My novelette “The Marriage of True Minds” has been published online by Amazing Stories (the web-based descendent of the first science fiction magazine), and is available (for free!) on their website as both text and audio. This is my first … Continue reading
A deep dark secret (okay, not that dark) about my past is that I used to perform on stage before I turned to writing as my primary artistic outlet. Not that I was ever a professional actor, but I appeared … Continue reading
Cast your mind back to 1999. Bill Clinton is still president, having survived getting impeached over that whole Monica thing, every computer programmer and systems administrator is working overtime to make sure the Y2K bug doesn’t destroy civilization, and Ricky … Continue reading
Surveying Terry Gilliam’s career as a film director is an exercise in frustration and disappointed. Although he possesses a truly original visual imagination and a wonderfully savage sense of humor, his filmography is littered with movies that are dismally mediocre … Continue reading
Regular readers of this blog (of whom there are, I think, none) know that I was a playwright up until the Pandemic, at which point it switched over to writing stories. (I wrote a post about it, if you want … Continue reading
“The life of a repo man is always intense.” Can you recommend a movie on the basis of its soundtrack album alone? Probably not, and Repo Man certainly has a lot going for it besides its background music, but damn, … Continue reading
In the summer of 1982, a memorable science fiction film hit the theaters and became an instant phenomenon, becoming the most popular (and most remunerative) movie of the year. That movie was Steven Spielberg’s E.T.: The Extraterrestrial, one of the … Continue reading
In the summer of 1977, when Star Wars* came out, I turned twelve. That was, I would say, the perfect age to see it. Old enough to appreciate the nearly nonstop action, the astonishing scope, the tremendous cutting-edge visual effects, … Continue reading
I am pleased to report that my new short story “The Third Wish” has been published/recorded by the fantasy podcast PodCastle, and is available on their website in both text and audio formats, so you may read it or listen … Continue reading
WARNING: This review contains spoilers for a 45-year old movie that you really should already have seen by now. I was obsessed with Alien for years before I ever saw it. The film came out in the summer of 1979, … Continue reading