WHEN THE NIGHT OWL SCREAMS makes Stoker Awards Prelim Ballot


This is how I honor and carry on a minor Roger Zelazny literary tradition…. If you’ve read the Roger Zelazny short story “The Stainless Steel Leech” (first published under the pseudonym Harrison Denmark) then you might remember its wonderful closing line… ‘It is a proud and lonely thing to be a stainless steel leech.’ ———- [From…
How much of the Book of 5 Rings can we apply to the modern Dojo of soccer moms, office workers and children? What can we risk in a world of American lawyers and lawsuits? Musashi was in the business; to the extent he trained people, of turning out killers. He lived a life, often devoid…
“And from the crew of Apollo 8, we close, with good night, good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you, all of you on the good earth.” Frank Boreman Apollo 8 “Robotic exploration is to real exploration as masturbation is to glorious, loving sex.”- Anonymous Nothing is…
The audio book (narrated by the amazing Emmanuel Menjivar) for the shared-world anthology SHA’DAA TOYS is now available on Amazon: Authors: The late C.J. Henderson (RIP – Featuring the last story he ever wrote.) Michael H. Hanson Edward F. McKeown Arthur Sanchez Richard Groller Shebat Legion Joe Bonadonna Robby Hilliard Beth Waggoner Patterson Diane…
The question is, does the “Book of Five Rings” have meaning in our modern world, in the martial arts as we practice them, and even in life more generally? It is important in reading the Rings to understand what Musashi has to say to our modern world, and what he does not. As such, it…
A favorite poem of Michael H. Hanson that was published in 2018 and is eligible in the Short Poem category of the Rhysling Awards. ——– THE SEA HORSE ISLES His father was a fishermanknown for trawling the Sea Horse isles,a stretch of brine only his clanhad dared to challenge with their wiles. They say it…