"At the front of the room, Chang had told the Waterbaby to watch his right hand, which now held a small green cube. Its head tracked t...

So.  I watched American Fiction last night, as it was movie night with Mom, and both Rache and I had wanted to see it.  As a writer and auth...

Can sci fi be conservative?   It's typically forward-thinking, after all, because of course it must be.  But does that mean that it must...

When I listen to creatives raising the alarm about artificial intelligence, there's a consistent theme.   Looking at what the LLMs (Chat...

Over the course of the last month, I've not been blogging.  Instead, I've been hammering away on this year's novel.  It's ...

Last night, as I finished up writing a Goodreads review of the really rather marvelous The Hare with Amber Eyes , I counted back out of c...

Last Friday, I took a walk to the bank.  It was a gorgeous day, a little warmer than I'd expected for mid-October. In my pocket was ...

It came in a moment of reflection.  It was a brief meditation over a concept, or rather, a meditation over the interplay between two ways ...

"So who do you think is going to read it?" I get this question, this question about audience, frequently.   As the final ite...

The first edits are back on the Believer's Guide to the Multiverse, and I'm psyched.  First, my editor seems to like it, which is ...

The idea popped into my head the other morning, as things often do when I'm out walking the dog.  It's a potent time of day, that ...

Last year, I rolled into 2011 promising myself that I would do a range of things.  There was the usual weight loss/fitness yearning, of cour...

This morning's Washington Post contained a book review that was somewhat painful.  It was for a book entitled Zone One , by MacArthur Fo...

Today was strikingly gorgeous, one of those days-without-flaw when its hard to do anything other than bask in the Maker's work.   After ...

Two things happened over the last week that caused me to make a change in worship yesterday. Thing Number One: The Sunday before last, I aw...