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According to my spreadsheet, this month I passed the mark of having written one million words of fiction.

Ah, late night video hour, when you somehow end up watching a Harvard class day speech by Andy Samberg.

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The five-year-old has decided to dress up as a pirate for his dentist appointment, because he knows he’ll get to pick a reward from a treasure chest at the end. Continue reading “Speeches, Pirates, Shakespeare-ish”

Always Be My Maybe (starring Ali Wong & Randall Park, with a notable guest appearance by Keanu Reeves) is totally delightful, beginning to end.‬

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I’ve really missed working on an Otters In Space novel. Trugger always surprises me, and it’s so delightful. Continue reading “From Keanu Reeves to Flowers and Back”

My brain was so excited about starting a new Otters In Space novel that I couldn’t sleep and thumb-typed a whole bunch on my phone in bed, and when I did fall asleep, I kept writing all night; unfortunately my devices are notoriously bad at recording words I write in my dreams.‬ Continue reading “Starting a New Otters In Space!”

I’ve been seeing  a lot of interest in my robot stories, ever since “The Three Laws of Social Robotics” came out in Analog.  So this page is a guide to where readers can find more of my stories about Maradia’s robots. Continue reading “Maradia’s Robots”

‪I never dream about my house. I dream weird new houses, which made sense when it looked like we’d have to sell this house and move away. But this morning, I think my brain tried to dream about my house. The result was a strange hybrid of the bones of the house I grew up in, set on the hill where I live now, with all of the furniture stripped away and stolen. Continue reading “House Dreams”

I finished writing a novella today that I started sixteen years ago.‬

I wrote 194 other stories and 7 novels between the time when I started this novella and when I finished it.‬

I decided, out of curiosity, to watch Super Mario Bros. (1993), and… well… um… that was… bewildering.‬

‪The five-year-old’s unsolicited review: “It’s sad because it’s not like the game.” (Although, he seemed delighted while actually watching it.)‬

So, today, I hatched plans for a novel that involves a Norwegian forest cat captain who runs into a giant world turtle in space and also (separately) a space opera version of Camelot that centers on Guinevere, except she’s a sentient plant alien. So much writing to do!!!!

I can’t think of anything that screams, “Making a prequel was a baaaaaad idea and we regreeeeet it!” more than giving up after two years and jumping the characters forward in time until it’s not a prequel anymore.‬

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“If we learned anything, we learned we’re not yet ready to learn everything.”‬

‪This is such an incredibly cheap, lazy, and anti-science sentiment. Just because knowledge must be handled responsibly doesn’t mean the answer is to simply throw it away.‬ Continue reading “Watching Star Trek Struggle”