by Bill DeSmedt | Aug 11, 2021 | Stories
Mind Games — As Part I of this “Making of a Thriller” blog series drew to a close, it alluded to a conundrum on which the plot of my technothriller Dualism was said to turn. Which is to say that Dualism the novel spends at least part of its time grappling with Dualism...
by Bill DeSmedt | Aug 4, 2021 | Stories
The MacGuffin Hunt — Two scenes and a thought experiment, that’s where my second technothriller, Dualism, started. For a while there after I finished writing Singularity, I thought I was done writing, period. I’d exorcised this incubus of an idea that’d had me...
by Bill DeSmedt | Jul 28, 2021 | Stories
The Story Of … My Meeting with Roger — Many years ago now, I had the privilege of spending the better part of a weekend with sf&f great Roger Zelazny. It was back in the early ’nineties, and the Computer-Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO),...
by Bill DeSmedt | Jul 21, 2021 | Stories
“And by the way, you know, when you’re telling these little stories? Here’s a good idea — have a point. It makes it SO much more interesting for the listener!” — Steve Martin as Neal Page to John Candy as Del Griffith, Planes,...
by Bill DeSmedt | Jul 14, 2021 | Stories
Last time we left off with the story of a seasoned naval officer, in command of several hundred million dollars worth of missile cruiser, and responsible for Lord knows how many lives, steaming straight into a powder-keg confrontation, and what does he do? He makes up...
by Bill DeSmedt | Jul 7, 2021 | Stories
Stories about Stories — This first story harks back to the era of the Iran-Iraq war. As recounted by sociologist Gary Klein in his Decision Making in Complex Military Environments,[1] it goes like this: In an incident in which Iranian F-4s had taken off and were...
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