It’s Fantasy, but it CAN’T Be Whatever You Want it to BeThere is a phrase I have come to detest in the genre fiction discourse: “It’s fantasy, so it can be whatever you want it to be!”Aug 15Aug 15
The Techbros Are Wrong — ChatGPT Will Never Write a Good BookA couple of days ago, I watched a video by Meredith Novaco, a Youtuber with a computer science degree, about whether Del Rey had tried to…Jul 21Jul 21
“No, he’s NOT a Nazi!” — Who the Nazis really were, and why that mattersIf there’s one political artifact that annoys me more than any other right now, it’s the tendency towards declaring that people are Nazis…Jul 2Jul 2
Escape and Rescue — Adapting Grimm’s CinderellaMy upcoming book The Fairy Godmother’s Tale releases this week, and I thought it would be interesting to talk about the process of…Mar 3Mar 3
Snow White: The Most Difficult Fairy Tale?Having adapted several Grimm’s Fairy Tales for my new book, The Fairy Godmother’s Tale, the most challenging of them all was also one of…Feb 14Feb 14
The Remarkable Accuracy of Space 1999’s Moonbase AlphaI’m in the research and planning phase of my next novel, which is a hard SF story set on the moon. This has so far been a lot of fun, not…Jan 13Jan 13
Space Shuttle Explosions and Hugo Awards — The Normalization of Deviance at WorldconIt seems that one can’t get away from the mess that is the Hugo Awards these days. After writing what I thought would be my final coverage…Feb 27, 2024Feb 27, 2024
Open Letter to the Liberal Party of Canada on why I am resigning my membershipDear Ms. Elise Bartlett, Party Secretary,Jan 2, 2024A response icon1Jan 2, 2024A response icon1
Diversity and the Culture WarHaving done a corrective to the right-leaning side of the culture war, it’s time to provide one to the left, and talk about diversity…Dec 21, 2023Dec 21, 2023
