One of the oddities of serialized fiction becoming the norm on television and much more common in print and at the movies is that people who know for damn well that a larger story is being told still react as if any temporary development or opening status quo is an immutable condition. I first noticed […]
Originally published on Facebook 26 June 2016. Look. Science fiction is one of the things I write. I publish some in ANALOG, a magazine where some of the stories hinge on the finer points of engineering. I understand that some of the folks plying this trade pride themselves on accuracy to multiple decimal points. But […]
Originally Published in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination, February-March 2016. This is not a review of Marvel’s Jessica Jones miniseries on Netflix. It begins there but heads other places. If you insist, I will establish right away that the comic book it comes from, Alias, is one of my all-time favorites, that I think the miniseries […]