Blog

Why should you take me seriously on issues of technology? It's a good question. The short answer is that I'm a patent lawyer with experience as a patent examiner, an undergraduate degree in Aerospace Engineering, and experience with a wide variety of technologies. Working as a patent examiner and as a patent lawyer requires and hones one's abilitiy to learn and understand new technologies. It also helps one pick things apart to see how they work - or don't. I'm also a computer geek, having ripped apart and rebuilt my computers (and those of others, mostly Macs) for maintenance, repair, and upgrade for over fifteen years - hardware and software.

Read more by clicking the title of this post.

All he wanted was a little respect for the genre. Now look at what we've done.

Thoughts from Warren Ellis, Cory Doctorow and John Scalzi on what, if anything, the "big three" (Asimov's, Analog and Fantasy & Science Fiction) can do to redress their falling subscription numbers -- and, for that matter, whether they are even "relevant".

Pass the knife. Where is the line to cut the SF pie?