Episode Three of the Hardwired serial is now live at iBooks, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, and Smashwords. If you have the first two installments, you’ll want this one! Episode Three comes with special bonus content, an essay explaining why the term “panzerboy” has to do with Belgian butter smugglers.

Here’s the Strati, the first car created by a 3D printer. Well, except for the mechanical bits.  The parts that actually make it drive an’ stuff.  The parts that make it an actual car.  Those aren’t printed, those are manufactured elsewhere. But still.  Pretty, no? In the old days, people would buy a frame and engine, […]

The second night opened with Oumar Konaté from Mali.  He’s something of the spokesman for his generation, those who watched their republic overthrown by a military government that was so inept that it promptly handed half the country to a guerrilla army of Islamist fanatics. Within days.  If a military government can’t even do military well […]

A brief announcement before I get to the actual subject of this post.  Angel Station and The Rift are now available on iBooks.  There had been some kind of technical issue with Smashwords until I got my very own iBooks account, and now the technical issues don’t exist.  Nothing like do-it-yourself.  The Green Leopard Plague and Other […]