Archive for the 'Politics' Category

Thoughts from the night before

Six years ago tomorrow my alarm clock, set to NPR news, delivered me into a waking nightmare. Sometimes I am still convinced it must be a bad dream – its hard to believe we squandered the outpouring of world support, mired ourselves in a pointless war when we should have given the Middle East a [...]

Worth Watching

Figures that as soon as I mention how I almost never watch TV (so I have time to write), I’d get caught up in a show. I took four hours out of my life to watch “God’s Warrior’s” on CNN, an excellent bit of investigative reporting by Christiane Amanpour. The series was three two-hour shows, [...]

Reading Recommendation: Al Gore’s “The Assault on Reason”

I just finished listening to this book on Audio CD on my iPod. There are a lot of messages in it, some delivered in a more balanced way than others. But the most important topic is one I often talk about when I give keynote speeches: the conversation about the future is one of the [...]

Publications

Wings of Creation can now be pre-ordered in Mass Market paperback edition.

Westward Weird is now available — my first published ghost story

One of my favorite shorts, “My Grandfather’s River,” has been included in this beautiful new anthology named RIVER, edited by Alma Alexander and now available via Dark Quest Books.

December special.

Mayan December is now available for only .99 cents for Kindle and Nook.

Great price.  Limited time.

I have a new story in “Under the Vale,” a fabulous collection of stories set in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar.

I have a new story in “Under the Vale,” a fabulous collection of stories set in Mercedes Lackey’s Valdemar.

Year’s Best SF 28 Out!

My story, “My Father’s Singularity” is among many great stories in this anthology.  Available widely.

Recent interviews on the web

I had two really fun interviews come out recently.  They can be found at:

Heidi Ruby Miller’s Pick Six

MilSciFi interview relating to my story, “Cracking the Sky” in the No Man’s Land anthology

In an Iron Cage now available at Amazon

This is a fun Steampunk anthology from Dark Quest Books.  My story is set in the Yucatan Peninsula, between the two time-lines of Mayan December.  Drop by and pick one up!  This is the ebook version, a print version will be out soon as well.

“Cracking the Sky” will be out in May in the anthology “No Man’s Land.”

This story was inspired by a trip to the Army’s TRADOC Mad Scientist conference last year.  No Man’s Land is a military science fiction anthology written entirely by women.  NEWS:  It can now be pre-ordered at Amazon.com.

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