Ultimate Kudos: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and deservedly so World War II has always held a fascination for me: the global scale, the impact on world politics and powers of today, the coming...
As a music spectacle, it was pretty spectacular. But as a rallying cry and mustering of political might, I question if Live Earth actually made things better or worse. These types of “benefit concerts”...
Shaun Farrell has an excellent podcast called Adventures in SciFi Publishing. He has had many of my favorite authors on his podcast, has editors and publishers as well. It is well executed and quite...
Maybe it’s because it is getting awfully close to 100 degrees in Texas. Maybe it’s because of the 40 days of rain. Whatever the reason, my family and I are hooked on Ice Road...
Rice University here in Houston announced an interesting research project and technology called “OsteoConduct: Musculo-Skeletal Conduction for Secure Data Communication“, transferring sound waves through bones. The project is has been awarded funding from Microsoft...
5 stars: Couldn’t put it down, and it made me go look up Calabi-Yau I’ve been working hard to read a lot of the ARC’s I received at Book Expo America and have read...
Tried really, really hard to love it, almost succeeded…maybe my expectations were too high from The Traveler Please note that the copy of this novel reviewed is an “Advanced Reading Copy” that I received...
This months Global Intelligencer features an article I penned on Quantum Computing, constrasting its development with that of classical computing as we have known it. I am working on a much longer article, but...
John DeNardo at SF Signal just posted a nice review of my novel, Dusk Before the Dawn. You can read it here and make sure and leave John lots of comments…he likes that a...
An excellent example of martial arts fiction Most readers (or watchers of movies/TV) have preconceived notions about martial arts: it’s violent (UFC, Pride); it’s hokey (chop suey martial arts movies with bad sound tracks);...
