Published in 1992, only about three years into my career, “The Last Robot” was, by my current estimation, the first story of mine that was really worth a damn. (There are a few older that have partisans, including my second sale ever, “Clearance to Land,” which made my opening splash, but I have a higher […]
Man is a social animal. It is therefore permitted, even if we don’t know each other, to disturb my simple errand with your conversation. I do not believe it too much to ask that if you do this, you first ensure that your overture is charming, informative, urgent, or sufficiently entertaining that it is excused […]
Originally published on Facebook on 18 March 2018. Story idea, one I do not have the patience to write (and which would be pointless to write, anyway, for reasons described down below): Some magical handwaving splits the world into two alternate versions of itself, one where the left-wing gets what it wants, one where the […]