Categories: Fiction, G.R.I.P.E., Gramarye, Other fiction, Rogue Wizard, Saint Vidicon, Starship Troupers, Wizard in Rhyme
Why I Wrote "Warlock in Spite of Himself"
April 17th, 2012 Now and then, people ask me how and why I wrote The Warlock in Spite of Himself. The easy answer, of course, is that I was the new boy in town in Lincoln, Nebraska with no friends yet, so to fill time, I sat in the Student Union and draft… more »
Why I Wrote "The Asteriod War"
February 13th, 2012
Eons ago, back in college, I had a part-time summer job at our local educational TV production center, screening TV shows that had been sent to other stations to be broadcast, then returned, so we could clean them and see if they had too many scratche… more »
Russian Volgacon '91, part 3
July 26th, 2011
Now, as you might guess from Ortho's logo, I'm a coffee addict. The
Russians drink coffee only rarely; instead, they drink tea—by the glass,
and they have special holders for hot tea glasses. My hosts asked
me what… more »
Meeting the Dead Dog
September 28th, 2010As most convention-goers know, the ?dead dog? party is a gathering of the con committee and volunteers after the convention is over. When I went to New Mexico, I met the dead dog, and am happy to report that he was alive and well, vigorous and very frie… more »
Where science fiction Came From
August 16th, 2010Where Science Fiction Cane From
(Only my personal ideas, of course).
As Sam Moskowitz has shown us, the genre goes back at least to Lucien of Samos?s account of a trip to the moon, circa, 150 AD, but the Odyssey pushes the genre back a few hundred y… more »