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 Air Force sword). As our twentieth anniversary approached, Rebecca and I spent a lot of time trying to figure out how we wanted to celebrate and how we could make it special. We travel so much throughout the year that neither of us was inclined...
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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 filled with dreamers, making their slow way to Tau Ceti to set up a new colony, a new Earth. After two centuries they have almost reached their goal...but back on Earth, over the two centuries, scientists have developed a new faster-than-light drive, and they may...
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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. A few days before we departed to DragonCon in Atlanta, I drove off for a 2-day camping/hiking trip in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains with the goal of completing a 13-mile loop hike, up on spectacular valley, then summiting two high 13,000-ft peaks—Venable Peak and...
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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 went around the world experiencing the adventures that only Verne could write about.  CAPTAIN NEMO was published many years ago and, thanks to a publisher and editor implosion, got very little distribution. Now, Titan Books has reissued CAPTAIN NEMO in a fine new edition, with...
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