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2025 Year in Review

Posted on December 28, 2025 by admin

In 2025, I spent time in Egypt, New York, and Washington State. I toured the pyramids and Sphinx, visited some of civilization’s oldest sites along the Nile, and explored the (literal) Seattle underground. My novel Perdition’s Storm was published by … Continue reading →

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Perdition’s Storm is out!

Posted on November 25, 2025 by admin

At long last, my novel Perdition’s Storm has hit bookstores and is a New Release Bestseller! Set in Italy, from the canals of Venice to the mosaic-lined streets of Ravenna to the old world charm of Palermo and beyond, this … Continue reading →

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Frankenstein, Dining with Vlad

Posted on October 28, 2025 by admin

“I called your name, and understood I was alone.” Guillermo del Toro’s adaptation of Frankenstein is a gorgeously gothic feast, with sumptuous colors, dreamlike images, and a set design straight out of a dark fairytale. Balancing weighty philosophical queries with … Continue reading →

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A Grim Crossroads, The Print Job

Posted on September 20, 2025 by admin

I saw a commercial recently where a father is wondering how to get his infant son to eat breakfast, so he asks AI for advice and is told “He likes it when you make silly faces”. Because this is definitely … Continue reading →

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A Visit to Seattle

Posted on August 17, 2025 by admin

Donna and I have done the math, and it seems that we’ve traveled to more countries than U.S. states. So in an effort to at least equalize this lopsided record of sojourns, we decided to visit the West Coast. Seattle … Continue reading →

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Happy 50th Birthday to Jaws

Posted on July 17, 2025 by admin

Jaws is one of the films that changed my life. No surprise, as it changed cinema itself, became the world’s first blockbuster, and launched the career of Steven Spielberg. JAWS AT 50 is a captivating look at how the classic … Continue reading →

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Why are sequels and prequels usually so terrible?

Posted on June 17, 2025 by admin

Speculative fiction is replete with spinoffs. It’s not a new phenomenon; when King Kong took the world by storm in 1933, the studio cranked out a Part II the very next year. In literature, sequels go back at least to … Continue reading →

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Mad Max and the Art of Worldbuilding

Posted on May 25, 2025 by admin

Characters don’t exist in a void; they live in and are products of a specific world. It could be sixteenth century Venice, a space station perched on the edge of a black hole, Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, 221B … Continue reading →

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Return of the Dire Wolf?

Posted on April 25, 2025 by admin

There are several ironies in this “dire wolf de-extinction” story of recent headlines. The first is that no, we didn’t bring the dire wolf back from extinction.  The scientists at Colossal Biosciences retrieved dire wolf DNA from a pair of … Continue reading →

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A Visit to the Land of Pharaohs

Posted on March 10, 2025 by admin

“Cairo! City of the living!” My first day in the current capital of Egypt has been joy incarnate. Egyptians are super-friendly, helpful, good-humored, and are possibly the best drivers on the planet–traffic rules in Cairo are little more than a … Continue reading →

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