When I was trying to figure out what would actually happen in a Dies The Fire situation, I wondered what the big municipal police departments would do. My initial reaction was that they would stay, try to maintain order in the cities, and get overwhelmed. The more I think about it, the more I question that. I would have to look it up again, but I ( Read more... )

Until a year or two ago I had never seriously thought about writing fan fiction. It seemed pointless and somewhat of an admission of failure of imagination--like saying that you don't have enough imagination to come up with your own characters and settings. Recently I've experimented with some fan fiction: two short stories set in SM Stirling's ( Read more... )