Blog #25
We take a lot for granted. There’s usually a grocery store within range. If necessary we can ride over in a car. On a highway. Living in...
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Jack McDevitt
- Dec 31, 2018
- 1 min
Blog #24
The arrival of a new year seems to be the time when we are most inclined to talk about what’s coming, what we need to do to make our...
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Jack McDevitt
- Dec 16, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #23
One of the more entertaining historical games we can play is what SF people call alternate reality, or history enthusiasts refer to as...
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Jack McDevitt
- Nov 15, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #22
One of the most common questions asked of writers at science fiction conventions is: “What are your favorite pieces of science fiction?”...
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Jack McDevitt
- Oct 31, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #21
Denver’s MileHiCon celebrated its 50th anniversary two weekends ago by inviting the author GoH’s from the previous cons to join the...
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Jack McDevitt
- Oct 15, 2018
- 2 min
Blog#20
Watching people trying to survive the current rush of hurricanes has been depressing. When we got back home after evacuating Irma last...
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Jack McDevitt
- Sep 30, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #19
Wedding vows, well into this century, still usually required the bride to state that she would “love, honor, and obey her husband, until...
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Jack McDevitt
- Sep 16, 2018
- 1 min
Blog #18
September 16, 2018 Times of stress inevitably signal the value of friends, especially when you have no family within reach. There...
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Jack McDevitt
- Aug 30, 2018
- 1 min
Blog #17
The ultimate science fiction wonder, that our universe is only one in a multiple chain of universes, that it exploded into existence...
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Jack McDevitt
- Aug 16, 2018
- 2 min
Blog#16
The history of the sun that we grew up with was fairly dull, as we all know. Four and a half billion years ago, it was nothing more than...
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Jack McDevitt
- Aug 1, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #15
I’ve always suspected that my passion for science fiction evolved from Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers. My dad took me to the local theater,...
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Jack McDevitt
- Jul 15, 2018
- 1 min
Blog #14
Information regarding a major breakthrough in subatomic physics was released last week. Neutrinos are particles so small that trillions...
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Jack McDevitt
- Jun 30, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #13
It’s been an interesting week for aliens. First we have Oxford University citing research that suggests we are probably alone in the...
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Jack McDevitt
- Jun 17, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #12
Attendees at writing workshops are inclined to argue that the most difficult aspect of putting together a novel is working out the...
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Jack McDevitt
- Jun 3, 2018
- 2 min
Blog 11
I’ve wanted for years to read Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms. I finally got around to it Thursday and am halfway through. As expected,...
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Jack McDevitt
- May 15, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #10
We think of ourselves as an intelligent species. And with good reason. We developed means to reproduce spoken words on paper. We figured...
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Jack McDevitt
- May 1, 2018
- 3 min
Blog #9
Hutch makes her eighth long-form appearance in The Long Sunset. When she showed up in 1995 in The Engines of God, I had no expectation...
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Jack McDevitt
- Apr 15, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #8
There is nothing in a writer’s career that quite matches one’s first appearance in print. For me it was “The Emerson Effect” in the...
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Jack McDevitt
- Apr 5, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #7
I’ll probably finish Gordon Prange’s We Slept At Dawn today. It’s, of course, a history of the Pearl Harbor attack. But it’s much more...
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Jack McDevitt
- Mar 15, 2018
- 2 min
Blog #6
Robert Heinlein once said that a professional writer shouldn’t go back over his work doing rewrites. It’s a waste of time. Submit the...
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