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World Without Pain: The Story of a Search
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Road Signs
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A collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories -
Thoughts from the Aerie
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Memoirs and essays on a range of topics
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Silent Interviews
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Stories about the mysterious Telepathic Guild Invisible People
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A collection of science fiction and fantasy stories The Relocation Blues
Adriana’s Family
The Woman Who Fell Backwards and Other Stories
Apocalypse Bluff and Other Stories
The Senescent Nomad Hits the Road
Invasive Procedures: Stories
Heroes and Other Illusions: Stories
Bedlam Battle: An Omnibus of the One Thousand Series
After the Fireflood
Caliban’s Children
The Fantasy Book Murders
Opting Out and Other Departures
Sunflower: A Novel
America Redux: Impressions of the United States After Thirty-Five Years Abroad
Fear or Be Feared: Fantasies
Writing as a Metaphysical Experience
Reviews and Reflections on Books, Literature, and Writing
The One Thousand: A Novella
The One Thousand: Book Two: Team of Seven
The One Thousand: Book Three: Black Magic Bus
The One Thousand: Book Four: Deconstructing the Nightmare
After the Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Memoir of Greece
The Misadventures of Mama Kitchen: A Novel
Dark Mirrors: Dystopian Tales
Love Children: A Novel
Painsharing and Other Stories
The Dragon Ticket and Other Stories
Category Archives: On Writing
Step by Step
I felt overwhelmed today. There are work issues, family issues, and urgent business that needs to be taken care of. Our finances, as of those of most people in Greece, are in a tailspin. To top it all off, it’s … Continue reading
The Tortoise Manifesto
Recently I have been reading a lot of resolutions from other exuberant writers with amazingly optimistic daily word counts for 2012: two thousand, five thousand, even ten thousand words a day. Quantity is the only way to go, it would … Continue reading
Resolutions
I hate resolutions, not just New Year’s resolutions but resolutions in general. They are often made with the best of intentions, but collapse in the face of reality, which is often random and relentless and abrupt and all-encompassing. Reality doesn’t … Continue reading
Paper Dragons
Sometimes the systems of this world just kind of fall into place. They are the results of a lot of decisions by a lot of people and gradually evolve over the years, usually as the result of reactions to crises. … Continue reading
Standing Up to Intimidation
I’m a pushover. I have been all my life. I don’t easily get feisty and quarrelsome, and I don’t easily question what others tell me. I want to believe that they are sincere; I want to believe that people naturally … Continue reading
My Emancipation Proclamation
I ruminate how to start. I want to say it succinctly but I want to say it all. The only way is to dive in. I am a writer. I have been a writer since I was about seventeen years … Continue reading
Endings
First the disclaimer: this is not an essay on writing, though I may use various aspects of writing as an example. If you want to write, write. Go ahead, just get started. Do it any way you want and write … Continue reading
Posted in On Writing, Parenting
Tagged Cordwainer Smith, Harlan Ellison, Parenting, Writing
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I Don’t Care
A lot of things happen in life. Many good things, yes, but also nasty things, discouraging things. Recently, and by this I mean in the last three months or so, things have been going awry for me personally; I have … Continue reading




























