Filth-Spattered Wretch That You Are

January 16, 2013

You are such an accursed, ungrateful wretch that you will not give a child into training for the maintenance of the gifts of God. You have everything, all of it free of charge; yet you show not a particle of gratitude. Instead you let God’s kingdom and the salvation of people’s souls go to ruin; […]

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Reviews Too Late: Freeing the Slaves

January 16, 2013

Carrie Vaughn suggested on her blog that someone could do a combined review of Lincoln and Django Unchained.   Happy to oblige, Carrie. In brief, Lincoln is a glossy, reverent, beautifully acted dramatization of Lincoln’s attempts to pass the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Django Unchained, on the other hand, is a Tarantino film. I think that […]

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For Your Hand-Helds

January 15, 2013

The Fall and Winter issues of Subterranean Magazine, including my story “The Boolean Gate,” are now available for free download in Epub and Mobi formats. You may now enjoy my Twain/Tesla saga on the electronic reader of your choice. Carry on.

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Cheap Louis

January 10, 2013

This blog gets a lot of spam, but WordPress is exceptionally good about catching it, and so—- luckily— you don’t have to read it.  But I do, because I’m reasonably conscientious about this blog, and I want to make certain that none of you get shut out unfairly. Most of the spam is simply that, spam, […]

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Uncensored!

January 10, 2013

For the first time in history, our friends in Turkey have pretty well done away with censorship of books and other reading material.  Back in July, parliament passed a law that would free all banned works, provided that no court chose to uphold the ban in the meantime.  Apparently no court did, so 23,000 banned […]

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Dumb Ol’ Facts Anyway

January 8, 2013

When I was writing about this kind of thing back in the Eighties, I recall being denounced to my face on a panel at a science fiction convention, by s writer who claimed that the mind-machine interface was just dumb fantasy, because it wasn’t Supported By The Facts— any electrode inserted in the brain would […]

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Decades in the Making!

January 6, 2013

I can quite legitimately say that my new novella, “The Boolean Gate,” was twenty years (or more) in the making.  Not that I was writing it for twenty years, but that I was certainly thinking about it for all that time.  And I knew all the important bits of the plot for all that time. […]

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Your New Year Resolution

December 31, 2012

If you want to be a writer, here’s a New Year resolution for you. “This year I’m going to become a real writer, and to that end, I’m going to apply to Taos Toolbox.”  

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Dive Odyssey (Part Two)

December 29, 2012

Coral Sea memories,continued.  Organized by topic. Breathing.   Always one of those things we divers have to take seriously. It has to be admitted, right off, that my air consumption sort of sucks.  I use up a tank of air quicker than I should— not crucially, horribly, but quickly enough so that it bothers me. […]

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Dive Odyssey (Part One)

December 28, 2012

I was looking through the photos of my dive trip and thought this picture was one of my better efforts  It shows how colorful and diverse underwater life can be, and it was taken at a shallow enough depth that the color  flash.  Most of my photos tend to be on the blue and green […]

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