You’re a decent person. You really are. Oh, sure, you have some bad habits, some irritating beliefs, some things you do that get on the nerves on people around you. But by all the low bars, you’re a decent person. You don’t molest children. You don’t attack people with broken bottles. You don’t set bombs. […]
I have seen the “How come I never heard of you?” slammer used against many writers of note over the years, most recently against Barry Malzberg, Pat Cadigan, and David Gerrold. It is usually used as a political slammer: to wit, not all of your political beliefs march in lockstep with all of mine, therefore […]
Captain Christian White, supreme commander of the LILY, put down his nutritious meal of American cheese on white bread, with extra mayo, and answered his buzzing intercom. He barked the standard protocol for answering every red alert on ship. “I’m not gay! Report!” “I’m not gay, sir! We have a ship decloaking off the bow! […]