The Verge

Chapter 1 of “Faraway Star,” my new science fiction novel.

Read the first chapter of my book, here!

Interiors: Garden Court, Palace Hotel, San Francisco.

This is one of the central features of the grand Edwardian-era hotel, completed in 1909.

Hitler’s American deejay: The strange story of Mildred “Axis Sally” Gillars.

How a frustrated American actress became a notorious traitor--and paid the price.

Four minutes of enlightening darkness: The great solar eclipse of May 1715.

Correctly predicted by Edmond Halley, the eclipse was visible proof of the power of scientific thought.

Historic Photo: Panorama of San Francisco, 1878.

Groundbreaking photographer Eadweard Muybridge stitched together this panorama of the Victorian-era city seen from its highest point.

Moses’s great boondoggle: The 1964-65 New York World’s Fair [Part II].

The continuing story of the great World's Fair, which despite the delight it brought to millions was a financial disaster.

A bird out of hand: My reminiscences on the rise and fall of Twitter.

Twitter should be destroyed. It should not exist anywhere, at any time, in any incarnation. It is evil.