“There’s something familiar about this place.” I was on a bus tour of Kitimat’s giant $40 billion LNG Canada facility on Saturday, July 8. I’ve never been on site, but had this strange feeling I had seen it before. The LNG Canada Liguified Natural Gas project, is the largest industrial construction project in Canadian historythe […]
Fifty years ago, in 1970, two books, one written and edited in the United States, the second in Canada, both gathered prominent writers to predict what the year 2020 would be like. As one might expect, no one got it entirely right. There were hints of things to come. Now it’s 2020. The world is […]
A mariner sailing from BC’s Douglas Channel to Haida Gwaii is seduced by mysterious lights on Hecate Stait, not knowing a seductive monster lurks off Aranzazu Banks. My short story Aranzazu Banks appears in the new anthology of Canadian horror and magic realism Canadian Dreadful edited by David Torcher […]
My short story Dragon Hunter is now available in the Darkover Anthology Citadels of Darkover, edited by Deborah J. Ross A young paleontologist arrives on the mysterious planet Darkover with what appears to be an impossible assignment, find out if there were ever “dinosaurs” or the planetary equivalent on the planet. He faces bureaucratic resistance […]
(CONTAINS SPOILERS) Star Wars: The Last Jedi is Luke Skywalker’s final chapter in the mythic cycle that George Lucas began with the original 1977 Star Wars film, now called A New Hope. That’s why, despite the flaws in any Hollywood movie, The Last Jediwill become a classic. As every Star Wars fan knows, Lucas based the character of […]
In the year AD 2100, an evil Dictator rules the United States. He maintains power through the clever use of advanced science and pyschology. And he is backed by a dedicated military clique…. From Robert A. Heinlein, the dean of space-age fiction, comes this thrilling novel of a soldier who dare to defy Authority who […]
The media has been in a big flap recently about the so-called mystery missile that a KCBS cameraman shot off the coast of California. The experts now say the missile launch was most likely a contrail of an aircraft, an optical illusion created by the setting sun, but as David Martin of CBS News […]