Choose your weapon: The tech of my science fiction book “Faraway Star.”
When writing science fiction, the choices you make about the technology you depict have broad implications for the story.
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Historic photo: Portland, Oregon, 1890.
The Moon landing at 56: What does it still mean to us?
“July is dressed up:” Mid-summer hiatus.
Behind the Scenes: The American Revolution, In Its Own Words.
Interiors: Kitchen of Roman-era house of Lucius Maticeius Clemens, 4th c. CE.
The idiocy and futility of conflict with Iran.
The Verge
Choose your weapon: The tech of my science fiction book “Faraway Star.”
When writing science fiction, the choices you make about the technology you depict have broad implications for the story.
The Moon landing at 56: What does it still mean to us?
Interiors: Kitchen of Roman-era house of Lucius Maticeius Clemens, 4th c. CE.
Historic Painting: “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” by John Forrest, 2012.
The ship that sank a neighborhood: the General Slocum disaster.
Interiors: Classroom in a school in Palamuse, rural Estonia, circa 1890s.
Not a “good” bad movie: Revisiting “The Room” and its terrible human failings.
The Outer Garden
Historic photo: Portland, Oregon, 1890.
In some ways, Portland has changed a lot; in others, not so much.
“July is dressed up:” Mid-summer hiatus.
The idiocy and futility of conflict with Iran.
My secret profession: Am I actually a CIA agent?
Historian vs. AI: The technology sucks and is basically a scam.
Nuclear war: The existential threat we don’t talk about.
Nothingburger: The 2025 JFK Assassination document dump.
The Inner Garden
Behind the Scenes: The American Revolution, In Its Own Words.
My latest video is a compilation of eyewitness accounts from founding of the United States.
The book(s) I’m working on: “Faraway Star” and “Wild Among the Moons.”
Behind the Scenes: Mexico in World War II.
Behind the Scenes: The Bounty, a geographic history.
Behind the Scenes: 1981, Britain’s Awful Year.
Behind the Scenes: The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, Explained & Deconstructed.
