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Hi there Ren, it's been a little while, did you miss me?...

The Timewave Explorer is a web-based application for exploring Terence McKenna’s Timewave Zero....

I've been drivin' all night, my hands wet on the wheel. There's a voice in my head that drives my heel...

Here's the cream of the crop: short stories, novelettes, novellas by science fiction writers already well known and awarded for their high-quality work in science fiction. These are writers like Poul Anderson, Joe Haldeman, Tanith Lee, George R. R. Martin, Robert Silverberg, James Tiptree, Jr, Vernor Vinge and Gene Wolfe....

Boy, was Spielberg ever wrong. Close Encounters my ass....

Beloved, forgive me, mothers, but money cannot buy love...

In the desolate Martian frontier of Victoriaville, a brave community of settlers faces relentless threats from mercenary bandits working for a powerful Earth...

I used to listen to them for long hours when writing.

Mork : I’m trying to fit in here on Earth because these are a very violent, violent people....

No matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can’t possibly do this, somehow you do....

In the early nineties (it might have been 1992, but it’s hard to remember when you’re having a good time) I joined a rock-and-roll band composed mostly of writers. The Rock Bottom Remainders were the brainchild of Kathi Kamen Goldmark, a book publicist and musician from San Francisco. The group included Dave Barry on lead...

The Mabinogion (Welsh pronunciation: [mabɪˈnɔɡjɔn] ⓘ) are the earliest Welsh prose stories, and belong to the Matter of Britain. The stories were compiled in Middle Welsh in the 12th–13th centuries from earlier oral traditions. There are two main source manuscripts, created c. 1350–1410, as well as a few earlier...

This goes out to the silent who fight the urge to get violent...

Thank you very much Kalawa for jazzing me up. This ladies and gentlemen is Mr Bouga Two Shoes, in the place to be, and it go a little something like this:...

Time for a road trip......

With insight, humor, and practicality, Natalie Goldberg inspires writers and would-be writers to take the leap into writing skillfully and creatively. She offers suggestions, encouragement, and solid advice on many aspects of the writer’s craft: on writing from “first thoughts” (keep your hand moving, don’t cross out,...

It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to...

Take this, this Muslim's blood, this Hindu's blood....

Astrix Bandcamp...

Some of the craziest slide action I've ever seen on a shamisen....

Don't panic, and bring a towel....