Vic Milan has left us... but his words and his work live on, so long as he is being read ( Read more... )

Our writing community here in New Mexico, and the world of SF and fantasy in general, took a blow this afternoon when our friend Victor Milan died after two months of suffering and struggle in a series of Albuquerque hospitals ( Read more... )

I was very saddened to hear of the death of Ursula K. Le Guin, one of the great SF and fantasy writers of the past half century ( Read more... )

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all my friends and readers out there ( Read more... )

Yesterday another birthday came and went ( Read more... )

I've been trying for several days to write something about the death of Len Wein ( Read more... )

So a couple of months ago, while I was out at Stokercon in Long Beach, on the mighty Queen Mary, I went out with Scott Edelman for Thai food (yum), and he recorded our conversation for his EATING THE FANTASTIC podcast ( Read more... )

Last weekend Parris and I drove up to Denver to attend the memorial service for our friend Ed Bryant, who died in February.


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I have posted this before, but it comes to mind every year on Memorial Day and Veteran's Day.

Kipling said it better than I ever could.

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Words to keep in mind.

Last August the hardcover of HIGH STAKES, the most recent Wild Cards mosaic novel, was released by Tor. We launched the book at MidAmericon II in Kansas City with a huge mass signing sponsored by Rainy Day Books. Most (though not all) of the contributors to HIGH STAKES were on hand, but so were a dozen other Wild Cards writers, even those not in ( Read more... )