This is a very nice review of Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction, my first full-length venture into non-fiction.
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Tonight I took part in a service for Easter week at St Luke’s, “Women of the Cross.” It was a quiet, contemplative hour in a church lit mostly by candlelight, composed of gospel passages, stories and song about the women who also played a role in the events of the passion. The melancholy sound of a solo female voice in the darkened church,“Were you ( Read more... )

Myths, Metaphors, and Science Fiction is now available on the Aqueduct Press website:

http://www.aqueductpress.com/index.php

I've just heard about the passing of Ray Bradbury, not unexpected but a very great loss nevertheless. He was an enormous influence on my writing, and in tribute, I'm going to re-post a piece I wrote about his work for a longer examination of science fiction's debt to metaphor and mythology:

OF MYTH AND MEMORY
Recently, after hearing Ray Bradbury ( Read more... )

The editors of James Gunn's new journal, Ad Astra, have invited me to come to the Campbell Conference at the University of Kansas in July to talk about the paper. (Dates are July 5-7.)

Their acceptance of this article gives me renewed enthusiasm for the whole project which, as many of you know, originated in a series of online blogs on myth, memory ( Read more... )

(I couldn't resist the alliteration!)

James Gunn's new journal, Ad Astra, has just accepted my article, "Fantastic Journeys of the Mythic Kind." It's a 4000 word section from a longer work-in-progress about the intersection of myth, metaphor and science fiction. This section deals with the Hero's Journey and how it gets used in hard sf. We all know ( Read more... )

My wheelchair racer story, "Miles To Go," has just been reprinted in the Borgo Press anthology, Yondering.

And the Mar/Apr issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction that contains my last lingster novella, "The Evening and The Morning" is now available for Kindle.

Meanwhile, I'm sloggin along on this non-fiction project of science fiction's roots in myth. ( Read more... )

I'm working on a longish piece of non-fiction (but not a book!) about science fiction's roots in mythology -- and perhaps, racial memories. Some of the pieces appeared previously as a blog on nebulaawards.com (now gone away) but in shorter form. So far, each essay taking up an archetype or mythic theme is about 1200-1500 words long, and includes ( Read more... )

My latest blog is up at the Nebula Awards site (which has switched locations to the SFWA site):

http://www.sfwa.org/2010/12/nebula-awards-guest-post-sex-skin-and-secret-messages/#more-11692

Today is the first Sunday in Advent -- Christmas is approaching fast -- so I thought it might be appropriate to post a blog that first appeared on the Nebula Awards site (even though it's actually about the events of Epiphany):

On January. 6th, the Christian church celebrates the visit of three kings bearing symbolic gifts to a newborn child in ( Read more... )