Global Wahrman

How could I have lived in Los Angeles so long and not know that Harlan Ellison's old house is a landmark.  Not open to the public, it is...

draft I wish to note that Ursula K LeGuin is dead. She was a great influence on me growing up. It makes me ashamed to have failed...

draft All I know about this story is that Molly Gloss wrote it, that it was published on Strange Horizons, and that Jeff VanderMeer rec...

Whenever we see a threatened community in this chaotic world stand fast and united in support of fundamental values I think it is importa...

Warning, this post contains very modest spoilers associated with the novel Station Eleven by Emily Mandel. They are not much of a spoiler...

First Uber, then Jaunt, two of my favorite words, now gone forever. Or at least as long as I live. It used to be that I could show s...

I am 12:40 seconds into Prometheus (2012). I like to give these timeless epic movies a few years to age before I see them.  Usually I w...

The following contains limited spoilers about Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy.  It does not discuss details or plot points, but d...

Education for young people is an area that most agree should be improved but there is no consensus as to what should be done to improve i...

If one wants to know the very essence of Hollywood creativity, look no further than Ender's Game . It is the very height of what ma...

[I have had two comments from friends.  Tom Barron saw some version in 1973 as a student at CalArts thus proving that whatever I saw in 19...

On Oct 13, 1912, two and a half years after the approach of Halley's Comet to the earth, the Salt Lake Tribune's Sunday Section as...

[Colleagues have asked, where is a picture of Wendy Wahrman?  When I get a suitable picture of Wendy I will post it].  Once upon a time I...