Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

On Wednesday I flew to San Antonio for Worldcon, the big science fiction convention.  I made a point of seeing The Alamo as my first touris...

I think it was at Norweson that I attended a session on the private use of drones.  It’s fairly easy to attach a camera.  This one was used...

Putting the science back in science fiction movies.  That’s Europa Report .  In the near future, water has been discovered on E...

NASA has released its map of 1,400 killer asteroids—that is, asteroids that could possibly strike the Earth.   NASA In realit...

When reimagining a novel, such as my The War of theWorlds and Fairies , it’s important to make sure the older work is copyright free.  This...

On Thursday, I arrived at the Pacific Northwest Writers Conference in SeaTac, Washington.  Believe it or not, the city was named after the ...

A scene in my novel The War of the Worlds and Fairies involves a fairy and a pixie demonstrating épée practice—épées are thicker than foil...

I originally would look at J E Oneil’s blog because of her etymology studies.  More recently, I took her up on being a beta reader.  ...

Last year I started reading 1812: The Navy’s War  by George C. Daughan as part of the war's  bicentennial.   It’s a fantastically detai...