Speaking from my own experience, neither has anyone ever discussed a book with me, nor have I ever met a single fiction writer—the...
Genre, that charged and cherished notion, is the best narrative show in town when viewed through certain lenses. These lenses...
Vacuums suck.
That’s the joke, the entire bit. In the act of writing, we are, ourselves a vacuum. Alone, putting words in, taking...
Isaac Asimov. Ursula K. Le Guin. Robert Heinlein. William Gibson. Philip K. Dick. If you’re in your mid-thirties and grew up in...
I first read Frank Herbert's Dune when I was about eight or nine years old. It was on my older sister's bookshelf. Her room was...
No matter how many write-ins you sit with, how many languorous coffee shop hours you spend pecking away with other writers, the...
When I was in college, I took a class called "The History of Science," a survey of the lives of scientific thinkers and the progression...
What’s a weird western? It’s a western story that incorporates strangeness—whether that be magic, aliens, or a mechanical spider—and...
As long as I’ve been publicly writing exploratory fiction, I’ve struggled to answer a casual question often set in front of me...
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