The on-sale date for my next Star Wars novel, LORDS OF THE SITH, has been moved from March 5, 2015, to April 21, 2015.  The reason for the move is due to your failure in the cave.  We figured you’d want some extra time to complete your training before you face Vader.

Or it’s just ordinary course publishing release date changes for reasons inscrutable to mortals.   Hard to say.

Either way, April 21 is … Read the rest

Those of you who’ve taken symbolic logic learned that in a conditional statement falsity implies anything.  One of my old professors used to love to say something like, “If the moon is made of green cheese, then pigs can fly.”  The implication of the conditional is true because the premise is false.  But both premise and conclusion are nonsense.

The purpose of teaching the concept is, among other things, to show the importance of a … Read the rest

On a lark, I fictionalized (as best I could given the constraints of Twitter) a walkthrough of the legendary Tomb of Horrors, just composing it on the fly via Tweets.  I guess I was itching to play some D&D.

Maybe it’ll remind you of some of your gaming sessions.  Certainly if you’ve played through Tomb of Horrors, you’ll recognize some references here.  🙂

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Hoddypeak staggered into the village today, babbling about a lost … Read the rest

As a follow up to this piece:  I read today that Damien Walter, who I think has done much to encourage internet mobs, has decided, in the face of a great deal of push back (an example; here’s another) against his most recent piece in the Guardian, to withdraw from the internet for a week to meditate. I don’t know if that’s true (I appear to be blocked from his Twitter feed, … Read the rest

Damien Walter recently published a piece at the Guardian entitled, “Science Fiction’s Real Life War of Worlds.”  You can and should read the piece yourself, but I think I’m fairly characterizing Damien’s argument when I say it goes like this:

1.  SF/F is getting more diverse (with “diversity” here implicitly defined as being more inclusive of, and, in fact including more, women, persons of color, and persons of non-hetero sexual orientation).

2. A … Read the rest