Lancer Kind, Science Fiction author

Cory Doctorow’s Little Brother is a call to those that are keeping quiet and just waiting for things to blow over.  It’s a clarion to those waiting for our freedoms to come back.  And it’s an instruction book  for how to fight back rather than sit at home and complain about warrantless wiretapping.
Little Brother is [...]

Until today, I never really understood products that were “New AND Improved.”  I mean, doesn’t it have to be one or the other: New something-something, or Improved something something?
But now I understand: spinning any improvement as “new” (like a new feature), or anything that is New has to be an Improvement (like Vista over XP–er… [...]

I went to Avatar last weekend and let me just cut to the chase: I loved it.  I was practically hoping out of my seat in agony for the main characters, gasping when ex-marine Jake leaped over cliffs, and wishing the bad guys would just this once, stop being so damn bad.
The movie touches on [...]

I’m not in love with the term “alternative” but it works for me when I think about music–a different sound than what is usual for the mainstream media.  Of course many a smart-aleck will say, “If the alternative music genre goes too mainstream, what do you call it then?”  I call it evolution!
You see, the [...]

No one likes to see a changing of the guard. The old guard certainly doesn’t.
Today, someone younger (she was 22) told me “I never saw Star Wars, but I’ve seen Twilight.” <insert my horrified expression here>
This travesty is becoming more common. Star Wars is over 30 years old which is twice the age of the [...]