Inside the Walls of Fez

Scientists Celebrate Century of Ice Age Fossils Unearthed in La Brea Tar Pits

Why are apes more genetically diverse than we are? - More ancestors?

New Titan Photos Showcase Lakes and Salt-Flats - Home by the sea.

What the Pollen Says - Death by climate change. See, even history is contributing its “facts” and “data” to ( Read more... )

Green, by Jay Lake - A tepid review.

Review: The Year’s Best Science Fiction: Thirtieth Annual Collection, Gardner Dozois, ed. - Includes a nice capsule review of my multiple award-nominated novella, "The Stars Do Not Lie".

Short Story Review Roundup: February - July 2013 - A round-up that includes a positive short review of my short story "The ( Read more... )

Dear woman who shared my flight from LAX to PDX this past Wednesday -

Hello.

I know you expected to board the plane first. You were proudly standing at the front of the First Class/premium status boarding lane when I limped up the economy lane with my cane, Lisa Costello and ( Read more... )

Home. Jet lagged. Weeks behind on email and postal correspondence. (Though I have kept up the bill payments.) Weeks behind on blogging, all the way back to San Diego Comic Con at the least. Since then I have been to JayWake, a very important wedding, about which more anon, and New Zealand. Thousands of photos to sort and upload. Doctors' ( Read more... )

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I've written about social invisibility before, here and here at a minimum. Being at Comic-con while using an electric scooter for 99% of my mobility needs has introduced me personally to another long-standing form of social invisibility: visible disability ( Read more... )

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A picture is worth a thousand words, so here's a novelette about the past two days:


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