Monthly Archives: November 2007

Amazon.com is the first of the online booksellers to display the cover image of my forthcoming book: Oddly, my name is mispelled on the cover image. It was not mispelled on the color proofs I recieved. I do hope the … Continue reading →

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy. Spider Robinson, “Callahan’s Law”

By way of Jerry Pournelle’s website I found this video. It is interesting. Here is the description of it: In this bracingly honest and funny talk, international security strategist Thomas P.M. Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering … Continue reading →

Nothing can astound an American…In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane’s proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a … Continue reading →

We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world. Neil Gaiman, Signal to Noise

Like something from Robert A. Heinlein’s Starship Troopers :

My duty is not affected by what others may or may not do to discharge their own. David Weber, quote from Honor Harrington in On Basilisk Station (1993)

I write as clearly as I am able to. I sometimes tackle ideas and notions that are relatively complex, and it is very difficult to be sure that I am conveying them in the best way. Anyone who goes beyond … Continue reading →

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. Gordon R. Dickson

To think that realistic fiction is by definition superior to imaginative fiction is to think imitation is superior to invention. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination … Continue reading →