Ricardo, the protagonist in my novel Jellyfish Have Eyes speculated that jellyfish are smarter than we think, that they have a brain of sorts, and that they interact in jellyfish lingo that we don’t understand - gibberish talk. Jellyfish may be a bit extreme, but I think Ricardo makes his point: don’t be too sure that [...]
My science colleagues asked me how I could switch from research to stories – from science to fiction and back again – as if the two activities were so different that the same person couldn’t do them both. My answer was usually, "I don't know. I just sit at my desk and start writing and [...]
Lucky me! My novel, "Jellyfish Have Eyes," was well reviewed by Joel Shurkin (thank you!) in the National Academy of Sciences website and its journal, Proceedings of the National Academy - a rare case of a first novel not lost in the vast wasteland out there. But what I think is important is that he [...]
