May 12, 2014

How to Not Be Happy and Share It Far and Wide

Check out this comic. If you click on the image below, the entire strip will show up on the original site. You may have to click on it again to zoom in. (It will open in a new window.) This strip is from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. SMBC is one of my favorite web comics. It’s aways different, usually funny, and sometimes very thought-provoking. The obvious metaphor here is for religion, and it is certainly apt.

June 22, 2007

About Me

Good science fiction is about real life. It shows how individuals thrive when they have free will and wither when it’s taken away. How fear makes us stupid and understanding makes us smart. How civilizations inevitably arc toward tyranny, but also how heroes, who are normal folks like you and I, pull us back from the brink. Working on another masterpiece. The Great War of the Worlds is my attempt to write one of those stories.