The Wrong Sword

I love this photo. It's Claudia Sheinbaum, president of Mexico, celebrating International Women's Day. Sheinbaum is a PhD in Energy ...

You're at a party. The hors d'oeuvres are tasty, the drinks are strong, the people are pretty. You're talking to this one guest ...

" Cheesecloth." You're welcome. [Okay, okay - once the turkey has finished cooking, soak the cheesecloth in the drippings and ...

Every book is a conversation between the author and the society in which the book was written, even when the book is science fiction or fant...

  It's here, it's here! The Jan/Feb 2022 issue of Analog  is here, available. Go here for the table of contents with Yours Truly o...

If I haven't told you already: My short story, Charioteer,  will be published in Analog  next year - the Jan/Feb 2022 issue. You'll ...

This is not Isaac Asimov's Foundation .  That's not necessarily a bad thing. The original trilogy is clunky. Most of it is character...

Put away the cigarette  Breathe deep Perhaps you do not need the nicotine

What do we want when we read fantasy? For a lot of readers, it's the chance to identify with powerful characters. Wizards, warriors, ang...

First published in 1970, The Eye of Argon may be the worst fantasy novella ever written. For decades, reading it out loud was a convention ...