by Hyram Voltage | Jul 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
Sometime you read a story and it’s not great, maybe forgettable. But the book has an idea and that idea has legs. Gallagher’s Glacier has a standard plot of asteroid miners treated like slaves rebelling. One of the heroes of the story builds a space ship... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
I am not getting much done on my books. I have health problems and ‘m forced to stay home and away from people. So why can’t I get more writing done? You would think that forced isolation would be great for a writer. But even introverts need social... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Last week I attended four zoom meetings. Three of the meeting I hosted. Of those three meetings, two of them I generated an agenda and after the meeting I generated minutes. So what did I do this weekend. I competed in a contest to talk to as many people, one on one,... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 9, 2020 | Uncategorized
May I recommend a literary science fiction book written by a philosopher. Olaf Stapledon was a British philosopher that wrote science fiction books in the 1930s. These are not fast paced, light-reading, but his books influenced many later science fiction authors. He... by Hyram Voltage | Jun 1, 2020 | Uncategorized
I had lunch with Ray Bradbury back in the 1970s. I know, that was before you were born. Still he was one of the classic science fiction writers. He sold his first story in 1938 so he had been writing for a long time before I first met him. He considered himself a...