Flogging Babel

. Terrific news today.  Two previously unknown poems by Sappho have been discovered, one of them said to be virtually complete!  Thi...

. Because your day needs to be more demented.  Everybody!  Let's sing: Any person who gets in its way is soon to be de-meated ...

. I've been interviewed by R. K. Troughton over at the Amazing Stories website.   The interview includes my explanation of how I ...

. I'll have to confess that the only time I ever encountered Robert A. Heinlein -- I stood in line to get his autograph for a fri...

. Recently I received an angry email from one "jac," reading: What do you think an introduction is for? I just started...

. January 23, 2014:  In the middle of a varied but mostly uninteresting dream -- though I did like the enormous bin full of life-sized tin ...

. R. A. Lafferty is back in print!  This is extremely good news because Lafferty was the single most original writer in science ficti...