Iapetus Shift update

It is very near! The editing is finished and ready to go, and cover art is in the works! I expect it will be 'on the shelves' sometime next month. I am so excited to finally push the 'publish' button and send it out into the world. It's been almost four years since I finished …

Making Mistakes, an evolutionary advantage?

I was reading this article about the origins of multi-cellular life, and remembered a thought I had a while back. I was thinking about why we make mistakes. It seems strange, for example, when I'm typing this post out, that I several times hit wrong keys by mistake. Why do I do this? Why don't …

A New Year

It's here, the end of another year. They fly by faster and faster, so fast it seems that soon I wont even notice. I'll start missing holidays in my distraction, and become one of those old people asking what month it is. But for now I have my wits, and I have goals! I completed …

The New York Trilogy, by Paul Auster

I don't read a lot of (or any, really) literary fiction. But I was recommended this book, or, trilogy of novellas, I guess, by a friend and was impressed by its strangeness. It grabbed my attention right from the start by being about a writer who seems to be confusing himself with his characters. Then …

Phoenix (2015)

I'm not usually very interested in war movies. In fact war is the least interesting genre of any entertainment to me. But AV Club had this movie near the top of their best of 2015 list, so I checked it out on a whim. Phoenix is about a woman who escaped from a concentration camp …