Signpost: The Gospel According to Matthew
THIS IS NOT YOUR FATHERS’KINGDOM OF GOD (Yes, the apostrophe is deliberately placed.)
View ArticleLovecraft got this one mostly right
If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial...
View ArticleThe way to win
Since the time of Rimon Farris, atrocities have been committed upon us to keep us from attaining our goals. To the roll of martyrs, the name of Feleho, who of his own free will became Ambrov to Zeor,...
View Article“Truth in the Inward Parts” comes out — and it’s free for three days
By which I mean Lisa Waters’ and my story “Truth in the Inward Parts”1 in Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Sword and Sorceress XXVI, just released by Norilana Books and available in print and for Kindle. It’s...
View ArticleGooooood morning, 2013!
[Note: For full effect, imagine the above proclaimed by Robin Williams at his most boisterous. Thank you.] To answer those of you who observed that 2012 has been absent from these [pages], we offer the...
View ArticleSignposts: Facing disaster
WHEN FACING CATASTROPHE DON’T ASK, “WHY?” INSTEAD ASK YOURSELF: “WHAT SHALL I DO NEXT?” IN ANSWERING THAT YOU’LL ALSO ANSWER THE “WHY” “Burma-Shave.”
View ArticleThe wondrous WEATHER CHILD will soon be born!
Awhile back, in a discussion about magic, I referred to Philippa Ballantine’s marvelous New Zealand novel Weather Child, in which magic is done by a team of a human and a symbiont called a seraphim who...
View ArticleMy Country, ’Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of 50,000V
Dawn’s Early Light: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel. By Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris. New York: Ace Books, 2014. Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin . . . Kelly Robinson and Alexander Scott . ....
View ArticleA “Racial” Observation
Just a thought: Assuming that dark skin is a function of melanin content, either microevolution (here, resulting the separation of a species into various cross-fertile subgroups) includes a “use it or...
View ArticleSignpost: The Revelation
YES, IT’S BAD IT CAN AND WILL GET WORSE BUT HANG IN THERE AND DON’T PANIC I’VE GOT THIS
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