This page is to highlight some of the reviews, commentary and historical posts that I’ve done for other publications.
- Changing the Skies: Curtis LeMay and the Cold War transition of U.S. strategic airpower from planes to missiles, Armchair General Magazine, November 2011
- Ernie Harmon’s Battle of the Bulge: The feisty 2d U.S. Armored Division commander led “the cavalry to the rescue” at the height of the German Ardennes Offensive, Armchair General Magazine, November 2012
- NU to the Rescue: Irene relief efforts mirror those of 1927 Flood, Norwich Record, Winter 2012
- Out of the Ashes: How An Irish Episcopal Priest Saved Norwich University, Norwich Record, Spring 2012
Electronic
- 21 great sci-fi movies and TV workplaces for a geek to get a job
- 83 Crazy Differences Between Fringe’s Alternative Universe and Ours.
- 17 frigid worlds proving our snowpocalypse could have been WORSE
- 12 revolutionary uprisings from sci-fi movies, TV shows and books
- 23 of the world’s geekiest sci-fi and fantasy statues
- 14 sci-fi and fantasy gangsters you definitely don’t want to cross
- 13 Urban Legends and the Strange Supernatural Episodes They Inspired
- Groundhog Day and 24 more movie and TV days lived again and again
- Eight Actors who’ve worked both sides of the Star Trek / Star Wars Divide
- 10 Post-Apocalyptic Books (and a Graphic Novel) to Read After December 21st
- 12 Dystopian Future Films to Ride out the End of the World (If you still think there’s a chance)
- 7 TV shows that Document the Collapse of (non-Mayan) Society
- 15 Great 2012 Science Fiction/Fantasy Books to Read in 2013
- 14 Noteworthy Science Fiction and Fantasy Books – January 2013
- The Monthly Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Drop – February 2013
- Review: The Office of Mercy, by Ariel Djanikian
- Geek’s Monthly Science Fiction and Fantasy Book Drop – March 2013
- Book Review: The Burn Zone, by James K. Decker
- Book Review: A Natural History of Dragons: A Memoir by Lady Trent, by Marie Brennan
- Book Review: Mad Scientist’s Guide To World Domination, edited by John Joseph Adams
- Geek’s Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Drop – April 2013
- Book Review: NOS4A2, by Joe Hill
- Books: 2013 Hugo Award Nominees
- Science Fiction Author Iain M. Banks Makes Cancer Announcement
- Book Review: Fade to Black, by Francis Knight
- First Trailer for Neill Blomkamp’s Elysium Lands
- SyFy Announces 2 Literary Adaptations – Ringworld and Childhood’s End
- The History of Serialized Fiction Gets a New Chapter
- Book Review: London Falling, by Paul Cornell
- Geek’s Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Drop – May 2013
- Book Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman
- 2013 Shirley Jackson Nominees
- Book Review: The Human Division, by John Scalzi
- Trailer Launch: Ender’s Game
- Watch the World’s End Trailer Starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
- Fox Picks up Sleepy Hollow & Almost Human
- Don’t Let Go in the first trailer for Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity
- 2013 Locus Award Nominees
- SyFy’s Defiance Renewed for Second Season
- It’s Official! We’re Going to see Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, the Series!
- Book Review: The Other Half of the Sky, edited by Athena Andreadis
- Space Oddity Cover … in space!
- John W. Campbell and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award Nominations Announced
- First Look: JJ Abram’s ‘Almost Human’ on FOX
- Riddick Returns with a new trailer
- Robots! Monsters! A New Pacific Rim Trailer!
- SyFy shuts down Warehouse 13 with a 5th and final season
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- What a Stormtrooper Is Made Of
- Trilobites: The Greatest Survivors in Earth’s History
- The History (and Future) of Commercial Space Flight
- Nine Scifi Books That Deserve To Be Films
- “Wired for War” Asks What Happens When Robots Kill for Us
- Guns, Bugs and Powered Armor: The Most Realistic Military Science Fiction
- The 3 Laws May Not Be Enough To Guide Robot Warriors
- 10 Unsinkable Science Fiction Stories About The Titanic
- This day in 1970: Apollo 13 Returns Home
- A History of Uranium, the Rock That Nuked the World
- What’s The Difference Between Space Opera and Military SF?
- We’re Heading For A New Cold War, Argues Futurist
- The Cold War in Science Fiction
- What Stargate Universe Can Teach The Business World
- Your Military Science Fiction Isn’t Military Science Fiction
- “Shadowline” Follows A Family of Mercenaries In Space (Repost from SF Signal)
- Obama’s Plans For NASA: Mars By 2030, $6 Billion Budget Increase Today
- Paolo Bacigalupi’s “Ship Breaker” imagines the polluted future of the Gulf Coast (Repost from Worlds in a Grain of Sand)
- What is Military Science Fiction?
- The Era of American Space Exploration is Just Beginning
- Is Military Science Fiction Nationalistic?
- [Book Review] The Neil DeGrasse Tyson Book You Should Give To All Your Friends
- Minority Report really did predict the future
- Some of the Coolest Space War Stories You’ve Ever Seen
- One Anthology Contains the Most Amazing Visions of Future Japan
- The History of How We Discovered All the Planets in the Solar System
(Column: Brief History of Speculative Fiction)
- A Meeting in Geneva: The Birth of ‘Frankenstein’
- The Strange Tale of Edgar Allan Poe and Jules Verne
- Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012
- H.G. Wells and the Decline of Empires
- Jules Verne’s Moonshot
- Looking Far, Far into the Future: Olaf Stapledon
- Adapting Philip K. Dick in ‘Total Recall’ and more
- Hugo Gernsback: To Great Heights and Down Again
- Rounding out the Science Romances
- Exploring Lost Worlds: Arthur Conan Doyle’s Professor Challenger
- A Brief History of the Vampire Novel
- Revisiting Bram Stoker’s Horror Masterpiece, ‘Dracula’
- H.P. Lovecraft and the Other
- A Kind of Fairy Tale: George MacDonald
- J.R.R. Tolkien and the Great War
- There and Back Again: A Hobbit’s Tale (Reprinted in Portuguese in Dagon Magazine)
- T.H. White’s ‘Once and Future King’
- The Amazing Adventures of E.E. ‘Doc’ Smith
- Edgar Rice Burroughs and the Moons of Mars
- The Many Names of Catherine Lucille Moore
- John Campbell Jr., ‘Astounding Magazine’ And the Start of the Golden Age
- Isaac Asimov and the Three Laws of Robotics
- Leigh Brackett’s Planetary Romances
- Asimov, de Camp and Heinlein at the Naval Air Experimental Station
- The Connections of Judith Merril
- The Futurians and the 1939 World Science Fiction Convention
- Feature Interview: Richard K. Morgan
- Artist Spotlight: Elena Bespalova
- Author Spotlight: Mark Pantoja
- Author Spotlight: Paul McAuley
- Author Spotlight: Keith Brooke
- Author Spotlight: Dale Bailey
- Author Spotlight: David Langford
- Author Spotlight: Eileen Gunn
- Author Spotlight: Jake Kerr
- Author Spotlight: David Brin
- Author Spotlight: Ken Liu
- Author Spotlight: Scott Edelman
- Author Spotlight: Robert Reed
- Author Spotlight: Sandra McDonald
- Author Spotlight: Tom Crosshill
- Author Spotlight: Marta Randall
- Author Spotlight: Jeffrey Ford
- Year’s Best 2012: Alan DeNiro on “Walking Stick Fires”
- Year’s Best 2012: Alexandra Duncan on “Rampion”
- Year’s Best Interview #17: Elizabeth Hand on “Near Zennor”
- Year’s Best Interview #33: Yoon Ha Lee on “Ghostweight”
SFSignal (Nominated for Hugo Award for Best Fanzine in 2012 & 2013, won in 2012):
- SF Signal Archives (2011 and earlier)
- Review: Shadow Ops: Control Point, by Myke Cole
- Mind Meld: Our Favorite SF/F Movie and TV Soundtracks
- Review: Shadows in Flight, by Orson Scott Card
- Interview: Myke Cole on ‘Military Fantasy’
- Review: Hitchers, by Will McIntosh
- Interview: Will McIntosh
- Review: 2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Review: Roadside Picnic by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- Review: Spin the Sky: An Orbital Odyssey by Katy Stauber
- Review: Revolution (Pilot)
- Review: Last Resort (Pilot)
- Review: Elementary (Pilot)
- … And Another Thing, Well Played, Disney. Well paid.
- Interview: Chuck Wendig on “Blackbirds”
- Review: Land of Hope and Glory by Geoffrey Wilson
- Review: Star Wars and History edited by Nancy R. Reagin and Janice Liedl
- And Another Thing…What’s With All The Trailer Hype?
- And Another Thing…J.J. Abrams is the Safe Choice
- Book Review: Fortress Frontier, by Myke Cole
- MIND MELD: SF/F Book Recommendations for Teens 13-16
- Interview with Tom King, Author of “A Once Crowded Sky”
- Review: Defiance (Pilot)
- Book Review: Robert A. Heinlein: In Dialogue with His Century: Volume 1 (1907-1948): Learning Curve, by William H. Patterson, Jr.
- TV Review: Borealis (Pilot Episode) – Watch a Fantastic 90 Minute SciFi Debut Right Here!
The Unofficial Clone Wars Site (Interviews)
- Aaron Allston
- Brandon Badeaux
- Tom Hodges
- Karen Traviss: Part 1, Part 2
- Michael Reaves, Part 1, Part 2
- John Ostrander
- Steven Barnes Part 1, Part 2
- Jan Duursema , Part 2
- Joe Corroney
- Michael Stackpole: Part 1, Part 2
- Matthew Stover: Part 1, Part 2
- ReaderCon Panel Recap: “How I Wrote The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms”
- ReaderCon Panel Recap: “Everybody Loves Dirigibles—Science For Tomorrow’s Fiction”
- ReaderCon Panel Recap: “Folklore and its Discontents”
- ReaderCon Panel Recap: “The New And Improved Future of Magazines”
- ReaderCon Panel Recap: “Global Warming and Science Fiction”
- ReaderCon Panel Recap: “Citizens of the World, Citizens of the Universe”
- ReaderCon Panel Recap: “Interstitial Then, Genre Now”
- ReaderCon Panel Recap: “New England, At Home to the Unheimlich”
- The History of The Bat-Man
Audio
SF Signal Podcast (Nominated for the 2012 Hugo Award for Best Fancast):
- SF Signal Podcast, Episode 2
- SF Signal Podcast, Episode 4
- SF Signal Podcast, Episode 6
- SF Signal Podcast, Episode 7
- SF Signal Podcast, Episode 59
- SF Signal Podcast, Episode 101
- SF Signal Podcast (Episode 113): Military Science Fiction, Part 1
- SF Signal Podcast (Episode 115): Military Science Fiction, Part 2
- SF Signal Podcast (Episode 123): Military Science Fiction, Part 3
- SF Signal Podcast (Episode 127)
Live
Conferences:
- 2009 Fall Conference, Northeast Popular Culture Association: Byron Clark, YMCA Camp Abnaki and the Progressive Era.
- 2010 Spring Conference, New England Historical Association: The Military Roots of Manned Spaceflight.
- 2012 Spring Conference, New England Historical Association: Norwich University and the Battle of the Bulge.
- 2012 Fall Conference, New England Historical Association: Panel Chair, Books and Cultures
- 2013 New Genre Army Conference, University of Lincoln: War Fighting Generations and Interpretation in SF
- 2013 Colby Symposium, Norwich University: Norwich University & the European Campaign in WWII
- 2013 75 Years of Science Fiction: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Vermont: Setting Up the Golden Age of Science Fiction
