It would make my life easier if I just wrote one kind of novel — some easily classifiable category.  Many of mine fit my Small Towns, Big Ideas label, but some do not.  This is one. Chicago isn’t a small town.  Traveling brought me many times through the Chicago area, and I was fascinated by… Continue reading My Favorite Book: Breaking Anchor

My wife is a workaholic.  She always schedules more than a reasonable person can accomplish. So one idle science-fictiony thought caught in her brain and she mentioned it over and over for years — the idea of a room where you could go inside and time outside would stop.  It’s a place where you could… Continue reading My Favorite Book: The Copper Room

In 2009, I had an opportunity for a big Canada trip, starting in Saskatchewan and traveling east, stopping in Montreal for the Worldcon where I picked up my Golden Duck award for Lighter Than Air. After that, we kept going east, up the St. Lawrence, until we turned north through Quebec and took the lightly… Continue reading My Favorite Book: Bearing Northeast