Frederick Gero Heimbach
A Brace o' Black Pills in Publishing
Pill the First: World Fantasy Award winner Tim Powers has lost his contract with his publisher. Pill the Second: NYT columnist Ross...
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Apr 102 min
Something Rarer than the Triple Eclipse of Nigel IV
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...
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Jun 14, 20234 min
Brackett Is Best
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...
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Apr 26, 20232 min
31 Rejections
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 ......
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Mar 20, 20234 min
Novel Faces
Aritifical intelligence. Neural networks. Machine learning. We throw these terms around. We use them interchangeably even though they...
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Jan 31, 20233 min
Anglish: Party Like It's 1065
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...
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Jan 7, 20231 min
I'm the Prince of Wales. Help Me.
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...
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Jan 7, 20213 min
Sell Me a Story
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...
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Dec 16, 20201 min
Why Does Choral Music Sound So Good?
Some of the terminology will be opaque to non-experts but this is a great explanation of...well, just listen:
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Dec 1, 20201 min
Call Me Editor
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...
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Nov 1, 20202 min
King of Jerusalem
I watched Kingdom of Heaven, a three-hour epic film of the old school. It takes place in the Crusades, featuring hair-raising battle...
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Oct 14, 20202 min
Putting the "Boo" in Honor Books
"...a lonely outpost to Literature."
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Sep 29, 20202 min
The Battle for Anglish
Anglish: what the English would be speaking today if the Norman Conquest had never happened.
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Sep 16, 20201 min
Eternal Memory
I was moved profoundly by the Chernobyl miniseries, and I thought this music provided the perfect finale. Vichnaya Pamyat (Eternal...
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Sep 10, 20202 min
Thomas Jefferson's Mad Midwest Plan
Once the fledgling United States had acquired the Northwest Territories, Thomas Jefferson's topographical mind had to carve it up...
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Frederick Gero Heimbach
Sep 8, 20202 min
Alternate History's 3 Alternatives
Genres: I’m drawn to the weird ones. Science fiction, horror, fantasy, and that weird stuff they call weird. But the common element in...
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