

MY FIVE FAV DYSTOPIAN NOVELS
Shepherd.com is a brilliant new online book site--founder Ben Fox likens it to wandering through a bookstore til that perfect something...

Joining the crew of 'The Jekyll Island Chronicles'.
Happy to announce that I'm doing the artwork for Volume Three of The Jekyll Island Chronicles for Top Shelf Productions--thanks to...


Isolation Harms: The Furnace, The Prison/Industrial Complex, and Solitary Confinement
I’m terrified of being alone. ‘Being’ in the sense of ‘living’. I’ve never actually lived alone; after college, in which I had...

Rave Reviews (and other things)
The Furnace pubbed on July 10th and has garnered some great reviews! The Washington Post.com called it one of 'The best science fiction...


Milestone Memories
Some of the Milestone crew, circa 1995. Left to right: Andrew Burrell, Joseph Illidge, Joe Brosowski, Prentis Rollins, Mark Bennett,...


'FURNACE' piece to be part of Cass Art's 'Wild and Civilized' illustration exhib
Page 69 of my upcoming graphic novel 'The Furnace' (Tor Books, July 2018) will be part of Cass Art's 'Wild and Civilized' illustration...


On Sci-fi Vehicles: Our Cars, Our Selves, Good and Bad.
The philosopher William James was once speculating about personal identity--what makes us what we are, over time. He said words to the...


On Utopias: Our Best Case Scenario--'The Jetsons', 'Foundation', or...?
Is there a purpose to human existence? A meaning to human life? Most philosophers today won't go near such grandiose and nebulous...


On Dystopias: The Threads between '1984', 'The Day After', and Beyond.
Somebody once said that the worst person you'll ever know is yourself. All the horrible things you've ever heard about Hitler, Jack the...


Welcome, all!
This is my first blog, and my first blog post, so bear with me. First, about me: My wife took this Howard-Roark-esque snap of yours truly...