Callout for Flash Fiction Stories

With the “Flashes of Speculation redesign”:http://open-dialogue.com/blog/2007/03/08/fos-redesigned/ complete, I’m putting the callout again for “submissions”:http://open-dialogue.com/fs/submissions/. If you write science fiction, fantasy,...

Book Reviews: Eragon and Eldest

For the work of a 15-year-old writer, Eragon is an amazing story – I enjoyed it as much on the second read as I did on the first, perhaps even moreso. The book tells the story of a young farmboy who stumbled across a dragon egg and becomes an unlikely hero. He...

Three Questions – Related

If you could assign three colors to represent science fiction, what would they be? If you could assign three colors to represent fantasy, what would they be? If you could assign three colors to represent horror, what would they be? And yes, there is a point to...

Reviving Flashes

I really _would_ like to get “Flashes of Speculation”:http://open-dialogue.com/fs into a much more active status – more submissions coming in, more interaction from readers (both on the site itself and on the “discussion...

Forthcoming

I’ve just quite a bit of material to write about, all of it stacking up in the queue. Most of it right now has to do with theology and philosophy and the like, some of it has to do with writing, and some to do with gaming. All of it requires a clear head to mull...