My better half and I binged our way through new Netflix series Stranger Things last weekend, and I’ve been chewing on it ever since. On its face, the show — a sci-fi suspense period piece set in suburban Indiana in the 80’s — is kind of custom-made to hit a metric trailerful of my geek-nostalgia …
I promised some wonk about “Taste of Birdsong,” didn’t I? We should do that, then, yes? This story, unlike a lot of my other recent sales, is set in its own world, so there was a lot more whole cloth worldbuilding to do than when I write a Tall or a Detritus story. But that’s …
Cover art: Smoke in the water… by Cyril Rana Used under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC by 2.0) license Image edits by Joy Crelin and Leland Spencer As usual, extended nattering to be had in a day or so, but after a bit of fallow, I’ve a new story out in the wilds. …
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