On April 17, I was given the great honor and privilege to speak before the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington, DC. These are my prepared remarks. I mostly stuck to them, and didn’t improvise as much as I usually do, because I was more nervous than usual at this conference. I knew that…
My friend and mentor, Warren Ellis, is an award-winning writer, and incredible human. I am grateful and incredibly lucky to have him in my life. Warren’s been writing and sending out this newsletter called Orbital Operations for awhile, and the most recent one had two things in it that I loved so much, I asked…
I had this epiphany at the beginning of September: This thing that I’m doing? This series of choices I make every day? It isn’t working. I don’t like the way I feel, I don’t like the way I look, I don’t like the things I’m doing. Things need to change. So I took a long,…
Flash Fiction, that is, you filthy animals. This is another one from my dumb Tumblr thing, based on another neat work of sci-fi art I reblogged. Jace looked up from the scanner. “Two colonials, Hep! On the other side of the rock.” “Perfect,” Hep said, almost to himself. “Perfect?! How are we gonna handle two?!”…
My talk to Miami University went very well, and there were way more adults (like, old people like me adults, not college-aged adults) than I expected. Turns out I was terrified for no good reason. I recorded the entire thing, and once I have a chance to clean up and edit the audio, I’ll post…
