photo by Jerry Bauer
Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 12:51AM The ebook of my 1982 novel The Golden Space, with immortaility as its theme, will be available on September 21, 2017 for only $1.99 at all U.S. retailers for that day only. I'll confess that I wish this novel had received more attention when it first came out in 1982, but it did garner some praise from science fiction masters A.E. van Vogt and Algis Budrys, which I value to this day.
Thursday, August 17, 2017 at 01:33AM ...for various reasons, but John Scalzi touches on a few of them in this piece in the LA Times.
Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 03:29PM Today's climate change news from Nature is here. The damage Trump and his regime inflict on us won't be limited to the U.S.
Pamela Sargent
And now this from tonight's New York Times.
Monday, July 31, 2017 at 12:20PM I haven't posted here for a while, given that being a U.S. citizen these days, in the Age of Trump, is akin to having to live with an abusive spouse you can't escape. (And people in other countries clearly have the same apprehension and fear now dominating the lives of many Americans--for more on that, I recommend this oped from The Observer.) Writing fiction used to offer me a kind of refuge and now that refuge has been breached. Half the time, I feel that writing anything is futile or useless, and the rest of the time I keep thinking that thought-out, serious, analytical, and inspiring writing is more needed than ever.
Timothy Snyder, a historian at Yale, has written a bracing guide to our times, On Tyranny, that is an example of such writing. An interview with Snyder by Sean Illing is here.
Monday, June 12, 2017 at 11:58AM The ebook of my novel The Shore of Women will be available on June 15, 2017 at a special price of $1.99 at U.S. retailers on that day only. Later in June, my alternative history novel Climb the Wind will also be on sale for $1.99 as an ebook from U.S. retailers.