Pill the First: World Fantasy Award winner Tim Powers has lost his contract with his publisher. Pill the Second: NYT columnist Ross...

Every 1.2 billion years, the sentient beings of the planet Nigel IV rush to Noogle* to ask, "What is happening to the suns and why do my...

Who was Brackett, What Is She? Leigh Brackett was a writer known as the Queen of Space Opera. She was big in Hollywood and wrote the...

White Cat has published my story "Roommates". This is pretty amazing, and not just because I sold a story. Just why it's amazing is ......

Aritifical intelligence. Neural networks. Machine learning. We throw these terms around. We use them interchangeably even though they...

Here's a crazy idea: let's go all the way back to the Battle of Hastings and change the outcome. Yeah, we're talking A.D. 1066. The...

My newest novel is out. Buckingham Runner. I’m sixteen and I’m living in a prison. It’s called Buckingham Palace. I’m Alfred, Prince of...

I've been editing the StarShipSofa podcast for three months and it has proved to be the education in storytelling I had hoped it would...

Some of the terminology will be opaque to non-experts but this is a great explanation of...well, just listen:

I've been appointed editor of the StarShipSofa podcast. My old friend Tony C. Smith couldn't say no when I volunteered. We have a long...

I watched Kingdom of Heaven, a three-hour epic film of the old school. It takes place in the Crusades, featuring hair-raising battle...

"...a lonely outpost to Literature."

Anglish: what the English would be speaking today if the Norman Conquest had never happened.

I was moved profoundly by the Chernobyl miniseries, and I thought this music provided the perfect finale. Vichnaya Pamyat (Eternal...

Once the fledgling United States had acquired the Northwest Territories, Thomas Jefferson's topographical mind had to carve it up...

Genres: I’m drawn to the weird ones. Science fiction, horror, fantasy, and that weird stuff they call weird. But the common element in...