Sculpture Punk...

I’ve probably mentioned this before (and I certainly will again), but the whole point of adding the epithet “punk” to a word to create a movement, really depends on having  methods or ideas that were once so expensive that they could only be accessed by the elite...

Pyr Books signs my nove...

I’ve been talking about my writing on this blog from time to time, but as of today it’s official: Pyr Books will be publishing my superhero steampunk novel: The Society of Steam. It’s a “duology”, which means it’ll be a two book series, and while I...

Is Fantasy the New Scie...

Hanging out at Orycon over the weekend I heard a number of people saddened by the fact that fantasy has overtaken science fiction in popular culture. During the last half of the 20th century sci-fi predominated our genre fiction, with a large black monolith waiting at the end of the...