This is Part 4 of a six-part response to Visions, Ventures, and Escape Velocities: A Collection of Space Futures, which is available for free from Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination thanks to a grant from NASA.… Continue Reading
Language is a technology, a doorway, a weapon, and an agent of change and hope. As it shifts both form and function, the metaphors that describe it change too. Language is a technology that has shaped our brains. Ted Chiang’s… Continue Reading
A long, long time ago… in a galaxy far, far away… [cue amazing, soul-electrifying fanfare] It is a period of civil war. Rebel spaceships, striking from a hidden base, have won their first victory against the evil GALACTIC EMPIRE. During… Continue Reading
Sandra McDonald’s story Fleet appeared in the post-colonial anthology We See A Different Frontier (along with my short story Remembering Turinam). My story received an honorable mention in the recently released 31st edition of The Year’s Best Science Fiction — Sandra’s went… Continue Reading
It’s been a while since I’ve been able to do anything writing related, including update this blog. But there has been exciting news! First of all, We See a Different Frontier is now available at Amazon and Barnes and Noble,… Continue Reading
Tournevis at the blog Le Pouding à l’arsenic has posted an early review of the colonialism-themed anthology We See a Different Frontier. The anthology will be published this month in both print and electronic versions and includes my first professional… Continue Reading