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Golden Cyberpunk Memory

Here’s one of my favorite scenes from my cyberpunk novel Freeware. You can read all four Wares novels online. Or just buy the ebook. This post is illustrated by various covers of the novels. In this scene, my character Willy is running across a spaeeport field, wearing an imipolex “moldie” creature like a pair of […]

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What is Reality, The Meaning of Life & How to Be Happy

What is Reality? Is reality just one kind of thing, or is it many kinds of things? That is, do we believe in “monism” or in pluralism? If we go for monism, can we really suppose that everything in our world is a type of computation? It doesn’t always feel as if such a “universal […]

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My Ten Silicon Valley Novels

My family and I moved to Silicon Valley in 1986, and we never looked back. I had a job teaching computer science at San Jose State, and Sylvia began teaching ESL at Evergreen Community College. She’d teach them English, and then I’d teach them Java. For while I also worked as a software engineer at […]

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Ten Covid Paintings

I took up painting in 1999 while writing a historical novel called As Above So Below: A Life of Peter Bruegel about my favorite painter. I wanted to see how it felt to paint, and quickly I fell in love with the medium. I used acrylics at first. Later I came to prefer oils as […]

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We Won’t Ever Know

I’m going to get into some deep philosophy today, relating to the fact that we don’t know how to create a mind, and we can’t really predict natural processes. And we never really will know. And it’s not because we’re not trying hard enough. It’s because of the nature of the world. There’s a basic […]

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Hits from Updike’s RABBIT QUINTET. Plus NYC Photos.

I just spent a couple of weeks rereading John Updike’s Rabbit Qunitet, that is the four novees Rabbit Run, Rabbit Redux, Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit is Rest, plus a final novelette, “Rabbit Remembered.” The five works appeared, approcimitely, in 1960, 1970,1980, 1990, and 2000. Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom is the hero. A one-time high-school basketball […]

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Juicy Ghosts is Live

Juicy Ghosts is live.  I sent all the reward copies out to my Kickstarter backers.  It was a lot of work, but well worth it, to know the books are the hands of those who love them. You, of course, can get your own copies in any format you like at the Juicy Ghosts page. […]

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Jump Cuts

This post is mainly made of excerpts from my novel Juicy Ghosts, now available in paperback and ebook. Check the Juicy Ghosts page for details. What a long, strange trip it’s been — two years in the writing. I have a lot of nice photos around; I’ve been using some new techniques of late, shooting […]

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“Onward Foo the Throg!”

Kind of at loose ends this August.  I’m doing a lot of work to get my Juicy Ghosts books out.  I had a great Kickstarter campaign for the novel, and lined up about 300 backers.  I’m doing final edits on the novel and on the accompanying volume of notes.  And I printed some preliminary proof […]

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“Onward foo the throg!”

Kind of at loose ends this August.  I’m doing a lot of work to get my Juicy Ghosts books out.  I had a great Kickstarter campaign for the novel, and lined up about 300 backers.  I’m doing final edits on the novel and on the accompanying volume of notes.  And I printed some preliminary proof […]

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