For the curious reader of science fiction (scifi) and fantasy
Last weekend, my daughter Lexi graduated from high school! Huzzah! In all the last year of getting ready to send her off to college, it only very recently hit me that she was about to be a high school graduate. … Read More
I know it’s been a long time since my last post. That’s because I’ve been dug in, finishing the final (I hope!) editorial revisions on Sunborn, my new novel, due out from Tor Books in about a year. Man, what … Read More
New Scientist has a bunch of interesting mini-articles in today’s newsletter. And if you follow these links, you’ll see a lot of other interesting articles listed in the sidebars. Take a few minutes to browse; there’s some cool stuff. Here’s … Read More
I returned a few days ago from the New England Young Writers Conference at the Bread Loaf campus of Middlebury College, in Vermont. It was a wonderful experience, just as it was last year. Approximately 200 high school students and … Read More
Okay, just one more entry before I head off! This image of a 2.6-million light-year-wide ring of dark matter, surrounding a cluster of galaxies, is too incredible to pass up. To see a gorgeous, full-sized image of it, look to … Read More
(As Lt. Columbo would say.) This will probably be my last entry before heading off to the N.E. Young Writers Conference at Breadloaf. One of the things I’ve been doing in preparation is adding to a list I’ve sort of … Read More
As I’ve mentioned before (but for the benefit of any new readers who may have found us here), I’m doing final revisions now on Sunborn, the long-delayed fourth novel in the Chaos Chronicles series. I think I’ve got the hardest … Read More