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By public demand, and after a delay of an embarrassing number of years, I've finally put my notorious essay, Ender and Hitler: Sympathy for the Superman, free on the fabulous internets.

A bibliography of my published books and stories.

Here's a simple card-counting FAQ to get you up to speed on the basics. Here's the true story of the notorious DD' blackjack team, told for the first time on the fabulous internets. No other team went from a starting investor's bankroll of zero to winning millions of dollars.


A Sadean take on Asimov's classic Three Laws of Robotics can be found in Roger Williams' NOW REVIEWED ON SLASHDOT!!! The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect. Adult readers only please -- explicit sex and violence. For updates on the "Dead Tree Project" and other topics, you may visit the official fan site, Passages in the Void..


My Bird Lists -- My Louisiana State Life List, My Yard List and, tah dah, My World Life List.


HEY! What happened to the Peachfront Conure Files? The world's only OFFICIAL Peachfront Conure site now features free peachfront conure coverage, including a magazine length Intro to Conures previously published in American Cage-Bird Magazine, now free on the web. I offer the best free Peachfront Conure information on the internet. If you have great Peachfront Conure info, stories, or photos to share, contact me so I can publicize your pet, your breeding success, your great photograph, etc. on my site. Thanks.







the dreaded art gallery entry

2003-04-08 - 7:21 p.m.

When I was 10 or 11, and on through my early to mid teens, I drew stuff like this over and over and over, pretty much relentlessly:

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My talents as a doodler did not go unrecognized. In the early 1980s, Wendy's and a local TV station offered an art contest, where I drew something like this, with a heavy emphasis on Saturns*, UFO Space Brothers, and comets spinning around in the sky, and I was one of several runners-up who won, not a ski vacation, but a Coleco Vision Adam computer. It was my first computer.

It also didn't work. We had to exchange it at Sears a couple of times before we got an actual operating model, but after that, it lasted for years and was way, way, way better than any typewriter I'd encountered.

BF still likes to remind me of what I said when I first learned what I'd won: "It's hardly worth the trouble of picking it up." I thought it was a toy for playing games.

*Saturns as in ringed planets, not Saturns as in the cars, which may or may not have been in existence yet.

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