It’s the first big winter storm in a number of years, and the world is covered with a layer of ice buried under several inches of snow.  It won’t really get above freezing for over a week, so we’re just going to have to get used to involuntary acts of skating. I hate driving under […]

Happy Sir Isaac Newton’s Birthday!   Nature and Nature’s laws lay hid in night: God said, “Let Newton be!” and all was light.

Here are what I suspect are the final two publications for veterans of Taos Toolbox, all published in the last year.  (Unless someone clues me in to a novel I didn’t know about.) First up is the latest from Hugo-winning author Will McIntosh, a YA fable about a group of teens and their infallible lie […]

We are now at #7 of my list of gifts for readers, all written by veterans of Taos Toolbox, the master class for writers of science fiction and fantasy.  (And have I mentioned that all these books were published in 2018?  And these are only the 2018 novels I know about— there may have been more, […]