As I’ve probably said before, one of the best parts of the Deal Me In Short Story Reading Challenge is finding new-to-me writers. This week, I found Eric James Spannerman, which is a brilliant name for someone who writes, among other things, Steampunk. Well done,…

At this year’s InConjunction Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention, I was on a panel about AI — Artificial Intelligence, for you non-science-nerds out there. Having found myself on a panel with a PhD who had programmed AI, a guy with a degree in philosophy of…