Keeping this blog updated has clearly become less and less of a priority based on my last post being over a year ago, but I’m happy to say that I’ve become more remiss not because of a lack of productivity or happenings, but because I’ve been busy working on a book and on essays and new short fiction.

In fact, I found out just this week that my first two Science Fact essays published in Analog last year came in both first and second in the AnLab awards, which are a reader’s choice awards for...