science fiction and fantasy writer, author of the American Craftsmen trilogy, Border Crosser, and the Agent of Exiles audio adventure series.
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Another Bloomsday--it's always different every year w/ Joyce's Ulysses. Today I'm thinking how, like Dante's Comedy, its setting is in the writer's past prior to exile, which is also prior to the traumatic European & Irish conflicts occurring during the time of its writing...
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2/2...The nostalgia is personal and general--it's antebellum literature. I wonder if someone is consciously writing such now.
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"Undun" by the Guess Who seems an on-the-nose choice in several respects for the featured song in the 3rd episode of #StarCity.
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As both Beelzebub in #GoodOmens Season 1 and as Raskova in #StarCity, Anna Maxwell Martin uses her voice to convey someone who's not posh yet dangerously intelligent.
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"anti-posh" may be better wording.
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Holy crap, first episode of #StarCity is quite good. Much more intensity than the 1st episode of this season of #ForAllMankind.
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Idris Alba could have been a great Odysseus
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in case you missed this from last week...
my usual blather...
a little trip I took to Canterbury thinking about Keats, Chaucer, Joyce, EM Forster, Theroux, Thoreau and space opera
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Here's my Balticon.org program!
Friday, May 22, 2026
5:30 PM How to Subjugate Nations and Dominate the World
Saturday, May 23, 2026
8:30 PM Author Reading
10:00 PM Fate or Free Will
Sunday, May 24, 2026
5:30 PM Fantasy Beyond the Castles
7:00 PM 75 Years After I, Robot
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Watching Around the World in 80 Days on PBS--if it does nothing more than introduce me to the real historical person Jane Digby, then I'll call it a success.
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I wrote about our autocrat as Napoleon III back in 2016, and now Andy Borowitz writes how he's fulfilled expectations. But the comparison may be unfair-- Napoleon III took significant actions for the poor, for which he faced criticism from the better-off. facebook.com/share/p/1CN2GYh…
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On sale! The kindle edition of War & Craft (the final book of my American Craftsmen trilogy) is on sale for just $2.99. So read the grand finale or get the whole trilogy while the price is right for this part. amazon.com/War-Craft-Novel-A…
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Currently re-reading SF/F works from 75 years ago as prep for a possible panel. I'd completely forgotten the eerie harbinger of doom in opening stories of The Martian Chronicles--the Martians start singing songs from classic English poems. (I read before I knew the references.)
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"Who in your merry merry month of may
Who by very slow decay
And who shall I say is calling?"
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Long past time for a spring clean for the May queen.
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Happy Hitler Goes to Hell Day! On this day in 1945, Hitler killed himself in his fancy bunker. Sic semper tyrannis.
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It's been long enough that this review by Sarah Avery's of American Craftsmen seems new to me again, despite posting about it back in the day. Thank you again for your support, Sarah! blackgate.com/2014/12/30/the…
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I live less than a 1/2 mile from the Hilton--lots of helicopter noise in the air, and besides the usual sirens some strange ones.
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More & more, this is like a production of The Producers on a national scale, complete w/ the grand financial scams that failure allows, and a repellent ideology highlighted at its center. Sure, our show has humor as well, but it's like the jokes of the Troubles & other dark times
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