Lawrence Watt-Evans

The world would be a better place if people read more books

Whenever I say we should return to 1940-1980 tax levels for the super wealthy (billionaires) of 91%+ marginal tax I hear, "If you do that, billionaires will leave the USA."

To which I say:
1. Promise? Because it didn't happen last time.
2. Don't threaten me with a good time.
#AbolishBillionaires

A Midsummer Night's Dream.

One started as a carpenter's mate on one of the last sail-powered freighters, but eventually wound up as a naval architect at the Philadelphia Navy Yard.

The other taught high school physics in Brooklyn.

I grew up near the Strategic Air Command base charged with defending Boston from Soviet bombers -- near enough that the beacon atop the control tower shone in my bedroom window all night, every night. The Nike missile site was just across town in the other direction.

I was born in 1954. I remember all that, and a society built around cocktails and cigarettes, where doctors handed out amphetamines and barbiturates to housewives as a matter of course. Any time anyone talks about the 1950s as a Golden Age, I know they weren't there.

Not this time. The third in that series, The Ruins of Mars, is in the works but has a very long way to go.

Remembrance of Thing to Come Check out Remembrance of Thing to Come - <p>A collection of twenty-nine science fiction and fantasy stories (and one poem) by award-winning author Lawrence Watt-Evans, including one that has never bee...

I have a new short story collection out:
bookshop.org/p/books/reme...

The "this is fine" dog meme comic, but he's saying "so I have a book coming out".

*sigh*

TACO

Weird. I find starting the easy, fun part; it's continuing and completing that gives me trouble. I have literally dozens of opening scenes or chapters lying around, waiting for me to write the rest.

I think it's the coloring that really makes it work. I know that's why I bought it all those years ago.

I put President Trump’s immigration enforcement officials on notice.

After he leaves office, federal agents and officials who have broken the law during this cruel mass deportation effort can still be prosecuted and held accountable for their violations of the Constitution and federal law.

I don't think tonight's dinner was the worst beef I've ever eaten, but it was in the top five.

Five (make it six) women by whom I've read at least five books:

Agatha Christie
Dorothy Sayers
Seanan McGuire
Tanith Lee
Anne McCaffrey
Charlotte Armstrong

Not from me. When I was a kid and my Dad took me to the barber he always instructed them, "Part on the left." No one ever asked ME, and I've been trying to get rid of that stupid part ever since.

It is, once again, backup day. Backup your stuff! Repost to remind a friend to also back up their stuff.

The Grand Kyiv Ballet performance of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." The dwarfs were all a bit on the tall side for dwarfs, but one must make allowances. A photo from near the end, where the prince is carrying off the newly-awakened Snow White while the dwarfs and assorted happy little forest creatures watch.

Last night we saw the Grand Kyiv Ballet perform "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," which was fun. The dwarfs were all a bit on the tall side for dwarfs, but one must make allowances.

Well, my grandmother did. A sinus infection, 1923.

Not to belittle Nightingale, but in Vienna a guy named Ignatz Semmelweiss was trying to teach continental doctors the same thing at about the same time. They didn't want to listen because he was a lower-class Jew.

I wouldn't say "all the time," but you're far from the first to tell me that. I'm very proud whenever I hear it.

I remember Alistaire Cooke's introduction when Masterpiece Theater showed "Cold Comfort Farm." He assured Americans not to worry if they couldn't make out the thick rural accents; most English viewers couldn't, either.

All of them.

1. Rogue
2. Galadriel
3. Zatanna
4. Jadzia Dax

Thanks to retirement savings, pensions, royalties, Social Security, and some good investments, I AM guaranteed a comfortable living for the rest of my life, and it hasn't had much effect on my social media use that I can see.

It's meant I write less, though, since I only work when I feel like it.

And notice that the tax assessment is $1.5 million.

European Parliament Votes Overwhelmingly For "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women" The resolution, though nonbinding, is a significant shot at those who seek to erode transgender rights on the continent.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women."

Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration.

It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women.

Our latest.

Bring it on.

I had a friend named Bud; I'd known him for years before I found out that his legal birth name was Clarence.

Orville Celestine -- I was named after the physicist Ernest Orlando Lawrence. My mother wouldn't let my father name me Ernest, and he wouldn't let her name me Orlando.

Hell, two of my four sisters never used their actual first names.