Frontiers of Space, Time, and Thought -- an odyssey

Practically the first thing I did after declaring an end to day jobs -- apart from the occasional shout of joy -- was write "The Day of the RFIDs." That was in 2004.

An RFID chipThe next year, when I sold my first short-fiction collection, TDotR was its opening story. Most stories in Creative Destruction -- though not TDotR -- had first appeared in Analog Science Fiction and Fact , so I asked Stanley Schmidt, the editor, if he'd consider writing a guest introduction. He graciously agreed -- an...