The Quantum Thief, by Hannu Rajaniemi, is many things: a caper, a hard science fiction thriller, an action-adventure story, a cops and robbers tale, and a post-cyberpunk yarn. The novel came out several years ago (with two sequels to date), but I recently read it and was compelled to review it. The rest of my review is below the jump. …
We’re all drafts. Our lives are spent making notes on the backs of hands, in files, or on scraps of paper, musing on half-finished ideas, starting and abandoning projects, and constantly revising what we do finish. I like to be busy, I like to listen, and I love telling stories. These desires, for a long time, have been mutually exclusive. …
It seems like a social media rite of passage to write about quitting Facebook. Many hate its privacy (or anti-privacy) policies. Then there’s the company’s brazen admittance that it messed with its users emotions. I get it. I’m not a fan (friend?), either. I’ve deactivated my account before, and I haven’t had the mobile app in years. But I still …
Whenever I want to type, “last year was challenging,” I always feel the need to write about the year before that for context, because that year was challenging, too. But then that year requires the previous year for context, and so on. I have to go back to when my life went from manageable and relatively calm to one filled …
In the early 1990s, George R.R. Martin (GRRM) called it quits with Hollywood and hunkered down at his home in New Mexico. He was tired of being told to cut his scripts down, and he wanted to write a sprawling epic that was not constrained by budgets or other meddlesome hands. He began to write his A Song of Ice …
I mentioned in my last post on this blog that I would be moving all topics related to my job as a freelance copywriter and editor to a new blog. That worked out; I wrote several blog posts on copywriting or editing topics. But I wanted to also write about the films I saw or stories I read, or I …
