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Italian-Style Buyout
My next novel, Buyout, concerns the consequences of a charter program under which prison inmates serving life sentences are able to take buyouts. The insurance company calculates the reserve amount they’re going to have to have on hand to feed/clothe/house/treat/litigate and offers the inmate X percent. In return, the inmate takes the Golden Needle. In…
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Late-Blooming Creativity
If you always wanted to be a literary wunderkind but the world has yet to recognize your genius even though you’re already eligible to be elected President, this New Yorker piece by Malcolm Gladwell might make you feel a little better. I know it did me… The age that I’m not looking forward to? When…
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Mars!
While Phoenix keeps doing its thing (most recently observing falling snow!), comes news that AMC is doing a movie of Stan Robinson’s landmark Red Mars. I love that book. It’s SF done right, in every way. (…although, if this is true, who knows when we’ll ever get to the Moon again, let alone Mars?) Also,…
Crooked House Fictions 