Notes on "Digger Man" and the Ringerra Mosaic in progress
Ever since I began work on Endgame (and, later, the Woman at War / Triestarra Nebula universe) I realized I wanted to make my science fiction stories as realistic as possible. Sure, there’s some willing suspension of disbelief involved—mostly around Galactic Velocity travel and how quickly people could get around planetary systems. (It’s a hell-of-a-lot easier managing travel times of 31 hours versus 31 years.) To that end, in real life, it bothered me whenever I’d see depict
Running Sands
Other than massive sharks and arachnids of frightening size or disposition, few things scare me as much as the nebulous fear that I won't...
Book Review - Persepolis
For my men's book group, where we try to hit fiction/non-fiction from around the globe, we read Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel...
Markless - Short Fiction
The following story was inspired by a National Geographic pictorial on gutsy climbers in Yosemite National Park. (While I applaud such...
