Brooke Greenberg is a child who does not age. Her condition is unique, and baffles scientists. Many are interested in unraveling her "secret of eternal youth" - but should that occur, grave social changes may be in the offing. [Continue]

Science fiction often portrays how people live in the future, but rarely gets into the decisions or urban planning processes that got them to that point. I've had to think about Sa'adani urban planning philosophies lately in order to better [Continue]

Scientists are experimenting with physarum polycephalum - slime mold - to establish the basic functions of bio-computing. That is to say, they are making programmable 'machines' out of slime mold, using its ameboid biostructure as a basic computing [Continue]

I find that I write best, both plotting and characterization-wise, when I can get inside the skin of the characters I am writing about.  I don’t mean only “understand how they think”, which is such a common prescription for [Continue]

I'm a woman and a U. S. Army veteran. That puts me in a small class of authors who, like Elizabeth Moon and Sandra McDonald, have military experience and also write military science fiction. McDonald's and Moon's works are intriguing - and [Continue]

If you want to stay abreast of what I'm doing as an author, you might want to check out Warped Space, my new newsletter. It's more focused and less frequent than my blog posts, concentrating on writing and related activities. Plus, there are [Continue]