Re: On the Banks of the River of Heaven

In Japan, Tanabata is a summer festival, based on a widely varying legend about two lovers who are now stars in the sky, parted by the Milky Way, flowing like a river across the heavens. And who better to carry messages between them than a clever otter? Leaving aside the sad fate of the river […]

Actually, I do have something to say

Despite my completely irrational fear that somehow I will jinx things if I tell you, I’m expecting my little evolutionary Just-So story, “The Tale of Titanosaur’s Tail”, to appear in the fall issue of Spaceports & Spidersilk.

Nothing but a tomato

It’s been a great week to be a growing tomato. Rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain — Hey, the sun is out! Oh my god (yes, I’m spelling it out) look how big that tomato is! It’s at least twice the size of all the others put together. Can I help it if I’m […]

Anything to say?

Nope.

Uh-oh

I’m about to not bother to post tonight.

Re: Morris and the Machine

The reading on Drabblecast of “Morris and the Machine,” by Tim Pratt begins with Morris descending into his basement and locking the door behind him, while his wife Penelope threatens to leave him. I thought it was obvious that the mysterious machine he was working on was a time machine, and that was long before […]

Wild harvest

Poor old Sonny the Sunflower! Somebody knocked him over and chawed his face off. Maybe the raccoons are peeved that the bird feeder is empty at night.

Re: The Fuller Memorandum

Charles Stross is getting to be my go-to guy when I want something quick and trashy to read, like The Fuller Memorandum. This is the third book set in the Laundry, a super-secret British spy agency, tasked to keep computers from unwittingly summoning the Old Ones. Things are explained enough for the book to stand […]

An SF Workshop that has helped me

If you know (or are) a genre writer in the Boston area who’s interested in a writing class, I can recommend the Ultimate SF Workshop. Taught by Jeff A. Carver and Craig Shaw Gardner, the next series will meet weekly for 10 weeks in Arlington, MA, starting this October.

Rain blahs

It’s raining today, but it’s not even interesting rain. It’s just cold and gray enough to drive the cat inside for a lap, so that’s nice. And it makes the pears look like they’re going to be sweet and juicy, so that’s nice. But nice is boring.