Flogging Babel

. I drew up the above diagram last night as a tool to help me with a story I'm having some difficulty with. There are two main cha...

. I dreamed I dropped by Janis Ian's house for an unannounced visit -- which was pretty cheeky of me, considering she lives in a diffe...

. The memorial for Gardner Dozois  was held Saturday at the Friends Center in Center City Philadelphia. Well over a hundred people sho...

. A decent respect for my editors and publishers requires that I mention that I will be making an appearance tonight at 7:00 p.m. at t...

. Once a year the Rosenbach Museum and Library  celebrates Bloomsday, the commemoration of June 15, 1904 on which all the action of J...

. Back in the day, when I was a scrawny gonnabe writer, Gardner Dozois used to offer me encouragement. We'd be sitting around in...

. If you talk to new fantasists or read articles aimed at them, they're all obsessed with magical "systems" and sets of ...