Author Archives: JE

1. A brain more than 2000 years old has been discovered in a muddy pit. On examination it doesn’t appear to be mine, though, so I guess I’ll have to keep looking. (I know I left it around here somewhere.) … Continue reading →

On balance, I decided Black Gate means more to me than Pox Verpulae or whatever his real name is. For those interested, my latest post is here. [edited to fix link–was typing in haste–still am]

Worlds to re-membrane from Taylor Mali: [seed at dindrane‘s LJ]

1. The bad news is that Theo, the newest addition to the Black Gate group-blog, is also the odious Vox Day. I object to the politicization of everything, and I think there should be a way for people who disagree … Continue reading →

At Salon.com (cookies must be enabled) there’s an interview of Laura Miller, talking about her new booklength essay, The Magician’s Book: A Skeptic’s Adventures in Narnia. I expected to enjoy the interview more than I did. Both Traister (the interviewer) … Continue reading →

Frank Robinson: an unexpected (for me) connection between sf and assassinated SF politician Harvey Milk. I read Robinson’s The Power as a kid because I had just seen the film version on TV and I thought it was the coolest … Continue reading →

The Dyson Sphere is roughly the same age as I am. Of course, the Dyson sphere is roughly 1 A.U. in radius and would be the most tremendous achievement of any society producing it, and similar claims are never made … Continue reading →

Facebook (the internet community site) officially passed what arbiters of cool referred to as its “freshness date” early this afternoon. Signs point to one James Enge as the responsible party. “Him joining was just sort of the tipping point for … Continue reading →

My latest entry at the Black Gate group blog is up here. It was going to be a double review of REH’s Almuric and Otis Adelbert Kline’s The Swordsman of Mars, both of which I read recently in the handsome … Continue reading →

Charles Stross apparently started an interesting meme in an f-locked post, taken up by jaylake (here) and burger_eater (here). The idea is for interested pro-writers to answer the questions concisely, giving the reader a quick timeline of their career. “If … Continue reading →