Beluthahatchie

National Defense magazine reports on the advice that science fiction writers, notably Larry Niven, are offering the Department of Homeland...

My 2004 story "Zora and the Zombie," which is about Zombies pre-George Romero (and with a capital Z), will be reprinted later thi...

"Chronicling Mars" is the theme of this year's Eaton Science Fiction Conference , May 16-18 at the University of California, R...

Anthony Burch marshals the arguments at the Bam!Kapow! website. Mark Hughes Cobb begs to differ: "Supes' vulnerability is in his ...

I was pleased that many versions of the AP's first-day story on Olympic-torch protests in San Francisco said the "parade rout"...

David Lowe passed along this fine blog entry, by New York Times reporter Andrew C. Revkin, on the scientific, economic and ethical issues ...

While I am no Libertarian with a capital L, I often share with students the perennial contention that the best argument for libertarianism i...

On April 6, during a speech in San Francisco, Barack Obama said: You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania, and, like a lot of small tow...

The Young Frankenstein billboards I saw all over the New York City area on my recent visit, like the website of the Broadway show, display...

I can't find it online, but the Cumberland Times-News ran a feature March 28 on the chaplains at Frostburg State University, including ...

Like many residents of the western Maryland mountains, we have occasional black bears in our neighborhood. One night this past fall, a bear...

In his March 18 speech in Philadelphia , Barack Obama said: As William Faulkner once wrote, "The past isn't dead and buried. In fa...

John Joseph Adams of Night Shade Books interviewed me via e-mail about my Nebula-nominated story "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse,"...

The editor of The Bottom Line , the Frostburg State University student newspaper, here editorializes about the weekly campus reading of the...

For the duration of awards season, my Nebula-nominated story "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse," from Jonathan Strahan's Eclipse...

Andy McSmith in The Independent doesn't think much of the movement to pardon the late Scottish medium Helen Duncan , convicted in 1944 o...

I'm doing a reading at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 28, in the second-floor coffeehouse in the student center at Allegheny College in Meadvill...

At Greg Frost's Feb. 21 reading at Main Street Books, we were pleased to meet Mount Savage, Md., artists Leah and Shane Odom of Miscella...

My story "Unique Chicken Goes in Reverse," from Jonathan Strahan's anthology Eclipse One , is a Nebula Award nominee. Here...

On the subject of my Jim Anchower stocking cap, Oz Drummond writes: Posting this comment without the comparative photos is simply not crick...