There have been over twenty-one thousand readings of the reviews in the present blog from readers in one hundred and twenty-two countries. I have reviewed over two hundred and sixty books and movies. Regarding my review of Hitchcock’s The Paradine Case, Bill Krohn, American author (Hitchcock at Work [1999]), critic, and since 1988 the Hollywood reporter for the […]

ABOUT: I was educated at Gilmour Academy and Santa Clara University, worked in the Defense industry on arms control and on artificial intelligence applications, started a consulting company in Silicon Valley, and have been writing full-time since the 1990s. In addition to over 260 movie and book reviews I’ve written, I’ve authored a science fantasy […]

 TOWARD THE POSTHUMAN …the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short. –Thomas Hobbes Now ’tis little joy To Know that I’m farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.   –Thomas Hood   Our earthly existence, since it in itself has a very doubtful meaning, can only be a means towards […]