Lancer Kind

I’ve always said that if you can’t be in high places, it’s good to have friends there who can tell you about the view.

I’m so happy, I’m going to have kittens.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is looking for public feedback as part of the Open Gov Initiative.

This older cover is my favorite.

Until today, I never really understood products that were “New AND Improved.”

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I went to Avatar last weekend and let me just cut to the chase: I loved it.

You remember ShadowRun?

I’m not in love with the term “alternative” but it works for me when I think about music–a different sound than what is usual for the mainstream media.

No one likes to see a changing of the guard.

Click to buy on Amazon It’s not often I get to post on my blog about something so lurid.

Maybe this is my personal problem.

Fox News, our lovely disinformation network, has invoked science fiction to protect you from health care.

So sometimes I need to get something off my chest.

Hardcovers are really handy, luckily there are places similar to this book printing company that could bring stories to my bookshelf in hardcover form.

A futuristic computer jockey named Diff gets attacked by bad behaving nano-bots during a Halloween party.

As some of you may know, I have moved to XiaMen, China.

This weekend, Sat June 6th, at 5:30 PM, will be the last reading this summer in Seattle before I take it on the road to China.

Maybe your homeland is a city, maybe it is an island, maybe it is an entire planet.

There must have been something in the coffee at the book event at Lake Forest Park.

You know what a browncoat is, right?

You’ve been reading these emails from me for a while.

I enjoyed the thought work that John Brunner has developed in this story.

At Norwescon I ran into these cats which think steam is the way to go.

Tierney O’Malley offered me the opportunity to guest blog at this great site called Wicked Thorn and Roses.

Another billboard caught my eye.

Good friend and great writer Camille Alexa is coming to Seattle.

Today, I’m a friend of all animals, even moss.

Two BSG "toasters" in a staring contest Lancer's splendidly, hard-working toaster This affront was created by some SciFi Channel mad scientist My plea to the Sci Fi channel Does anyone know why Cylons must be referred to as toasters?

I saw this billboard near the Seattle Post Intelligencer building (one of the local newspapers).

As a survivor of the Bush years, reading John Brunner’s The Sheep Look Up was a roller coaster that climbed high into the “oh my God don’t they know that’s a bad idea,” and dove into chasms of sadness as the characters in the book struggled to survive.

Last month, Carlos V’s (of Kirkland Washington) name was drawn from among last month’s new subscribers and won one of those spiff books on the right side of this blog.

Lancer in his office doing a pre-reading workout.

Show up at the Redmond Tully’s (near Bella Botaga) at 7:00 PM to learn how Daisy Duke’s marine activism lands her in trouble in a dystopic story of the future.

The other day I was traveling from Seattle to Canada and it was drama, it was action, it was like Firefly: I discovered my alternator was going bad, I didn’t have cell coverage to call for a tow unless I crossed back into the US, I had to make it through…

I’ve got this essay about the conflict between the military that runs the Galactica and the President who presumes to represent the civilians.

Every now and then life throws something at you and you have to stop what you’re doing and re-assess your priorities in life in order to figure out how to “do the right thing.”

A wonderful anime called Speed Grapher is about a Tokyo where money buys you anything you wish.

Don’t be scared, there really isn’t a bigfoot staring at you from the monitor, it’s just a picture.

The 1961 film Fahrenheit 451 was recently on the TV and I was struck by how modern it felt.

Ever since Honolulu Hottie got honorable mention, I’ve been obsessing about what story to send for next time.

Naturally, China has done a lot of great things.

(PARENTAL DISCRETION IS ADVISED!

Winners are published in the Writer's of the Future anthologies I’m very tickled!

We’ve all received spam from social network sites–classmates, facebook, myspace, linked-in, gmail invitations, … etc.

Every time I use an online bank, 401k, or some other service, I shudder.

I’m not trying to be arrogant or take credit for anything YouTube has done.

This year’s World Science Fiction World Convention was in Denver, only 1 timezone away from Seattle.

I’m excited.