Since when did Seattle become hot and muggy? Oh right, global climate change ( Read more... )

I've been working lately to get some of my previously published stories online in ebook form, and last night, TOY SOLDIERS, a novella-length science fiction work went live as a Kindle exclusive. This tale originally appeared in the anthology, FUTURE WARS, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff in 2003. It is also included in my Yard Dog ( Read more... )

What horrible news to wake up to. It's all over the internet, of course, and ( Read more... )

Bryan Thomas Schmidt, writer and blogger has posted a new interview with me at his blog, "Grasping at the Wind." http://www.facebook.com/l/

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Recently, as part of the New Year festivities, I posted a link to Robert Heinlein's predictions for the year 2000. The link was to 109.com, but the predictions originally appeared in the February 1952 issue of GALAXY MAGAZINE. They were also reprinted and revisited by Heinlein at several points in his career. The link is here ( Read more... )

I'm not in a mood for a long post on this, but word is spreading that Marty Greenberg -- that's Martin H. Greenberg -- has lost his long fight with cancer today. I'm very saddened. Marty was a good friend to many writers, and I count myself among them. I sold quite a lot of stories to Marty and his Tekno Books team, including some of my very ( Read more... )

This is a tale of a time at the University of Kansas when a group called the KU Science Fiction Club sprang into being. The year was 1976, and MidAmericon, the 1976 World Science Fiction Convention, had just taken place. Kansas City had become a hotbed of fan activity, and groups had sprung up all around our region. Lawrence, Kansas, was ( Read more... )

It's been a long day of writing work. Heart-breaking work, in some ways. A trio of my earliest stories were typed on an actual typewriter and never onto any kind of computer storage. But a new project necessitated that those stories be digitized and made available as scans. So the heart-breaking part - ripping up old paperbacks and tearing the ( Read more... )

Quite a few fans are aware of Bob Tucker's long-running and legendary fanzine, LE ZOMBIE, but far fewer are familiar with his concommitat fan production, THE BLOOMINGTON NEWSLETTER, which he published from his home from December, 1945 through Spring, 1953, for a total of 29 issues. In 2001, the Milennium Philcon (worldcon) awarded THE SCIENCE ( Read more... )