There are times my subconscious almost scares me. Waking into a new day, I linger for a moment on the shores of the dream sea before I come back to…Continue readingHardhat Zone: Novel in Progress
The last days of a Comic-con I had been hearing distinctive Artoo Detoo chirps and raspberries for a while but I couldn’t quite nail down where they came from –…Continue readingPeople people EVERYWHERE
My first Comic-con: Friday, Day 2 The closer I got to the Convention Center the more surreal the streets became. Pirates. Boba Fetts. Lots of Reys, of different ages and…Continue readingSurrealism in Seattle
My first Comic-con: Day 1 My knowledge of the comic-con phenomenon came from the legends of my tribe, the nerds and the geeks and the science fiction and fantasy people…Continue readingThe geeks and the nerds
Mainstream science fiction has been pretty terrible at populating its worlds with anyone other than straight white dudes, Devon Maloney writes at The Cut.Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, and others wrote…Continue readingFeminist SF, really?
The best SF comedies At io9, Alasdair Wilkins and Charlie Jane Anders picked “The 13 Greatest Science Fiction Comedies Of All Time.” They left out one of my faves, Paul,…Continue readingBest SF comedies?