Sci-fi Editor Pillows

"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

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

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

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

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

Invasion Of The Summer Aliens

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

Alien David statue

Books: Novels, Short-Stories, Tall Tales.

Outer Space Outsourcing

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

News: Deaths! Deaths! Deaths!

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

First Novels.

Reading my Critics

'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?"

Robotic Man

"You left this on our ship."

A Copy Editor and His Dog

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

Punctuation Police

"Please ask your pet to kindly put down the weapon."

1599: Shakespeare's Agent knew what the public wanted