Stars and Sleeping by the Colorado River
It’s been a little more than a week since my friends and I came out of the Grand Canyon. But I still wake up at night looking for the stars. Many of us wake...
Latest Writings Blog
The HUGO Voter Packet: Why would you NOT do this?
The 2012 Hugos  are awards for excellence in the field of science fiction and fantasy. The Hugos are awarded each year by the World Science Fiction Society, at the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon). This year...
bookrev: A Dark and Hungry God Arises: The Gap into Power by Stephen R. Donaldson
Book 3 of The Gap Cycle The classification of “space opera”can be interpreted in many ways: a soap opera in space; large-scale adventures in space whose outcome is global (or space wide) in affect;...
Won ARC of Sly Mongoose by Tobias Buckell
Matt at Variety of Words had a contest to give away an Advanced Reader Copy of Tobias Buckell’s upcoming novel, Sly Mongoose. Matt started my memorial day weekend off right by emailing me this...
bookrev: Positively Fifth Street by James McManus (just in time for the WSOP)
5 stars: Well written trip through the 2000 WSOP and the Vegas trial of the century. And, yes, I filed it under Philosophy…cause it’s Poker! James McManus (fiction author, sports journalist and sometime poker...