Author Archives: jamesdmacdonald

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
For about the first decade and a half of my post-undergrad life, I moved house on a regular basis, progressing first through a series of progressively less crappy apartments and then through two stateside and one overseas Navy billets.  This did a great job of keeping the accumulation…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
This weekend, Jim Macdonald and I are going to be at Albacon, in (surprise, surprise) Albany, New York.  This will be the first convention we’ve fully attended since Arisia, back in January — Readercon was a bar-and-lobby con for us this summer, for one reason and another, so…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Debra Jess’s new Thunder City romance novel, Blood Hunter, is out today.  I feel sort of grandparental towards it, because I was the editor. Links for Blood Hunter and the other Thunder City novels and stories can be found at her web page; they’re available in all of…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
President Trump, in his infinite fatuity, has decided to call for a United States Space Force. This peeves me no end. We came up with the idea of a Space Force years ago, in our novel The Price of the Stars, and now people reading our books are…

Originally posted on Dr. Doyle's Blog:
Or, to be more specific, a new porch. Because the hardships and foul weather of this past winter caused the porch and steps of our house to transition from merely dilapidated to actively collapsing, and Steps (see what I did there?) Had To Be Taken. So carpenters came…