In my research yesterday, I found a really spiffy map of ancient Alexandria — spiffy, that is, except for being wildly inaccurate about the all-important Great Harbor. This isn’t the mapmaker’s fault. Alexandria’s coastline is radically different now as a result of seismic activity, erosion, and human manipulation. Antirrhodos, for …
I’m still not feeling great, so I wasn’t able to manage the kind of sustained concentration needed to do much writing today. Instead, I spent the greater part of the day trying doing research. In particular, I’m trying to build as complete a picture as I can of Cleopatra’s Alexandria. …
A few weeks ago I posted a snippet from a review of Paradox 11, which features my story “The Angel of Marye’s Heights.” A second review has now appeared, this time from Robert J. Santa at SFReader: Michael Livingston does in his Civil War story “The Angel of Marye’s Heights” …
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Sherwood Smith, over at The Fix, just posted a favorable review of Paradox 11. Among the pleasantries are some kind words about my own story in the issue, “The Angel of Marye’s Heights.” My favorite snippet: With brutally vivid detail, the reader is made part of that terrible push up …