Take one novel. Rewrite it from scratch in a different genre and from a different character’s point of view. Release it on Wattpad for free. That’s 113. Originally called “Making and Remaking Iteration 113”, it is the first book in the Twinmaker series told from Q’s POV, which gives it a more serious, 60’s SF […]
Today I sold a new Twinmaker story to Lightspeed. “The Life of Riley” is kind of a break-up story, but the romance is far from a normal one. Several of my Twinmaker stories are romances. “Incomplete No.7” definitely is, and so is “All the Wrong Places”, which is due soon in Jonathan Strahan’s Meeting Infinity. […]
(The beginning of a four-part essay on “The Fly”: its social context, the story itself, and its legacy. This may one day become part of something bigger.) The two decades that span World War II’s opening salvos to the planting of a human boot on the moon are considered by some the Golden Age of […]
(The second of four parts. Previous part.) George Langelaan’s life story might seem the stuff of fiction. Born in 1908, he served as a spy during World War II and received plastic surgery in order to protect his identity during an operation in France. After parachuting into occupied territory, he was captured by the enemy, […]