A note up front. I wrote this piece, read it, and then debated for some time about actually posting it. As you can see I decided to go with ...

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I ran out of time over the weekend and was unable to get anything written for the blog, but I found this review I wrote and posted December ...

A few days ago I came across a magazine article about the work of Philip K. Dick. The article was in a Catholic Magazine—a rather good magaz...

I'm going to change the format of these posts a little. Rather than featuring a television series episode or film I'm going to conce...

I read a Brian Garfield novel a little better than a month ago. I was going to review it originally, then I got lazy or busy or something, a...

1 . It’s been a great summer so far. As most of you know we—my wife and I—moved to a small city in Southern Utah. I’m attending graduate sch...

It has already been a week since I posted the initial sorta-kinda film festival featuring television and film written by, or based on the wo...

“A man can get into a lot of trouble if he’s lonely. If he’s just lonely enough and has time on his hands. That’s a combination made for tro...

This is becoming a trend—a short story for Friday morning. This time it is a more recent story. A story published in 2002 and written by Bil...

The Internet is an amazing place. It is a spider web of interesting (and uninteresting) information and cool stuff. It is especially brillia...

Guild is Ed Gorman’s first Western. It was published in 1987, and reissued by Leisure Books this past April. The protagonist is a former law...

Michael Crichton directed seven films; six were major feature releases and one, the first titled Pursuit , was a television movie. I was abl...

Michael Crichton was an immensely talented man. His creative work spanned five decades. His first novel, Odds On , was published as a paperb...

I recently read a short story by the late Stephen Marlowe titled “Terrorists”. It was published in the January 1956 issue of Accused ; I rea...

There is a 1996 interview with Dean Koontz over at YouTube--I've loaded it below--from the old, much lamented, Tom Snyder show. It feels...

You wouldn’t know it from reading my blog—except for one lone post —but I’m a huge Jack M. Bickham fan. I first discovered his work when I r...

Warren Murphy is a master of the quick, witty, and action-filled novel. He co-created the bestselling The Destroyer series, and in the 1980...

I really enjoy the old television series The Twilight Zone , and to a lesser extent the two television series that it spawned. It has been s...

George Gates was a travel writer, but since his young son was murdered he no longer has a taste for the road or the stories he once wrote. N...