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As I write this, I'm on a train speeding up the east coast, towards Readercon 2024, in Boston, July 11-14. Lots of interesting people will be there, some dear friends, some folks I'm in awe of (and a little trepidatious to meet!) I think it will be lots of fun! Somehow they've been foolish enough… Continue reading Where in the World is Christopher Rose? →

I forgot, in my prior post, to include my biggest chunk of news—I have a novella coming out in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction! I'm tremendously grateful to Sheree Renée Thomas, editor at F&SF, for entrusting me with this, and I hope the result is pleasing to her and to the F&SF readership.… Continue reading New Novella in F&SF! →

I'm starting to add to this blog my stories that have already been sold and published (in some cases more than once) so that The Curious can find and read them, in cases where the original dead-tree version is hard to come by. You can find them in a separate drop-down menu on the top,… Continue reading A Thousand Solomons, Again (and Readercon 2023!) →

I've been thinking more about writing as a performance lately. When I get a time to write, often it's just little chunks of time, maybe twenty minutes or half an hour, and sometimes it's just on my phone. It needs to be approached like a performance to get as much out of it as possible.… Continue reading Writing is performance →

There is nothing like coming back to a blog you started in earnest, and blowing the dust and cobwebs off the once-shiny entries and links. Time has a way of sneaking up on us, and our blogs. Thanks to anyone who for any reason stops in occasionally! First, to business. I had two stories that… Continue reading Eligibility Post 2022, and Update →

Wordle is the new thing, judging from Twitter anyway, and there's a lot I like about it, honestly. It's amenable to logical thinking, it rewards having a big vocabulary, it doesn't take an egregiously long time to solve a puzzle, and best of all, it has a built-in limit: it only lets you play it… Continue reading Wordle and Writing →

Hi to everyone reading! It's been a while—I'm amazed this blog has perservered in my absence! It's not exactly a chore, but it can be emotional work, to write an eligibility post. I have never been quite comfortable with them—I'm not great at self-promotion, or anything like that. But I had a conversation with myself… Continue reading Award Eligibility Post, 2021(ish) →

I have, I think, a time slot Sunday, May 30th at 7 p.m., at Balticon's science track, to talk about Interstellar Probe and the other current civilian space missions at Johns Hopkins APL. If you're not busy, and you have any interest, please stop by!  I hope it will be entertaining and maybe event a… Continue reading Stellar Wind and the VLISM →