glenn, Author at Glenn Harris

Star Bridge

Written by glenn on November 29, 2014 · Leave a Comment

I’ll just say it straight out: Star Bridge is, hands down, the best science fiction novel you’ve probably never heard of. Written by James Gunn and Jack Williamson, two of the old masters, and published in 1955, it is a classic example of space opera. The primary players: One man, […]

Living Young

Written by glenn on October 23, 2014 · Leave a Comment

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My next birthday will be…old. Actuarially speaking, I could drop dead at any moment. Does that concern me? Are you nuts? Do you expect me to be all Courageous Blasé Guy and say it doesn’t? Of course it concerns me. I mean, we’re talking DEATH here. Finis. Nada more. The […]

Major Teaser! Chapter One of One Deadly Game!

Written by glenn on March 23, 2014 · Leave a Comment

NOTE: Since I haven’t finished writing the book and thus have not completed my edits, I can’t guarantee that this is word-for-word what the first chapter will look like when I’m done…but it’s at least very close to the finished product. I hope you enjoy it and that it makes […]

A Few Words in Favor of Discipline

Written by glenn on January 25, 2014 · Leave a Comment

There can be no topic more grim than the celebration of self-discipline. Feel free to forgo this blog post and hope for better next time. For both of you who are hanging in here with me, let me tell you what I have learned over the years about maintaining routines—of […]

The Rabid Dog and the Little Girl Next Door

Written by glenn on January 11, 2014 · Leave a Comment

I think I’ll begin this year’s series of blog posts by thanking the little girl next door who gave me the last half-century or so. I don’t remember her name and I’m not even sure that I knew it then. I was only five or six years old when she […]

My Daily Ritual

Written by glenn on November 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment

I’m reading a book entitled Daily Rituals: How Artists Work by Mason Curry, which is exactly what it sounds like it would be. The revelation (to me) is that so many artists—painters, writers, composers—had almost unvarying routines around which they built their work. A remarkable number of them seem to […]

En Plein Air

Written by glenn on September 15, 2013 · Leave a Comment

Most people know about plein air painting—painting in the open air, focusing on the natural surroundings. The Columbia Center for the Arts in Hood River, Oregon, is one of the few—and maybe was the first—to sponsor plein air writing. There’s an annual event, the most recent just concluded, that features […]

The Hallucinating Lady

Written by glenn on August 29, 2013 · Leave a Comment

There are so many stories out there. Everyone you see is in the middle of his or her story—most often multiple stories. What they’re dreaming of. What they fear. What they think is happening. What’s really happening. And sometimes, just for a moment or two, you find yourself a character […]

The Tale of the Headless Chicken

Written by glenn on August 12, 2013 · Leave a Comment

I recently saw a Facebook status update in which someone said that today she was a “chicken with its head cut off”—meaning, of course, that she was running around without direction. And it struck me that I may be one of the few in my circle who have actually SEEN […]

The Writing Life

Written by glenn on July 27, 2013 · 2 Comments

I don’t know anything more exciting than starting a new book – nor anything more scary than finishing one. In the beginning there’s a wonderful new story forming in your imagination, growing and blossoming and spreading out like the most beautiful flower you’ve ever seen. (Yes, it’s that good.) There […]