Well, we have a quorum. Over half my Betas of Bluest Moon are back. I held myself to not looking at them until May, but now I have to follow through on the other half of that promise. I’ll be heads-down into this edit for the better part of this month with queries going out …
The stars greeted him. The crisp desert air gave a clear view of the night, as planes blinked by a sliver of moonlight. Four planes blinked, flying in an orderly row. First four, then five, and six. One by one, more blinking lights joined until the whole sky flickered in a wave from east to west, the stars going out and coming back ten or more times before Gary shut his eyes tight, took a deep inhale, and opened again.
Nothing but night. No stars. No planes. Darkness.
Like many other authors out there I’m taking part in NaNoWriMo again this year. In other words, don’t expect much from me this month. When I’m not in a caffeine induced craze of keyboard abuse I’m either sleeping (less than usual), working (less than usual), and/or (usually and) thinking about my novel. This year I …
A few weeks back I was toying around with the idea of a brain “connectome”. This is the concept of a complete map of all the interconnections in a brain. To date computer scientists working with neuroscientists have been able to take small-scale structures, like insect or mouse brains, and map them with very good …
I have a tendency to write parables. It’s likely the influence of all the old-time Golden Age sci-fi I read, but when I start a new story it seems that I’m thinking in terms of idea and consequences. “Wouldn’t that thing be cool to have? What would be the consequences of that technology?” Simple tales about …