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SIGNIFICANT UPDATES

October 26, 2022: Add Thank You Greg Sager to the Personal Stuff page.
October 20, 2022: Edit Content, Presentation, and Realism on the Writing Stuff page, and Frontier Violations on the Written Stuff page.
September 29, 2022: Add a review of Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock's 1958 masterpiece, and its restoration in 1996 by Harris and Katz.
August 17, 2022: Added Delicious Circle to the Writing Stuff page.
May 26, 2022: Added the essay, Perfectly Interesting to the Writing Stuff page.
May 20, 2022: Re-arranged all reviews onto one page (Reviews) divided into two categories: Mine and Others. Also added Diane Goullard's book, Beyond Words.

HOFFER AWARD FINALIST:

Apr 29, 2022: Diary of a Robot has been named a category finalist in the 2022 Eric Hoffer Award.

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Dec 06, 2021 -- Judge, 29th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published Books Contest:

[Diary of a Robot] has perhaps the most unique (and entertaining) voice of the whole lot of books I read.

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Diary of a Robot

Push its button and a machine works. Usually.

We never ask what it thinks.

But now we may have to.

Chapter Zero

Future History

My novels are Speculative Fiction, but I use the oxymoron Future History to describe them. I could call them Speculative History, but that implies a re-write of the past to fit a favored plot, and these two robot stories do not re-write the past.

They re-write the future.

Chapter Zero

My Odd Brand

MY ODD BRAND

Standard web marketing says an author should have a brand. I've thought about that for years, and until today none popped up that I could even pretend to have. Marketing is not in my skill-set. I graduated as a High School teacher (history, government, and mathematics), but worked as a computer programmer for 40 years. Near the half-way point of that, I started writing a Sci-Fi novel. Recently I posted a .pdf on my Writing Stuff web page about writer's block and the similarities between programming computers and writing a novel. (I like odd combinations presented from a different point of view. A years-old example on my website is titled A Clever Plan, where I tie the Biblical Job and the prophet Jeremiah to Sir Isaac Newton.)

And then on my Written Stuff web page, I posted an essay titled Families and Democracy. It's about oil and water, and how families are not democracies, and.... Well, you should read it to see what's odd about that.

Standard author practice also urges us to keep our spirits up by celebrating small milestones, like finishing an essay or wining an award. So I went with my wife get her dog food order from the wholesaler. The trip would include a cafe mocha and a blueberry muffin at some point.