We returned from Kansas City through a big monsoon storm, but once on the ground we were welcomed by what was possibly the brightest rainbow I’ve ever seen.  It was raining and I was in a hurry, so this was the best angle I could find on it. You’ll note a second, fainter rainbow just […]

I’m pleased to report that my first science fiction novel, Ambassador of Progress, is now on sale for a mere 99 cents.  You may find it at Amazon, Google, iBooks, Smashwords, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. Ambassador of Progress is unlike my other SF, in that it’s overtly anthropological science fiction.  I think it’s successful on […]

Good news for any Wild Cards fans out there.  Universal Cable Productions has acquired the Wild Cards series for television.  Longtime Wild Cards writer Melinda Snodgrass will be executive producer, along with Gregory Noveck (REDS, Justice League: the New Frontier). Wild Cards has been a part of our lives since the 1980s, and there are a lot […]

Behold the Harald Hårfagr, or Harald Fairhair for you Anglophones.  This is the  “largest Viking ship built in modern times“— they are careful not to call it a “replica” because it’s not built to the plan of any historical vessel.  It’s arrived in North America after an epic five-week transit of the Atlantic, followed by an […]