Doc Savage in Oz? Doc Phoenix in the The Oz Encounter
Having written about a bad Doc Savage pastiche Monday, I thought I’d follow up with a good pastiche (also edited from an old post on my own blog), from the …
Category: Science Fiction
I’m sorry but you’re not as clever as you think you are
Writers have been sharing insights and wisdom with their audiences for longer than I’ve been around. Longer than this country or printed books have been around. That doesn’t mean it’s …
The Greg Hatcher Legacy Files #17: ‘Saturday on the Fence’
Old-school comics AND Star Trek? Greg is on fire in this post!
The Ripper and the Baronet: my novel Questionable Minds is out
Some decades back, I wrote a novel. Okay, I’ve actually written several unpublished novels. Questionable Minds was my fifth. By that point I’d gained enough experience that when I looked …
Mars needs … Christians? Red Planet Mars
Back in the 1980s, conservatives began holding up the 1950s as a utopia. A peaceful, united nation full of happy nuclear families resembling 1950s sitcoms (mom at home, dad at …
Delivering papers and bicycling through time: Paper Girls
I finished the Brian K. Vaughn/Cliff Chiang series Paper Girls in 2020, then reread the whole thing in 2021 (yep, this is another repost from my own blog). I’m glad …
They’re devoid of emotion but that doesn’t stop them being mean and vicious.
Time for another cross-post from my own blog, dealing with material from my Aliens Are Here book, which should be out later this year. They’ve already picked the cover.Now that …