First because I hurt too much to think. Second because I’m in Colorado, which means my internet sucks. So posting at all takes forever. Sorry.
Month: September 2021

Something Newish from Amazon
I am hip deep in the final week before publication, so looking for blog topics completely slipped my mind. Every writer out there knows where

Reeling, writhing and fainting in coils
(with apologies to Lewis Carroll for the title). Or wot I lerned at skewl. Of course I had one of them superior edumacation wotsits. The

Chernobyl, Episode 5: That is how an RBMK reactor explodes
For this series of posts on the HBO disaster epic Chernobyl I’ve spent a lot of time discussing the sociology and politics of gripping storytelling,

Love Story, with Great Fight Scenes
Shang Chi A love story, with great fight scenes. I went into this movie with fairly low expectations. To be fair, that’s how I approach

Will science fiction become fact?
If you’ve been a fan of science fiction for any length of time, you know that writers have continually postulated building spaceships in space, rather