Yes, it has. So strange how days can take forever to pass, but a decade is gone before you know it. This month represents ten years since I first started my job at the University of Washington, and I’m not sure if this tenure is an accomplishment or just a sign of how much I’m…
Maybe I’m oversimplifying, but it used to be that the division between mainstream fiction and science fiction was a pretty hard boundary, and not many writers from the mainstream side ventured into SF. Quite a few SF writers managed to publish outside the genre, sometimes under different names, but there weren’t many who went the…
I don’t always dream about music, and when I do, I don’t always remember it very well when I wake up. There have been a few cases where I’ve written a piece of music that largely originated from what I remember of a dream. There are a couple of notable ones that predate the start…
There’s a whole lot of crazy going down in the world today, so maybe it’s good to take a moment to appreciate something that’s not crazy, and is in fact quite beautiful. This morning was very clear in Seattle, and also quite cold. But that means — as we say in these parts — the…