Author Archives: JE

It’s practically Wednesday in France by now, but all the same: Happy Bastille Day! The lyrics of the French national anthem are a little more sinister than “The Star-Spangled Banner”, but the music’s better so it balances out. “Do you … Continue reading →

1. An interesting thing from Fred Pohl’s The Way the Future Blogs: Gaia, it seems, is dead. Long live Medea. The only thing that bothered me about it was that FP seemed to have Medea mixed up with Procne (and … Continue reading →

I rose above inertia today and managed to update my website to indicate, oh, that I had actually published a novel and stuff. I added links to the “Online Fiction” page for the two Morlock stories that went up (a … Continue reading →

I took last week off, for sheer laziness patriotic reasons, but my Blog Gate post for this week is at last up. It’s about Planet Stories reissue of Henry Kuttner’s Robots Have No Tails, but you probably vastened that already.

1. I don’t want you guys to think I’m the clumsiest biker in the world. But I did take another tumble the other day. The thing is, my newish bike has much tighter brakes than the throwaways I’ve been riding … Continue reading →

A happy 4th to those who celebrate it; a great Saturday to all. Someday we’ll be as good as Ray sang we were, and we’ll let America be America again.

I don’t think I’ve often posted three times in 24 hours–three times in a week has been a lot for me lately. But my narcissism sense of public duty compels me to point out that I’m interviewed in the latest … Continue reading →

Isn’t there a giant virus inside this thing?

1. My Blog Gate post for the week is up. This one is about legends, the pirate queen of Ireland, phlegm and other types of humor. 2. Morlock may be immune from fire, but he has been Kindled.

I expected this to be all over my flist today, what with the densely layered genre refs (especially a great turn on the novel Dune around the 11 minute mark). But maybe people are paying more attention to things that … Continue reading →