Glen Engel-Cox
@engel-cox.com
Writer, World Traveller, Gamer, Cocktailian. Member of SFWA, NCWW, Codex, Taos2020,21,22. www.engel-cox.com, Patreon.com/gengelcox
Every year, I write a holiday letter in a different style, typically using something that happened in the year as a theme.
You can probably guess what this year's style will be.
You can probably guess what this year's style will be.
December 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Every year, I write a holiday letter in a different style, typically using something that happened in the year as a theme.
You can probably guess what this year's style will be.
You can probably guess what this year's style will be.
Reposted by Glen Engel-Cox
🔥 Phano 12 is live!
www.phano.co/issues/issue...
“Somewhere Between Flesh and Flame” by John Leahy
“She Brings the Stars” by Sam W. Pisciotta
“The Departure” by Cecilia Maddison
Phano Issue 11 if you slept on it…
www.phano.co/issues/issue...
www.phano.co/issues/issue...
“Somewhere Between Flesh and Flame” by John Leahy
“She Brings the Stars” by Sam W. Pisciotta
“The Departure” by Cecilia Maddison
Phano Issue 11 if you slept on it…
www.phano.co/issues/issue...
it looks like a tunnel with a triangle in the middle of it .
ALT: it looks like a tunnel with a triangle in the middle of it .
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December 2, 2025 at 9:25 PM
🔥 Phano 12 is live!
www.phano.co/issues/issue...
“Somewhere Between Flesh and Flame” by John Leahy
“She Brings the Stars” by Sam W. Pisciotta
“The Departure” by Cecilia Maddison
Phano Issue 11 if you slept on it…
www.phano.co/issues/issue...
www.phano.co/issues/issue...
“Somewhere Between Flesh and Flame” by John Leahy
“She Brings the Stars” by Sam W. Pisciotta
“The Departure” by Cecilia Maddison
Phano Issue 11 if you slept on it…
www.phano.co/issues/issue...
#Authors born on Nov 30: John Lyly (Euphues), Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables), Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story), John Dickson Carr, David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross), Chris Claremont (Uncanny X-Men), and Daniel Keyes Moran (The Long Run). #booksky
November 30, 2025 at 4:18 PM
#Authors born on Nov 30: John Lyly (Euphues), Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Lucy Maud Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables), Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story), John Dickson Carr, David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross), Chris Claremont (Uncanny X-Men), and Daniel Keyes Moran (The Long Run). #booksky
#Authors born on November 28 include John Bunyan (The Pilgrim’s Progress), William Blake (Songs of Innocence and Experience), Nancy Mitford (Love in a Cold Climate), Alberto Moravia (The Conformist), Rita Mae Brown (Rubyfruit Jungle), David Zindell (Neverness), and Jon Stewart (America). #booksky
November 28, 2025 at 1:15 PM
In the headline to this article, the first line of Gibson's Neuromancer is called SF's greatest: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” (Note, the article writer starts off with "one of SF's greatest," but, you know, that's not strong enough for a headline.
November 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
In the headline to this article, the first line of Gibson's Neuromancer is called SF's greatest: "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.” (Note, the article writer starts off with "one of SF's greatest," but, you know, that's not strong enough for a headline.
On Shatner's song "I Can't Get Behind That," Henry Rollins rants about tech in music:
if you have to fix it with a computer
Quantized, pitch corrected, and overly inspected
Then you can't do it.
That's my mantra: If you can't ideate, research, draft, and edit a story w/o AI, then you can't do it.
if you have to fix it with a computer
Quantized, pitch corrected, and overly inspected
Then you can't do it.
That's my mantra: If you can't ideate, research, draft, and edit a story w/o AI, then you can't do it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
On Shatner's song "I Can't Get Behind That," Henry Rollins rants about tech in music:
if you have to fix it with a computer
Quantized, pitch corrected, and overly inspected
Then you can't do it.
That's my mantra: If you can't ideate, research, draft, and edit a story w/o AI, then you can't do it.
if you have to fix it with a computer
Quantized, pitch corrected, and overly inspected
Then you can't do it.
That's my mantra: If you can't ideate, research, draft, and edit a story w/o AI, then you can't do it.
Unpopular Opinion: Despite his many flaws, Elon Musk has still made more lasting contributions to human society than LeBron James, Tom Brady, and Nolan Ryan.
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Unpopular Opinion: Despite his many flaws, Elon Musk has still made more lasting contributions to human society than LeBron James, Tom Brady, and Nolan Ryan.
#Authors born on Nov 21: Voltaire (Candide), Isaac Bashevis Singer (A Day of Pleasure), Beryl Bainbridge (Every Man for Himself), Evelyn C. Leeper (fan), and Lisa Goldstein (The Red Magician). #booksky
In 1917, author Maxim Gorky calls Vladimir Lenin a blind fanatic and unthinking adventurer.
In 1917, author Maxim Gorky calls Vladimir Lenin a blind fanatic and unthinking adventurer.
November 21, 2025 at 2:47 PM
#Authors born on Nov 15: May Agnes Fleming (The Midnight Queen), William Hope Hodgson, Marianne Moore, Richmal Crompton (Just William), J.G. Ballard (Crash), Theodore Roszak (The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein), Daniel M. Pinkwater, and Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies). #booksky
November 15, 2025 at 7:56 AM