My second SFF short story live on Wattpad
I’m excited to launch my second short story THE LIGHTS on Wattpad. Wattpad is like the YouTube for writers. Writers post their stories there for free, including short stories and serialized novels. Wattpad great and safe place to get feedback on your writing. In THE LIGHTS, Franklin is alone and sick in the frozen Icelandic wilderness. The…
Before The Martian, there was Ben Bova’s Grand Tour Series
We are not alone in the universe. As cliché as it sounds, many of us conjecture it to be a fact. Just consider the number of places where life could form. Estimates are there are 1024 planets in the universe, with potentially trillions of planets in our galaxy alone. The possibility that we are the only form of life in…
Flash review of Linesman by S.K. Dunstall
A weekend at the beach and pool was just what I needed to catch up on some reading. I completed S.K. Dunstall’s excellent novel Linesman, which came out in June this year. For me, one of the deepest questions posed by Linesman is how art and science interface. Artists talk of craft. Mathematicians talk about…
Amazing SFF reads
It’s a busy week with Convocation here at Ryerson University. I give five speeches alone to graduates on Wednesday. So this week I thought I would just offer some quick ideas for great reads in the Science Fiction/Fantasy genres.