I'm a science fiction/fantasy novelist published by Tor Books. I'm also a sociologist and independent scholar who writes social commentary and non-fiction articles.
Jack Vance, Robert Silverberg, John Varley, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Andre Norton, E.B. Norton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert Louis Stevenson, Alexandre Dumas per.
At the end of September 2009, renowned climatologist Stefan Rahmstorf spoke to an international climate change conference in Oxford, England. Rahmstorf is a respected authority specializing in analysis of ice melt and sea level changes. He and other climate scientists made this startling announcement: A rise of at least 2 meters (~6 foot) in the world's sea levels is now virtually unstoppable. ...
While we are thinking our present economic travails, and how we got there, mark a low point even for us, I came across this relevant quote in the preface of an obscure work at Google Books: "Not many years ago such an event as the legislative theft of a great franchise was regarded with public horror. A decade ago a national bond steal would have aroused vast indignation. But a nation, like ...