Saturday, October 7, 2023

Lightlark, or, How I Finally Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the AI Takeover of Mass Market Fiction

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I have been thinking a lot about the pending AI Fiction Apocalypse. Artificial Intelligence has, by some accounts, already reached the point...
Thursday, September 16, 2021

Joe Abercrombie's "The Wisdom of Crowds"

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 The Age of Madness ends in the place that it has to end, I think.  All of the larger plot and character arcs make sense.  The Weaver's ...
Wednesday, January 6, 2021

The Capitol invasion and other crimes

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I am a part-owner of the US capitol, as are most of the people reading this post. I am pissed right now, because a gang of thugs and morons...
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Thursday, December 31, 2020

2020 in Review

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 I more or less stopped being a writer in 2020. Yes, there were demands on my time, particularly online teaching and the adjustments it nece...
Wednesday, September 9, 2020

An Appreciation of Matthew X. Gomez's "God in Black Iron and Other Stories"

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  DISCLOSURE:  The author has, in his capacity as an editor, purchased and pubished my work in the past. New Pulp features a number of gifte...
Monday, June 1, 2020

The Privilege of the Anarchy Tourist

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I have seen the sentiment expressed that the people who show up to protest police violence and the people who show up to break shit and stea...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

Faces

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Faces are difficult. I teach teenagers the art of public speaking. Most of them can, with prodding, master the fundamental mechanics o...