The short story "The City of the Crocodile God," featuring my recurring sword and sorcery heroes Hanno and Thrax, was published in the Spring 2022 issue of Cirsova.
It was a muggy Sunday evening in South Florida, and even in October the mosquitos were out in force, but still, the crowd was eager. We were there at the Pompano Beach Amphitheater, of course, to see Yes, that venerable institution of prog rock, in Florida on their Classic Tales of Yes tour. But as the sun sank low, and the house lights dimmed, it was not the band who took the stage—at least, not the officially. When Roger Dean opened the show it was a better treat for Yes fans than any other opening act could have been. Dean has been an integral part of Yes since the beginning, having designed the famous bubble logo. A consummate draftsman, Dean’s artwork has graced about half the group’s albums, providing a surrealist landscape as a backdrop for some of the greatest prog albums of all time. You might even say that Yes’s honorary sixth member really stole the show, taking the audience through a slide presentation of drawings and paintings, with fascinating revelations of his ar...
My story "Thích Nhất Thở v. Ares Air, Inc." has been published in the autumn issue of Sci Phi Journal . The story is a available to view online here and the entire autumn issue is also free to download here . The dramatic illustration accompanying the story, which is featured above, is a digital re-rendering by Gordon Johnson of a classic etching by an anonymous master.