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...

One of the more entertaining historical games we can play is what SF people call alternate reality, or history enthusiasts refer to as...

One of the most common questions asked of writers at science fiction conventions is: “What are your favorite pieces of science fiction?”...

Denver’s MileHiCon celebrated its 50th anniversary two weekends ago by inviting the author GoH’s from the previous cons to join the...

Watching people trying to survive the current rush of hurricanes has been depressing. When we got back home after evacuating Irma last...

Wedding vows, well into this century, still usually required the bride to state that she would “love, honor, and obey her husband, until...

September 16, 2018 Times of stress inevitably signal the value of friends, especially when you have no family within reach. There...

The ultimate science fiction wonder, that our universe is only one in a multiple chain of universes, that it exploded into existence...

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...

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,...

Information regarding a major breakthrough in subatomic physics was released last week. Neutrinos are particles so small that trillions...

It’s been an interesting week for aliens. First we have Oxford University citing research that suggests we are probably alone in the...

Attendees at writing workshops are inclined to argue that the most difficult aspect of putting together a novel is working out the...

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,...

We think of ourselves as an intelligent species. And with good reason. We developed means to reproduce spoken words on paper. We figured...

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...

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...

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...

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...

During my teaching years, I encountered occasional parents who didn’t approve of my introducing science fiction books into the...