• Starting things

    My post last week of the video about HyperCard has got me thinking about a coding project. I’d like to see a web of personal sites develop that interact in a very HyperCard-like fashion. When I was working for one of the leaders in online education, I began experimenting with simple components that could be…

  • Woman in a Scarf

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  • The Face of Evil

    A chess match, played by two brilliant but flawed opponents. Two narcissists hoping to manipulate the other into helping them achieve their own ends. For Hermann Göring, the goal is to cheat the hangman’s noose and show the world that the Nazi Reich was a just cause. For Dr. Douglas Kelly, the goal was to…

  • Andy Serkis

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  • Get set up for your run

    As of this week, I’ve begun my run through the query trenches with my latest novel, The Kingdom of Nod. I don’t know who first coined the term Query Trench, but it feels right. No one is an expert in querying. There are those who were successful, writers who have been signed, and those who…

  • The Root of the Internet

    My first programming language was BASIC on a Commodore 64. The next was Hypertalk on a Mac. Hypercard was the beginning of a two decade career making multimedia (the term for audio-visual interactive experiences from 1990-2005ish). This video does a fine job of capturing the concepts behind Hypercard and the types of hippies that spawned…

SCIENCE FICTION – DOUBLE FEATURE

Reality is weird. The science that reflects our understanding of reality is weird. The very mission of science fiction is to reflect that weirdness in ways that fill the reader with wonder. Science fiction writers aren’t here to repeat comfortable tropes. We’re here to make the reader confront the unabashed nuttiness of reality and their place in it.

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