Pete Heck

Commented on Countdown to Crazy
After watching the celebrations of Biden's win, with many people crammed close together and too many without masks, I'm afraid there'll be a new wave of COVID cases in Democratic areas. Sweet as the victory is, that's just too high...
Commented on Suspense is the key
Dickens gets away with all kinds of crazy shit nobody would dare try nowadays. He's easy to take for granted; sort of the Beethoven (another nasty old dead white dude) of the novel.... but when you really look at what...
Commented on Data, books, and bias
Minor correction -- SFWA eligibility is for life once you qualify, A fair number of members drop out for one reason or another -- often after just a couple of years, Most common reason is probably that they're no longer...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)