20212 minBlog #84One 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...
Jack McDevittAug 4, 20212 minBlog #82 Part IIThe 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...
Jack McDevittAug 1, 20212 minBlog #82There 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...
Jack McDevittJul 13, 20212 minBlog #81It’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,...
Jack McDevittJun 30, 20211 minBlog #80We have good news from Baen Books: They are reprinting Going Interstellar in trade paper format this fall. The idea for the book came...
Jack McDevittJun 14, 20211 minBlog #79The media have become crowded with claims of UFO sightings, largely by naval aviators and pilots of civilian transport planes. The...
Jack McDevittMay 29, 20211 minBlog #78The Constant Circle is a biography of H.L. Mencken, written by a longtime friend, Sara Mayfield. She was also a close friend of Sara...
Jack McDevittMay 16, 20212 minBlog #77In 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...
Jack McDevittMay 3, 20212 minBlog #76I 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....
Jack McDevittApr 16, 20212 minBlog #75Not 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...
Jack McDevittApr 3, 20212 minBlog#74During my early years, the only comedy films I knew were Abbott & Costello, the Three Stooges, and Stan & Ollie. They were good at what...
Jack McDevittMar 15, 20213 minBlog #73I learned recently to be careful about making general statements. I’d always been impressed by Ernest Hemingway’s writing. I recall a...
Jack McDevittMar 4, 20213 minBlog #72A notification arrived yesterday from a longtime friend that blog entries had gone missing over the last few weeks. My first reaction had...
Jack McDevittJan 21, 20212 minBlog #71McFarland & Co. has just released Michael Bishop and the Persistence of Wonder, by Joe Sanders, a professor emeritus at Lakeland...
Jack McDevittJan 1, 20211 minBlog#70Back 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...
Jack McDevittDec 2, 20201 minBlog #69Two 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...
Jack McDevittNov 14, 20203 minBlog #68I finished the second draft of Uncharted Territory Friday. Normally, Maureen and I would celebrate by going out for dinner and maybe...
Jack McDevittOct 29, 20201 minBlog #67I 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...
Jack McDevittOct 12, 20202 minBlog #66I 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...
Jack McDevittSep 29, 20201 minBlog #65Subterranean released A Voice in the Night, a short fiction collection in a limited edition two years ago. It remains available as an...