Better cover the eyes of the children, because I’m about to write something bad about Disney. Which is that they’re withholding payments from writers from spurious reasons. (Full disclosure: I may be one of these writers.) Twenty or so years ago I wrote a Star Wars tie-in novel called Destiny’s Way. It was published in […]

Around this time of year I’m normally found in the town of Portales, on the Llano Estecado in southeast New Mexico, where I regularly attend the Jack Williamson Lectureship. Due to COVID the Lectureship is being held in cyberspace this year, mostly on Friday, 23 April. The guest speakers are James Patrick Kelly and Hugo-nominated […]

The Best of Walter Jon Williams has received a fine appreciation in SFRevu. Your takeaway: Some writers become superstars from their first book. Others quietly produce book after book of excellent, sometimes even superior, work without gaining the same attention. The latter is true of Walter Jon Williams . . .  as the Introduction by […]

Lately I’ve been watching a lot of French television, particularly the last season of Call My Agent! (Dix Per Cent), a submarine thriller called The Wolf’s Call (Le Chant du Loup), plus episodes of Capitaine Marleau, a whodunit series featuring a kind of gender-flipped Columbo. All this viewing and listening has encouraged a dangerous illusion, […]