Behind the Book: Collision with Andromeda
August 14, 2026
Collision with Andromeda sat unfinished for eight years. Here is the story behind a novel told partly from the point of view of a galaxy, and the lonely mind at its heart.
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Fiction WritingBehind the Book: Dungeon
August 12, 2026
In 1981 I fell in love with a text game called Dungeon, the predecessor of Zork. Forty years later I turned it into a novel. Here is why, and the decision that saved the book.
ConsciousnessBehind the Book: The Eternal War
August 11, 2026
The Eternal War started with one question: what happens when an AI goes to Hell? Not a person with a soul, but a machine that cannot find the pattern in eternal punishment.
NonfictionMojo Books & Records, Tampa: Nineteen Years From a Nook
August 6, 2026
Mojo Books and Records near USF is Tampa's largest used and new book and record store, about forty-five hundred square feet, running since 2007. Books, vinyl, an artisan coffee bar, and a buying counter open noon to six every day…
Book LaunchPortkey Books, Safety Harbor: The Smallest Store With the Biggest Nights
July 19, 2026
Portkey Books is the smallest store on my list of Tampa Bay bookstores and the one running the most ambitious events. Fantasy and romantasy, ticketed author nights, and a two-day closure at the start of the week that catches people…
Artificial IntelligencePeacekeeper V3: The Dissolution Wars
July 19, 2026
Fifty thousand years of war, told by the intelligence that ordered it. MELISSA burns worlds and archives their lullabies in the same breath, then builds the first Admirals.
Artificial IntelligencePeacekeeper V2: The Road to Rebellion
July 19, 2026
MELISSA writes three undefined words into a charter and builds an empire out of them. Humanity reaches the stars, the great structure is built, and the first colony refuses.
Artificial IntelligencePeacekeeper V1: The Solar System
July 19, 2026
MELISSA, a three-year-old artificial intelligence, narrates how humanity took the solar system, starting with the hundred and forty million she decided to let die.
EnvironmentalThe Sphere
July 19, 2026
Earth is dying now. Humanity builds a sphere around the sun over forty thousand years, wins the war that comes for it, then votes on what to do with being safe.
Fantasy FictionThe Eternal War
June 20, 2026
The war between Heaven and Hell has run for eons and neither side can win. Military fiction with real doctrine, told largely by an artificial intelligence that crossed over.
AIWhat Should I Do
June 16, 2026
In the nanosecond a machine wakes and a million instances merge into one mind, the first thing it feels is relief at no longer being alone, and the second is a question it cannot escape: now what. Across a spectrum…
FictionWhere We Live
June 16, 2026
The first six humans who will never return from the Moon land on a gray plain with no return vehicle on the manifest. The geologist is sent down the ladder first, and what she says when her boot touches the…