SH Flashback: “The Disappearance of James H___,” by Hal Duncan
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “ The Disappearance of James H___,” by Hal Duncan In a British boarding...
SH Flashback: “Origin,” by Ari Goelman
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Origin,” by Ari Goelman A human superheroine who's dating an alien superhero discovers...
Tesla Model 3 info
Several interesting and informative Tesla Model 3 links: Specs and prices, including prices for various options, from the official Tesla...
New wallet
In April 2014, I bought a nice cloth wallet at C2E2 in Chicago, from Geeks with Scissors. (I had been...
They were the dispossessed, reclaiming what was theirs
I've long loved John McCutcheon's 1991 rendition of Leon Rosselson's 1975 song “The World Turned Upside Down” (not to be...
SH Flashback: “Greetings from Kampala,” by Angela Ambroz
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Greetings from Kampala,” by Angela Ambroz During an interstellar war between Hindustani and...
Reminder tags
The other morning, I woke up with an idea for what could be a nifty tech toy: reminder tags. I'm...
SH Flashback: “Start with Color,” by Bill Kte’pi
Here's the next Strange Horizons Flashback story: “Start with Color,” by Bill Kte'pi In a world where everyone's dreams come...
More multimedia speculative fiction from Jon Bois
Jon Bois's tour-de-force multimedia science fiction future-of-football extravaganza “17776” is now complete. 25 brief chapters. Well worth reading/viewing, even for...
Another last-minute Hugo scramble
I spent today mostly hanging out with family, which was great. Saw one niece in a production of Lion King...
Letters from Marcy: Dec 1964
A couple years ago, I was given an amazing trove: a dozen letters from my mother to her parents, written...
Nichelle Nichols on naming and being cast as Uhura
Nichelle Nichols on naming Uhura and on getting the part (transcribed by me from a making-of segment on the ST:TOS...