Rick Kleffel:agony Column

The Peripheral

The Peripheral, Chapter One

"...recalibrate my yardstick of weirdness..."

"...recalibrate my yardstick of weirdness..."

"It was very easy to literally just tell their stories..."

Republic of the Imagination: America in Three Books

"I wanted to show how close reality and fiction are..."

"...an unwise decision on my part..."

"...so I add a little more citrus..."

Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen: Learning to Cook with 65 Great Chefs and Over 100 Delicious Recipes

"You're handing us all the problems..." Paolo Bacigalupi "That gray area is so important for readers..." A. S. King

"How much do we really change?"

"...these are perfectly nice people..."

The Doubt Factory

"I have a lot reference materials on my desk..."

Old Albert: An Epilogue and Dreams of Shadow and Smoke: Stories for J.S. Le Fanu

"..trying to create a reality which had not existed before..."

"...that's the choice we make with death..."

Last Stories and Other Stories

"This was the world's first tech start-up."