Flogging Babel

. Li Bai long ago wrote a poem, in Chinese of course, that can be translated thusly: Because water returns, though we cut it with swords...

. Chinese science fiction writers, editors, and other professionals were all over Worldcon 75. I had a number of conversations with o...

. One of the most substantive conversations I had at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki was with award-winning author, translator, and editor...

. I just now finished a story and placed it in the pie safe. Which is a tool almost as necessary to a writer as a pen or a level desk...

. It used to be, Marianne and I had to drive three hundred miles to visit her parents. Today, alas, it takes less than a hundred. Y...

. Look what came in the mail yesterday! The September/October issue of Asimov's Science Fiction contains my novelette "Un...

 . Look what came in the mail yesterday! Twenty-eight years after its last English-language publication, In the Drift is back in pri...