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Two Fourteeners in one day—a pair of 14,000-ft peaks, Mount Evans and Mount Bierstadt. I’ve climbed both several times, individually.  In summer of 2010, I took my friend Harry Kloor up to the summit of Mount Evans, and then a few months later I took Neil Peart up to the summit, in between two Rush […]

I attend a lot of science fiction and fantasy conventions all year long, and I am excited to announce a new guest appearance—I’ll be a special speaker at this year’s RushCon in Toronto on Sunday, October 14th.   This is the twelfth RushCon,  a dedicated convention for Rush fans (or a convention for dedicated Rush […]

I’ve been getting a lot of questions and letters of concern, so I wanted to post this as soon as possible. Rebecca and I attended the red-carpet premiere of THE DARK KNIGHT RISES last night in Denver. It was a charity event, with proceeds to benefit A Walk To Remember, an organization that supports bereaved […]

Titan Books will be reissuing THE MARTIAN WAR, my steampunk alternate history featuring HG Wells, TH Huxley, Percival Lowell, and Dr. Moreau, all joining forces to prevent the Martians from launching their war of the worlds! Millions thrilled to H.G. Wells’ brilliant account of the Martian invasion. But what if that account proved not to […]