I’m commencing my end-of-the-year Taos Toolbox review by bringing to your attention new works by Taos Toolbox veterans. Our writers have been published, won Hugo awards, and are maintaining careers in a changing and challenging field. And let’s not forget that books make excellent last-minute holiday presents! Today’s example: Alien Crossings by Laura F. Sanchez, […]

Taos Toolbox, master class for science fiction and fantasy, is back for 2023! The workshop will be held June 18-July 1, 2023, and will be taught by Nancy Kress and Walter Jon Williams, and with guest speakers George RR Martin and E.M. Tippetts. If you’re looking for a career in this business, Toolbox can help. […]

From Brauron, a relief of Artemis (holding a torch made of bundled reeds) about to receive a group of mortals who intend to sacrifice a bull. Two other goddesses are on the right, but I don’t know their names offhand. The servant on the far left is carrying a large swathed box on her head, […]

A gin gimlet, consumed in the rolling toast to Greg Bear, 4:21pm 26 November. If you’re on the other side of the Date Line, where it’s still the 26th, by all means raise a glass at the appointed hour.