Vertigo

Here at WorldCon, I’ve been staying at the Marriott Riverwalk. It’s a … um … 30 or so stories? … building, and our room is … shall we say … pretty high up. When we arrived, they upgraded our room for free to one with a...

Perfume: Just Say No

I’m angry.Read this for background, and pay attention to the statistics.The problem of people being allergic to what’s in perfume is on the rise, and I have it. I keep my home as scent-free as possible. We use organic and/or unscented soaps, dish soaps,...
In Which A Husband Surprises His Wife

In Which A Husband Surprises His Wife

I continue to work hard on The Fall. The weird thing is, I can see the whole thing in my head. I just can’t get it out. So my husband interrupted my hard-scrabble attempt to finish another chapter by dragging me off to a car dealership. It seems my hardened...

Relativity, and Other Fine Tales

The more scientifically geeky of my readers may have noticed that in my books, I have people talking to each other across interstellar distances. In real time. Sometimes one of them is on a ship traveling at relativistic speeds, and no one is the wiser. They might as...

Discover Slooh

This may be old news to some of you, but a few days ago, I discovered the Slooh Space Camera while searching out information about the new nova in the constellation Delphinus. I’m not a scientist — just a geek. This got me really excited. Slooh webcasts...