Recent content by A. E. Lowan

We had an Atari. During his first deployment, my dad was one of the techs on hand to test out a new sonar system. In 1960-something. In the Med. He broke a submarine with it. His second deployment, he went Medical. But! he never stopped playing with tech. I once watched him rewire a...

We call it the What-If Game. I haven't met a writer who doesn't play it in some capacity. Those capacities can vary wildly, but we all still start off with, "Well, what if...?" Our current set of books start with the question, "What if the varsity team of heroes went out of town for the...

I hate pandas? :D

That sounds like my level of crazy. Nice!

Wendy I don't know, but Richard's gone full on old man yelling at clouds.

Elfquest was one of my great obsessions growing up. You're in for a good time.

Finite. I have limited battery life, so I try to spend it wisely. I can mask like a beast. There are people in the world who think I'm a natural leader and hypercompetent. And I tell lies for a living. All of this takes a ton of energy that I generally don't have, so we try to focus me into...

Sad panda?

For the record, I hate pandas. They're idiotic, aggressive, often unable to mate in the wild because they can't figure out how to. It's eaten its way up the bamboo to extinction, a dead end. And yet, we pile money and effort into saving them while somehow not stopping the forces that push them...

Have you had a chance to check out Emily Wilson's translations of the Iliad and the Odyssy? I think you'll appreciarte her perspectioves ands how very small changes can resonate through not only a work, but through time, itself. She's created something iconic...

Then we get the real fun. Nailing the timing, which is often an auditory thing, in text where you have little control of how a reader paces your prose.

Twelfth Night. Probably my favorite.

In that humor relies heavily on social cues to make the funny flow, like timing. Timing is crucial to humor. And timing is also crucial to communication between adult humans, which is what trips up so many autists. We don't speak People-Monkey very well, and the other People-Monkeys pick up on...

Okay, I need to ask. Why the SFWA hate? I think I've missed something. And we're talking about the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America? They of Writer Beware fame?

Last time I had a safe link to the numbers, I think pirates have put more of our books in hands than we have. Which is a bit frustrating and Joiners get further in Publishing than lurkers. Just sayin'. It is. It's a whole lot. But, personally, I'm too dumb to quit. Irish. Obstinate is a breed...