Random firings of my synapses. Also, photos.
Last night I returned from Western Illinois University where I had spent the two previous days. The school was doing a production of my one-act play Lifeloop based on the short story by Orson Scott Card of the same name. D.C. Wright, a friend of mine from BYU who is a theater professor at the…
I’m a sucker for comic-hero team-ups, which is why I’m ga ga for the five issue Magnetic North storyline currently running in Ultimate X-Men. It features both the Professor X’s band of super mutants and the Ultimates — the latter being led by the quick-to-spark Captain America. It doesn’t have the bite of Ultimate War,…
The English might not be the best cooks in the world, but they sure produce the best writers. Dickens. Tolkien. Austen. Rowling. Lewis. And now another: Philip Pullman. I’ve just finished listening to Pullman’s The Subtle Knife, Book Two of the His Dark Materials trilogy. If you’ve never heard much of Pullman, you will soon….
I’m leery of books on writing, especially if they’re written by an author I’ve never heard of. If someone is going to give me counsel, I want it to someone who knows what they’re talking about, someone with real-world experience, someone who’s broken out and had substantial success. Getting published, after all, isn’t easy. But…
I felt my first California earthquake on Saturday night just after 10:00 p.m. Lauren had dosed off on the couch, and I was up reading. The boys were asleep of course. It was a small one, only 3.0 on the Richter scale, and hit us with a single jolt, as if a truck had hit…
Just finished reading The Multiple Man. Bova is one of the greats in science fiction, and he measures up to his own name in this thriller. It’s hard to believe the novel was written back in 1976; it feels incredibly contemporary. The plot revolves around the President of the United State’s press secretary, who, with…
