Share Remember: it’s going to be a packed house at the Of Gods and Globes III reading on Tuesday night, with a special surprise famous guest. RSVP for the NYC reading here or to invite all of your tri-state area friends. The old Theodore Sturgeon adage goes: A science fiction story is a story built…

Photo by Chris Bair on Unsplash Most come here first for the science fiction and weird anecdotes while others come here for my occasional prophetic frothing against ideologies that, for instance, support Nazis. Though I promise to get to the Nazis, I want to lead-in with what scandalizes most Evangelicals about their scifi and fantasy…

Originally sold to Forgotten Ground Regained and Alliteration, who have spearheaded the modern revival in alliterative poetry and catalogued all of my alliterative poems in their archive’s index. Photo by Dawn Casey on Unsplash Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when published Schools of minnows scrape in a whip like blue cookie…

Photo by Nikolay Maslov on Unsplash So far, all of my check-ins for Los Angeles sound at least physically safe — if you aren’t and you’re reading this, my comfort for your loss. If you lost your home, also my comfort for your loss. Let us know in the comments how this community can help and…

Photo by Pete Godfrey on Unsplash Sometimes money is power, but sometimes power is money—especially in Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere. When we look at the various currency systems within Sanderson’s worlds, we find that he often inextricably fuses each economy to its local magic system. It makes sense, of course, from a magical perspective: if Apple…