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Two decades!  On September 14, 1991 Rebecca and I got married in the back yard of our house in Livermore, California with about 50 people attending. We wore clothes made for us by a Renaissance Faire clothier; Doug Beason and Kristine Kathryn Rusch were “best people” (we even cut the wedding cake with Doug’s ceremonial […]

Last month I wrote a hard-SF novella, Tortoise & Hare, as part of a new project for the publisher Arc Manor, as the first half of a two-part story, TAU CETI, which was completed with a novelette by my protege and long-time friend Steven Savile. Tortoise & Hare is the story of a generation ship […]

A few weeks ago, the weather turned here in Colorado. When I look out the window at Pike’s Peak, the glorious mountain is covered with a blanket of snow.  After the frost, the aspens on the mountainsides are suddenly golden. Fortunately, I managed to wrap up two more epic climbs, the best of the season. […]

Of my more than 100 novels, CAPTAIN NEMO has always been among my favorite. I spent three years researching the life of Jules Verne, French history, and all of the complex details of the time period to craft a story about Jules Verne’s life and his fictional friendship with André Nemo, his best friend, who […]