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The morning after my tour at JGI, Diana and I split for the Sierras for a four-day backpacking trip. We didn’t get above 10,000 feet, so would have perished in the nano plague, but it was still pretty damn amazing. We parked alongside the Hetch Hetchy reservoir, seen here below Diana, then [...]

Here is your intrepid reporter Ned Ryerson preparing DNA for sequencing with Bridget Swift at the Joint Genome Institute in northern California.
Hmmm. Whatever could Ned be doing with this information?

No, this isn’t a post about Cormac McCarthy! It’s a post about idiots-on-wheels. In fact, I may make this a regular affair. Who else has a scary or fun story? Why are so many people so numb and dumb behind the wheel?
Two days ago I was driving through a calm residential [...]

Check this out. Bottom of the page. Yes, he’s serious. Bradley at Book Lovers is a mad, mad dreamer… but it is one hell of a book! Autographed, too!

I’m pleased to report that my WOTF-winning novelette “The Frozen Sky” has just been reprinted in Apex Magazine along with new stories from Glen Lewis Gillette and Jennifer Pelland.
Apex #1 Vol. 3 is available online or as a sharp-looking pdf or as a print magazine. You can order it here and, [...]

For anyone (like me!) who hasn’t read Douglas Preston yet, jeez, people, get out there and get into his stuff.
I picked up a copy of Blasphemy at the behest of an online friend. Naturally it sat in my to-read stack for months. You all know how much leisure reading I’m doing [...]

Apparently I’ve got old movies on the brain. Who can name me the classic horror flick in which someone gets their reward? Someone most hungry for it…
In the meantime, we’ve had two winners in my torturously scattered trivia challenge, Kimberly Arnold, known previously to me only as [...]