Sci-fi Editor Gifts

"Just look, boss! There are people who take my stories seriously!"

Occu-Pie Mars

"My older self travels back just to remind me to put the cap back on this pen?"

"That's the guy I hired to read Proust for me."

Copycats

"These aren’t the droids you’re looking for."

Hey, calm down --- Now, what did you say again?

"I'm grounded. I forgot to delete the car's computer history after we did those crop circles on Earth."

Squeezing the Free Press.

"No, I didn't steal your content. I just have your content's doppleganger."

It soon became apparent that the vicar was an undercover journalist.

'Darling I want you to remember this always,,,'

Thru versus Through Traffic

...and then I...wait....What's that?? Whoa! We're on a spaceship! This is fun! Hey! What's this button do? Can I pull this lever? Are we there yet? Take a selfie with us? Do we get snacks? Can I drive? Are we there yet? Something we said? Just imagine if we'd been obnoxious!

"Don't worry, they normally look like little humans during the early scans."

Invasion Of The Summer Aliens

"Russ had a novel published two hours ago and has a children's book coming out in 20 minutes."

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

First Novels.

Outer Space Outsourcing

Alien David statue

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

Frontispiece to the first volume of 'Master Humphrey's Clock'

"It's a heck of a tale...and well told, but we don't publish resumes."

Reading my Critics

'R2-D2 is not in. Please leave a message after the beep-wheep-zip-booop ...'

'Some of those youngsters have come up with a terrific new idea - feathers.'

"Look what I found, dad!"

"Well, how do things look from where you sit?"

"You left this on our ship."

Punctuation Police

A Copy Editor and His Dog

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted

"This year we decided to vacation on the 3rd rock."

News and Magazines. Celebrity gossip. Sports scandals. Political bickering. We're out of the "information age" and well into the "too much information age"!