Monthly Archives: January 2011
Newsletter #60
Dear People, I have a rough plot outline for the next RCN space opera, The Road of Danger. (The title is from a poem by A E Housman.) Whee! A rough plot may not seem very exciting to other people, … Continue reading
Like the Man Said
For my birthday in 1975, John Squires (who had been taking a bookbinding class) gave me a book bound in one of my fatigue shirts (that Jo had given him) and containing (as tearsheets) Ranks of Bronze, Arclight, Contact!, Something … Continue reading
Sgt Scratchard Knife
A gift from Christof Harper, a custom knifemaker and a veteran: –the sort of thing Sgt Scratchard (from Counting the Cost) might have carried. The details:
Into the Hinterlands
Baen Books has posted a Teacher’s Guide for Into the Hinterlands. Into the Hinterlands–the first book in The Citizen Series– is a space opera built around cultural situations very similar to those obtained during the youth of George Washington. John … Continue reading
Amores II:14
My rash Corinna lies exhausted between life and death, trying to force the burden from her distended belly. I am rightly angry at her for secretly deciding to try the risk of pregnancy, but my anger gives way before my … Continue reading