HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ORIGIN OF SPECIES

Today, November 24, 2009, is the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s masterwork, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. In future postings I’ll have a lot to say about this remarkable book and its extraordinary author: the coming of the Darwinian worldview, after all, is the ( Read more... )

February began auspiciously for people with nothing better to do with their time than read James Morrow’s fiction.

My stand-alone novella Shambling Towards Hiroshima was released on the first of the month, and the Perennial trade paperback edition of The Philosopher’s Apprentice appeared a few days later.

Set in 1945, Shambling Towards Hiroshima is ( Read more... )

If you have nothing better to do on October 17-19, pop over to Washington D.C. for Capclave, to which I have been appointed Author Guest of Honor. I’m especially eager to hold forth on the Saturday afternoon panel called “Science versus Religion.” For my public reading, I’ll offer a scene from my forthcoming novella, Shambling Towards Hiroshima, ( Read more... )

McCAIN AND THE ENABLER

With Thursday night’s Vice Presidential debate, the race for the White House took on a decidedly surrealistic tone. I now see the bizarre duo of John McCain and Sarah Palin as the principal characters in a kind of reversed-polarity Doctor Who, with McCain as a malign Time Lord, flitting about the cosmos starting wars and ( Read more... )

LETTING GO OF POOKA ( Read more... )

March 18, Reading and Signing at Joseph-Beth Booksellers, Pittsburgh PA, 7:00 PM ... March 19, Reading and Signing at Barnes & Noble, State College PA, 7:00 PM ... March 20-22, Appearance at International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Orlando FL ... March 27, Reading and Signing at Borders Books and Music, Bryn Mawr PA, 7:00 PM ... March ( Read more... )

SUPER SUNDAY AND SUPER TUESDAY

Although fiction is, and always will be, stranger than truth, this was the week in which two underdog teams, the New York Giants and the Arkansas Theocrats, scored unexpected successes under the leadership of Eli Manning and Mike Huckabee respectively.

Before landing here in State College, Pennsylvania, I lived near ( Read more... )

A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION

To blog or not to blog?  That is the question that plagued me throughout 2006 and 2007.  The cause of my procrastination was not complex.  I simply felt obligated to focus my creative energies on fiction writing.  I did not blog for the same reason that most NFL players do not play chess on the night before a game.

But now my ( Read more... )

SUMMER OF THE WITCH ( Read more... )

LYING TO CHILDREN ( Read more... )