Mark Murata's Suburban Fantasy

If you love “A Charlie Brown Christmas” as an ideal children’s story, you might not want to read this. Analyzing something beloved can take ...

Back to the Future was recently screened in theaters for its fortieth anniversary. Suffice it to say, I never saw it in a theater until now...

I am having the worst time with my science fiction manuscript in the terminology and names. I first called their version of the internet t...

I attended this year’s Pacific Northwest Writers Association conference, organized by hard-working volunteers to help aspiring writers. Inst...

I don’t think I’ve reviewed a manga before. I became interested in this one because the blurb said it was about a manga author who becomes h...

Susan, You’re the Chosen One by Lauretta Hignett Susan Moore is a middle-aged woman going through a difficult menopause. She used to live a...

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I'm going to write a detailed book review that I'll try to submit to a magazine. In the meanwhile, here is a reprise of a previous p...

 The March/April 2025 issue of Analog had a number of mystery stories. The novella “Murder on the Eris Express” by Beth Goder was a somew...