From the desk of Joseph Green

Here are some of my thoughts on science and science fiction, plus an occasional breaking of the fourth wall into the RealWorld. Enjoy!

No Grandson on the Moon

MY SIGNATURE rests on the Moon. While it contributed nothing to the American space program, I get a lot of personal satisfaction from the above. It came about this way. Shortly before John Young, Charles Duke and Ken Mattingly lifted off on the Apollo 16 mission, many...

Who Really Wrote Hard Choices?

WHILE HILLARY CLINTON was on her recent Hard Choices book tour, a writer/editor I know asked a perhaps difficult question: Who, he wondered, wrote it for her? Clearly, the writer presumed Hillary had not in fact written the book she was signing as her own. Having a...

When You Have a Choice . . .

PEOPLE OTHER THAN his devoted fans know Leonard Cohen primarily thru a few of his songs that became major hits, prominent among them "Suzanne", "Bird On The Wire", "Marianne" and "Hallelujah". Many others, including some recorded by other artists, such as Judy Collins...

Roger Elwood and Me (Part II)

(continued from Part I) I MET ROGER ELWOOD a couple of times at Cons, and in person he was a perfectly congenial chap. Other writers have spoken of difficulties with Elwood, some regarding story content and a few of payment problems.  I encountered neither, though of...
No Grandson on the Moon

No Grandson on the Moon

MY SIGNATURE rests on the Moon. While it contributed nothing to the American space program, I get a lot of personal...