GREAT REVIEWS!

There’s a great review of ESPionage: Regime Change in the January-February Analog. And just today, Kirkus says “A sublime, diverting hybrid-genre tale with chic supernatural powers and series potential.” And yes, we’re working on sequels.https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/tom-easton/espionage-regime-change/

Another Great Review

Of ESPionage: Regime Change at https://www.analogsf.com/current-issue/the-reference-library/ .

Great Review

New Novel!

ESPionage: Regime Change. Order now at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGG6GH5G/ When the Russians start an undeclared war to bring down the West with assassinations and disinformation attacks, the CIA reactivates a psychic agent from its old Project Stargate to fight off the attacks. Together with agents who once worked for Russia, France, and Mexico—plus a couple of youngsters—he […]

The Nature of Intelligence

Many years ago, another writer asked me for help in describing an alien intelligence. Being a theoretical biologist (which means a generalist), I was game. According to some reports I had recently read, intelligence was a product of a brain with multiple modules, each one specializing in a sense such as sight or hearing or […]

Would You Believe?

It was recently revealed that Presidential aspirant and Florida governor Ron DeSantis is a majority stockholder in Jacksonville-based Kissy-Missy, Inc. Many Florida state officials and legislators have also bought stock in the company, as have a number of conservative religious leaders. Kissy-Missy is named for the new libido-boosting drug, kisspeptin, which the company is incorporating […]

Blogging without Registering

When I first saw (on FacePlant) this denial of First Amendment rights, I thought it had to be a joke from a Russian bot. After all, it’s just the sort of thing a Russian dictator would want! But it’s real! See https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/florida-bill-require-bloggers-write-governor-legislators-register-stat-rcna73191 . So now we know–the Florida GQP is Russian agents. And I am […]

Silicon Poetry

Not long after my first experiments in random text generation (a Basic program that pretended to be a psychic), a friend got into a squabble with the Maine State Arts Commission. He had applied to be a “writer in the schools.” Unfortunately, his credentials consisted of several science fiction novels, and the Commission was dominated […]

Writing for Tomorrow–Then

In the late 1990s, the Internet was less than a decade old. Those of us who remembered the first fumbling steps toward it—dialing in to CompuServe and Genie , squealing modems, email that was batched at night when long distance rates were low (response times were a day at best, not seconds)—thought we were living […]

INVESTOR SHARKS

You may have heard that investors are flocking to those parts of Florida wrecked by Hurricane Ian, hoping to grab real estate at fire-sale prices. Of course, they’re going to have trouble unloading what they buy. Smart people know that there will be more hurricanes just as bad–and worse. https://www.foxbusiness.com/real-estate/homebuyers-flock-florida-cities-devastated-hurricane-ian The devastated areas could be […]