Why I Write (and Read) Short Stories.
“Short stories are like paper planes—light, quick to launch, and sometimes, they soar higher than you’d ever expect. They’re small vessels that carry big ideas.”
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Where has all the science fiction gone?
I do read in genres outside SF, especially when I’m in the midst of writing SF. But I’d prefer a good space opera on my screen—book, TV series or movie—any day of the week. Except, lately, they’re getting hard to come by. Amazing Stories has been reporting for several weeks on the growing penetration of
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5 Ways to Find More Time to Read More
If you love stories, then finding more time to appreciate them is a good thing. Stories have been around for as long as man has walked upright. They began as spoken tales, that taught us how to survive. So Paleo Bob’s story around the campfire, “This time my mate was eaten by a tiger and
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A Hack to Enjoy Reading Again
Has it been a while since you were really bitten, hog-tied and spell-bound by a book? Do most books you read these days seem okay, but not super-duper fantastic the way they used to be even five years ago? I can help you change that. We’re Too Busy These days. I grew up in Australia,
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Age as a state of mind
To stay young requires unceasing cultivation of the ability to unlearn old falsehoods. Robert A. Heinlein – The Notebook of Lazarus Long We’ve all heard the expression “set in their ways” – which is the other side of the coin to Heinlein’s observation. There’s growing scientific evidence that “age” is a state of mind far
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The Last Book in the Imperial Hammer series is now out
The last book in a series is always difficult to write, in one respect, because there is a lot of wrapping up to do. Plus the story has to be, well, worth the effort of reading all the books that led up to it. And the same time, the last book in a series is
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What Makes A Book A Book?
I confused the hell out of the readers of my novels under a different pen name recently, when I released what I was properly calling a novelette. Those readers were confused over book lengths and what makes a book a book, or a novel a novel. They didn’t know what to think about a novelette.
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Care Not What the Neighbors Think
What are the facts? Again and again and again-what are the facts? Shun wishful thinking, ignore divine revelation, forget what “the stars foretell,” avoid opinion, care not what the neighbors think, never mind the unguessable “verdict of history”–what are the facts, and to how many decimal places? You pilot always into an unknown future; facts
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HUGO AND NEBULA BALLOTS ARE OPEN.
This year, I’ve been inundated with emails and blog posts from SF & F authors, magazines, publishers and other organizations, reminding me that the balloting is open for both the Hugo Awards and the Nebulas. This actually isn’t news to me, and I’m sure it isn’t for you, but what I do like about these
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Quick! Who Manufactures The Greatest Number of Tires In the World?
If the image didn’t give it away for you, let me surprise you: Lego® creates more tires every year than any other company in the world. The Guinness Book of World Records says so. Although if they keep producing sets like the Millennium Falcon (which my brother in law built and has sitting on his dining room
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