Author Archives: Gene Stewart

About Gene Stewart

Born 7 Feb 1958 Altoona, PA, USA Married 1980 Three sons, grown Have lived in Japan, Germany, all over US Currently in Nebraska I write, paint, play guitar Read widely Wide taste in music, movies Wide range of interests Hate god yap Humanist, Rationalist, Fortean Love the eerie

Where DID I Put My Code Keys?

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/why-government-researchers-think-we-may-be-living-in-a-2d-hologram /// More science, and increasing numbers of scientists, agree on this every year, and it’s beginning to worry me because I think I’m a glitch. More seriously: Information system, they postulate. Reminds me of VALIS. Vast Active Living Information … Continue reading

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Social Media Res

Uriel’s Machine lies sprawled everywhere if we but look. High culture meant something else in the past. Not electronics or powered technology; It meant integrating humanity with the natural world In which our lives are immersed, of which we are … Continue reading

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Schlöß Falke

Falke, the Baron Schreier’s castle, technically a schlöß because it locks several mountain passes, sits on a mountain peak three thousand meters in altitude, surrounded by wooded slopes, plunging river ravines, and rocky cliffs. Its estate extends into three valleys … Continue reading

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Crash At Corona by Don Berliner & Stanton T. Friedman, A Review

Crash at Corona The U.S. Military Retrieval and Cover-Up of a UFO The Definitive Study of the Roswell Incident by Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman Paraview Special Editions, 2004 Originally published by Marlowe & Co. in 1992, updated in … Continue reading

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Heart Eater: How I Got Here

I’m a successful writer. It’s the publishers failing me. That sounds like an ironic joke but consider: I’ve been a writer for 48 years, submitting (at first sporadically, I admit), for 40 years, and publishing for 24 years. My first … Continue reading

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Boiling the Censorship Frog

First they come for your “porn”. To protect the children, don’tcha know? Then they come for your erotica. Slippery slope when wet, right? Then they come for your horror. All those unhealthy images. Next they come for your young adult … Continue reading

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Writerly Whining

I’ve just finished fixing galleys of an anthology story made juvenile and riddled with errors by the editors, who evidently don’t know to from too from two, among other horrors such as inserted exclamation marks, italicized words that are also … Continue reading

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A Blurt About TV Writing

Remember when the Fonz jumped the shark?  That phrase has come to mean when a series, out of ideas, goes too far into the ridiculous, going against established character and general series logic, solely for something to to so the … Continue reading

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Climate Change Tarantella: A Plea for Culture Change

If you inform yourself of climate changes, you clearly see the pattern compressing and worsening. Yes, it’s always changed, but never this steeply this fast, and never with such consequences. It is not inevitable to collapse a stable system. That’s … Continue reading

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Black Dahlia & White Rose by Joyce Carol Oates Ecco/Harper-Collins hardcover, 1st edition 274pp ISBN: 978-0-06-219569-2 A Review by Gene Stewart Although arguably there is but a hint of werewolf in only one of these eleven dark, gleaming tales, readers … Continue reading

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