My father, Thomas B. Allen, and his long-time writing partner, Norman Polmar, have just published a piece on TheAtlantic.con, recounting the frantic behind-the-scenes activity in Tokyo — and attempted coup — that led to the Japanese surrender. Here’s a link to this fascinating story: 70 Years After Hiroshima. It is more than worth a read. […]

We have reached a bit of a pause in terms of rolling out InterstellarNet: Enigma. After wheeling out the five-part serial on a weekly basis, as well as sending out review copies, making parts one and two available as free downloads and so forth, I am catching my breath before the June 30 release of […]

After an amazingly long and involved process (many of these reviewers seem as if they don’t WANT to be found!) I have managed to send off printed review copies of InterstellarNet: Enigma. The official pub date is June 30, 2015, but between you, me, and the wallpost, most such dates are imaginary and have been […]

The best thing you can do for a book is read it. The second-best thing you can do is buy it. (And, of course, we writers would be all in favor of your doing the second one first.) But, if you like a book and want to support it, and help reward the author for […]

As is well known, one of the great dangers of running this sort of web journal is setting the whole damn thing up and then running out of things to say. The Interwebs (aka the World Wide Tubes) are littered with endless sites that promise a new posting by [date years in the past] or […]

Welcome to FoxBytes, the web journal (I hate the word “blog” — though I suppose I’ll wind up using it sometimes) for FoxAcre Press.  There’s a bunch of pretty big news here, but maybe I’d better start near-ish the beginning. My name’s Roger MacBride Allen. I have written about twenty or so science fiction novels, […]