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My friend Alex Lamb, a software developer and author, gave a great response to my casual musing about Artificial Intelligence. If this topic interests you, take a look at the comments on my original post.

To those of you regularly checking in, this blog may seem to be unfocused and amorphous. I hope to show that it’s simply got a long arc. Just now, I posted the twenty-second chapter of my 1980s precocious-young-gamers novel, just … Continue reading →

This guy below was not like my dad, who was Catholic and, arguably, Buddhist. I did not live in this house, but I experienced this day, and watched the mountain from outside Portland. This is an odd book. For those … Continue reading →

Tess said, “I summon light and jump!” “You hear the baron yell as he leaps. A ball of pale, heatless flame appears in your fist, and Arslan and Dirk are beside you. Your arm is covered in insects. They tear … Continue reading →

Steve pisses off a girl at school, and she recruits “friends” to do her dirty work for her. Chapter 5

Tess enters Steve’s gaming lair and claims a position of authority, for both herself and her alter-ego, the dark priestess Megaera. Chapter 4

I’ve posted chapters two and three. Steve and his cohort of gamers prepare themselves and their game to accept a new player. Chapter 3.

I’m serializing my long YA novel. As the proper audience for this book is nostalgic middle-aged D&D gamer dudes rather than kids, its commercial prospects may be limited. Oh, well, I’m very happy with it.