Hypothecaries, or where ideas come from
The idea that became Night Sky Mine had its origins in a piece of legal boilerplate. At the time, I was working part time for an older lawyer who was winding down his practice; he…
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Why Write Queer
I started writing queer characters and themes for the reason that I hear many other LGBTQIA+ writers cite: these were the stories that I wanted to read. When I sold my first novel, in 1984,…
Re-reading: Dolphin Island
I recently stumbled across an inexpensive ebook copy of Arthur C. Clarke’s Dolphin Island, which is a book I read to destruction when I was a young teenager. (Literally. The paperback eventually fell apart, which…
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Death by Silver — an excerpt
The new edition of Death by Silver will be out this month from Queen of Swords Press, and to celebrate I thought I’d post a brief excerpt. To set the stage: Ned Mathey, a University-trained…
Mathey & Lynes Update!
I’m delighted to announce that Amy Griswold’s and my gay Victorian fantasy-mysteries, Death By Silver and A Death at the Dionysus Club, are being reprinted by Queen of Swords Press. Death By Silver will be…
The Turning of the Year
It’s that time again, between the Solstice and the New Year, when the sun stands still in its rising point and the holidays come thick and fast. It’s the one time of the year when…
Adding Mastodon
So now that Twitter’s new owner has set the place on fire, I have established a new outpost on Mastodon — @blueterraplane@wandering.shop. This instance has quite a lot of SF/F people on it, and so far…
AI and Consequences
Recently, the Washington Post profiled a Google engineer who believes that a Google-created AI, LaMDA (Language Model for Dialogue Applications), has achieved sentience — that it has become a person, the equivalent of a “7-year-old,…