Mom’s bookshelves were a wonderland of universes. Harlan Ellison’s Again, Dangerous Visions (the title of which scared me to death when I was exceedingly young), Fahrenheit 451, The Stand, Down To A Sunless Sea. Simak and Clarke, Hemingway and Steinbeck; Bruce...
THE TOP FIVE THAT CHANGED MY WORLD. PLEASE PLEASE ME - The Beatles Yes there may very well have been better singles that followed from the Fabs but the impact that this infectious classic single made on me at the time can never be denied and nor would I try. ASTRAL...
5 Books That Changed my Life 1. THE SCARECROW OF OZ by L. Frank Baum. I'm not sure why this one was the one to hit me, in particular -- we had a beat-up copy of THE LAND OF OZ at home, and that's the one I read over and over and over again -- but THE SCARECROW OF OZ,...
5 Forgotten Writers Whose Works Inspired Me When I Was Much Younger When I say certain writers are forgotten, that doesn’t mean they’re unknown. It just means that hardly anyone reads them these days. Some of them were famous in their time. Some were...
5 Things Writers Get Wrong About Cars and Driving When, as a pre-teen, I began reading books written for adults, one of the first things I noticed was that every author was a damn botanist. Each descriptive passage, it seemed, lavished...
5 Things Writers Get Wrong About Cars and Driving When, as a pre-teen, I began reading books written for adults, one of the first things I noticed was that every author was a damn botanist. Each descriptive passage, it seemed, lavished...
