Author: Sarah

We are part of the world and in it. To love the other animals of the Earth – or the hypothetical alien – and hate us is strange. Are we not animals? Are we not of the Earth? And who the heck can compete with sentients who exist only in the story teller’s imagination.

Honestly, if aliens wanted to stop humans from reproducing, they couldn’t have come up with a better idea than this! Or if they wanted to ensure those who reproduced oppressed women again, this time without any real biological/technological excuse.

So, blame this on him. The paperback of Darkship Thieves is out. I’m buried in the next Elise Hyatt mystery — A Fatal Stain — which was due a month ago. I will do more Heinlein posts and others as soon as I get this written. Meanwhile, I have put up — again — the…

Periodically people – on facebook, via email, through my site – try to get me to read their manuscripts. Unless they are friends or I know that what they really want is an honest critique, I do not read it. This is difficult, because some of these people are quite, quite, quite persistent and keep…

Dear President Obama, I know there has been a lot of discussion on your remarks that American exceptionalism is the same as Greek exceptionalism or any other nation’s “exceptionalism.” I don’t mean to pile on and I hate to be rude, and I know I’m more than a day late to this and far more…

I’ve been thinking about fiction versus reality, recently. It’s Leonard Cohen’s fault. I was listening to his songs while working, and the song Everybody Knows caused a random firing of neurons that led to fiction and reality. For those who haven’t heard the song – it is about a lot of things that “everybody knows”…

This idea of a scripted future brings forth the same sort of response from me “even if it were true, it would behoove free men and women not to believe it.”

Hi. My name is Sarah and I’m (strongly inclined towards being) a libertarian. The last time I ate a baby for breakfast was yesterday (eggs count, right?) and I spend my days oppressing the poor and persecuting minorities (imaginary characters are minorities, right?) when I’m not off stomping on the downtrodden (how in heck could…

as someone said on my facebook – the internet consists mostly of Heinlein flamewars and porn. (He forgot cute cat pictures and stories, which are a good quarter of the net, but correct in the essentials.)

Oh, yes, I would give everything I own to go back to five minutes before the first plane hit. Five minutes to bask in peace, to savor that golden September sunshine in the twilight of an era about to vanish forever. But it wouldn’t work. I know now we were not at peace, but simply…

Instapundit called this “a disturbing photo essay” when linking to it a couple of weeks back. It did disturb me, but perhaps not in the way me he meant it to. (No, I’m not sure. It never does to second guess Glenn Reynold’s intentions.)

I must first confess that I find picture books, of the sort foisted on kids in their earliest years, inherently creepy. The concepts are boiled to the sort of level where they raise more questions than they answer. Of these books – rivaling with the seriously disturbing Animal Kisses – possibly the creepiest is “Are…

Friends, Americans, countrymen, I bring you tidings of great joy – contrary to everything you hear in the media, to the cries of racism from the usual, loud quarters – we do not have an illegal immigration problem. Much less do we have a racism-against-hispanic-immigrants problem. No, I’m not saying that there are no illegal…

I have no idea if anyone not a writer has an interest in this http://madgeniusclub.blogspot.com/ but many of you are readers, and perhaps it would be of interest to take a look at my road to publication. It is neither unusual nor unusually difficult. It would, however, have been a total shock to me when…

My friend Kate Paulk, blogging at our group blog (Mad Genius Club, Writers’ Division http://madgeniusclub.blogspot.com/2010/03/overthrowing-evil-tyrant.html) has gone after one of the cliches of science fiction and fantasy. The evil overlord. Perhaps this hit me at a vulnerable time, as I’m waiting for an answer to my proposals for sequels to Darkship Thieves – all three…

Let’s talk about Political Correctness. And then let’s dispose of the concept and the mental gags it places on thought, and the knee jerk reactions one way or another, and start using our brains to think about history and culture — beyond race and logically.

I’ve been meaning to post for about a week, but unable to figure out quite how to make my first appearance at Classical Values. This is the equivalent of what I did when I was very young and spent several hours agonizing between two virtually identical outfits before a party. And then, yesterday, on this…