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July 8, 2025
How Acting Class Made Me a Better Writer
Let’s start by admitting I was never really any good in my acting class. At university I took an arts degree with a heavy dose…
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May 28, 2025
Exeunt, Pursued By a Bear: When Stage Fright Bites
Okay, strap yourself in for a harrowing tale of stage fright. Imagine, gentles, we are back in the author’s undergraduate days, and his required history…
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May 18, 2025
Ten spurious facts about Victoria Day and the Queen it’s named after
Yay, it’s Victoria Day–a well-deserved long weekend holiday. For those of you who don’t live in Canada, in many provinces we celebrate the birthday of…
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April 17, 2025
Leaving Las Metas
Is the act of removing myself from Meta’s walled hellscape — deleting Facebook and Instagram — a kind of digital suicide? What will happen when…
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April 1, 2025
Hitting People in the Feels
Review Roundup of The Gates of Polished Horn I’m not sure if “hitting people in the feels” was the goal for this collection of short…
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March 2, 2025
The Toronto Star Reviews The Gates of Polished Horn!
My new book in the big leagues Well isn’t this lovely. The Toronto Star reviews The Gates of Polished Horn in its roundup of new…
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February 12, 2025
The Datasphere Is Coming
The Gates of Polished Horn has many science fiction stories that are preoccupied with the notion of what I call The Datasphere. This is more…
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February 11, 2025
Italo Calvino and His Invisible Cities
Italo Calvino is a writer I’ve admired for some time, particularly his book, Invisible Cities. Somewhere in the middle of my new collection, The Gates…
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February 10, 2025
Close to the Wind
“Close to the Wind” is the sequel to the first story I’d ever had professionally published, “Any Port in a Storm” (Parsec, 1999). They both…
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What Wine Pairs with Hitler?
What wine pairs with Hitler? I mean, if you do use his flesh in a spicy stir fry, I’d guess a sweeter Gewürztraminer would work.…
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