My wife said my last blog post ‘reeked of depression’. Well, I can’t deny that the state of the individual programmer isn’t a little depressing, but it hasn’t overwhelmed me with depression. For one thing, programming has become such a small part of my life. I’m a writer now. And the joys of writing are… Continue reading The Joy of Creation
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Forget It! – ROM – August 1977
I was 27, living in a mobile home in south Austin, when I received a phone call out of the blue. Erik Sandberg-Diment was starting a new computer magazine and had read my article on personal computers in the April issue of Byte magazine and wondered if I would write a science fiction story for… Continue reading Forget It! – ROM – August 1977
From Lake Michigan to the Frigid Sea
My most recently written novel, with most of the action taking place on Lake Michigan, has been sent off to the reviewers, so it’s time to fold up those brain cells and put them over there and turn to another project until the marked up review copies come back to me. A novel I haven’t… Continue reading From Lake Michigan to the Frigid Sea