• Conspiracies, Chapter Four

    Chapter Four I didn’t try to conceal my bewilderment. “I still don’t get it. You say you’re in deep trouble. Somebody trying to put a quarter of a million dollars in your pocket in return for letting him publish your book, offhand doesn’t come out sounding like serious bad news to me, George. Maybe I’m…

  • George Chiari after Tibet (November, 2000)

    [The prologue from one version of Conspiracies of Men and God, my unfinished novel of politics and metaphysics.] Prologue: The year 2000 It was the night Al Gore conceded. My wife and the girls were out Christmas shopping, and I was in my living room with the two Georges — my elder brother George and…

  • Slade’s Revenge, Chapter 1

    [Yet another beginning of a novel that links consciousness and politics and spy stuff and conspiracies…. Also unfinished, put here for those who may be amused by it.] Slade’s Revenge Chapter 1 This was back in 1984, before email, before cell phones, before home faxes. Hell, it was practically before answering machines. Not that any…

  • Slade’s Revenge, Chapter 2

     [More browsing through old files of discarded would-be fiction.] Chapter Two              Henry and his brother were sitting in Henry’s car, which was sitting in Joe’s garage, out of sight of hypothetical passers-by. It was after 11. Joe’s kids were asleep, and so was Rosalie, but Henry had insisted that they adjourn to the garage,…

  • Babe in the Woods

    Thanks to all who have said so many nice things about the fiction I posted here. It’s very gratifying to get appreciation for one’s children, you know. Currently I am 80,000 words into “Babe in the Woods,” which looks likely to become my first completed novel since Messenger. I am very tempted to post it,…

  • “To Walk a Landscape Is to Know It”

    Immersed as I am in finishing my novel, I have been neglecting this blog (not that there isn’t plenty here if you just go rummaging through the archives!). As a sort of space-holder until I can return, here’s a very nice piece my brother forwarded on to me. From http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/travel/06Personal.html?ex=1200546000&en=3254cd6c0d644770&ei=5070&emc=eta1 To Walk a Landscape Is…

  • What happens AFTER the eleventh hour?

    A friend draws my attention to this column in the blog The Archdruid Report that I was touting recently. Since I know that sometimes it can be just too much trouble even to follow a hypertext link – such as http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2007/08/twelfth-hour.html — I copied it below as a sort of free sample of important thinking…

  • Babe in the Woods

    Getting there. Into the home stretch, now. In the past few weeks, I have written 105,000 words, and have only a dozen sections more to write. This is by far the best writing I’ve done. Where Messenger was a pretty straightforward tale with only a few major characters, Babe in the Woods is intricate and…

  • Babe in the Woods

    First draft finished yesterday morning at about 111,000 words. Now I need to let it sit for a few days, then re-read it making notes of what it needs to be a finished product. But I’m really happy with how it came out. What really happens inside a mystey school? Or, to put it into…

  • Proposed future production

    The other day, I sat down and sketched out the books I have written and those I have yet to write, and came up with the following list. This ought to keep me busy. Titles of books not yet written are in [brackets] Fiction Messenger George Chiari in Tibet learns about inner worlds Babe in…