Memnison Journal

I’ve been asked to speak at a Wright State University forum; their Honors Institute is having a symposium on Chinese-American relations called “Connecting With China”,  and I’m to talk on “Exploring Issues in Cross-Cultural Adoptions” from 2-4 pm, February 17th. The event is free to the public, but you have to register in advance to [...]

The family has taken up a new and very nice practice; having family reading times – not scheduled as such, but so everyone has something good to read and is in the living room together reading.  It works pretty well, I think, and is an improvement over endless oh-I-can’t-watch-that debates about TV stuff. Tastes run [...]

While I’m notorious in AH circles as someone who insists that a AH story be (1) A GOOD STORY and (2) have some historical basis, not to mention (3) be one simple Point Of Divergence, not a whole mess of them (I can deal with some cascade effects, but not simultaneous stuff) – I give [...]

Martin Gidron‘s THE SEVERED WING, 2003 Sidewise Long Form Award Winner.    Reviews here and here.

Sometimes, you end up with a movie or book or story that you just get stuck on – as in, you’re at page 138, and the early part of the book is good, but the author has just gone off on a tear with some weird artsy material that passes all rational understanding, and you [...]

My ‘now reading’ section on the Memnison web site is being overhauled to add a bunch of things; I got behind in my reading of stuff, and I use this to keep me honest.   I have a ton of Sidewise reading to do.  Not all of those are up, yet…don’t think the short form stuff [...]

Major secret: back around Worldcon, I was approached by the shadowy forces that rule Windycon (which were about 5’4″) about possibly being the Fan Guest of Honor for Windycon for the 2005 con. Now, admittedly, I *do* have an ego. I was GoH at Congenial several years ago, when my mom was still around, and [...]