On occasion, you know the ending of your story before you start writing. Most other times, you find the path as you go, each twisting turn appearing before you as you continue on your merry […]

Motherhood is a term that has many meanings, and looks a little different for everyone. It is also something that comes with a lot of questions, and though she may not have all the answers, […]

Five funerals may seem like a lot, but this number is actually cut down considerably from author Jeff Somers’ original idea of 26 deaths. Put on your best black tie and follow along the Big […]

This is a review I did for SF Site in 2008. So the opening sentence is much dated — Egan has been publishing regularly for the last couple of decades after a bit of an […]

I was a bit surprised to realize that I haven’t posted here in half a month — but I have a good reason: my new grandson, Sylvester Took Whitman, was born, and my wife and […]

Here’s another SF Site review I’m posting on this blog after the demise of that wonderful site. This review was written in 2000. The UK imprint Millennium is reprinting a number of classic SF novels […]

The big idea behind The Ballad of the Bone Road started out as several small ideas. The names Brix and Bellefeather made their way into my head and struck me as the perfect names for […]

Retro Magazine Review: Astounding, July 1955 Astounding Science Fiction, under the editorship of John W. Campbell, Jr., was the central magazine of the so-called “Golden Age of Science Fiction”, which is typically considered to have […]