So when did it become okay to write about our tribe? I am prompted to ask this question by reading Among Others, by Jo Walton.  Which is about growing up as an Anglo-Welsh science fiction reader in the 1970s— the sort of person who reads Delany and Heinlein and Plato’s Symposium all at the same […]

Daniel Abraham writes unconventional fantasies like The Long Price Quartet and the Hugo-nominated “Cambist and Lord Iron” (available here in podcast form).  Now he’s launched a new high fantasy series, Dagger and Coin, with its first volume, The Dragon’s Path. The packaging is rather conventional, leading you to believe that this is going to be […]

It’ll be Tax Day in less than a week, and preparing my own 1040 has reminded me that it’s time for another installment of The Writer’s Life. As you will no doubt recall, this is Part Four of a series of posts about my early years as a writer, with my old tax returns supplementing […]

About a year ago I started drinking coffee again. I’d avoided coffee for at least 25 years, and for a very good reason: it made me sick.  If I had coffee— even coffee ice cream— in a few days I’d come down with stomach pains, sometimes very severe, and they’d go on for days.  This […]