Philosophy professor. Author of 24 books, fiction and nonfiction. I live in a library, next door to a forest. I have a complicated relationship with solitude.
New dark #sciencefiction for our time: THE WAY OF WIND AND RAIN.
A cynical former space ranger and an idealistic young architect pursue a missing scientist, and his formula for human #immortality...
Fully funded on Kickstarter in under 24 hours!
https://t.co/rGGoD8m1vc
"It is because man is attached to himself that he accepts error as truth, lies as reality, violence and ugliness as beauty and justice.”
--Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization.
Very happy to announce that my fantasy adventure novel FELLWATER has been optioned for film development!
More info about the book: https://t.co/d1RfBgiaud
#books#movies
Want to read a short story of mine, for free? "The Golden Mushrooms", available on my Substack:
https://t.co/ZZQkfH2NBD
It's an allegorical tale (you'll see!) about a team of space explorers sent to a jungle planet to search for the previous team. #writing#sciencefiction
All the flag waving, anthem singing, and Canada first stuff is fine but if this groundswell of national pride and identity isn’t explicitly pluralistic, multiracial and democratic then it’s not as different from the ethnonationalist version to the south as we might like to think!
Techno-Futurism Is An Evangelical Religion (but it has an awesome soundtrack).
A brief article about @bearmccreary new single, "The End Of Tomorrow", from his new heavy metal album #TheSingularity.
https://t.co/A3Grekuk5T
#technology#futurism#religion
Valentine’s Day is coming up.
Some guys get flowers for the women they admire. Or dinner and a movie. Or they sing to her at karaoke.
I once wrote a whole novel for a woman who I loved.
(Which was actually very foolish of me.)
But I’ll do it again.
#ValentinesDay
In the last few weeks I’ve come to wonder: how much of the #philosophy work I’ve done really was a search for reality and truth, and how much of it was a search for someone or some community who might say “Yeah, you’re right, I feel it too, I agree.”
This year's new edition of my Outline History Of Western Thought is now up on my website. Here’s the URL:
https://t.co/OZcPHhcmVQ
This year's new Glossary will follow later.
#philosophy#history
Today is the LAST DAY to get WHISPERLIGHTS at this low price - my philosophical swashbuckling YA+ adventure novel.
The #Kickstarter ends at 10pm EST. #books
https://t.co/PAjg1Ju6jQ