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Amazing Stories Best of 2025 is available

March 13, 2026 – Amazing Stories magazine has published their Best of 2025 collection, and my story “Speaking Bear Leader’s Quest” is in it! Here’s a link to the magazine’s website: and here’s their press release: Amazing Stories Announces Amazing Stories: Best of 2025 New anthology celebrates the year’s most imaginative science fiction—featuring a classic […]

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New cover for Softlife

September 13, 2025 – Yesterday I replaced the Softlife cover I made myself with a professional one by 100 Covers (100covers.com). It may take a while for the change to propagate to all sales channels, but eventually, every version will have the new cover. Next is to get more reviewers (any volunteers?).

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From rainbow to blue sky

August 12, 2025 – I removed the rainbow-colored background from the home page’s header. I have nothing against the LGBTQIA+ community, but I’m not a part of it, and I don’t want to accidentally misrepresent myself. Back when I first created the header, the rainbow was just a set of colors used by various people

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Another technical paper

June 28, 2025 – Another technical paper on which I’m a coauthor was recently published, so I’ve updated my publication list. (Note my old-school placement of the preposition “on.” I’m still a little old-school.) Not that I suppose anyone’s following my publication list closely, but I’m a bit compulsive and like to keep things up

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Cataract Surgeries

May 31, 2025 – I had cataract surgery on both eyes during April. Normal people get cataract surgery, recover quickly, and rave about their improved vision. Then there’s me. My first eye was about 20/20 after its surgery. A few weeks later, it began to cloud up, until everything became pretty much a white blur

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