Non-fiction

My non-fiction writing is far less canalized than my fiction, at this point. I’ve published games, puzzles, and trivia, science articles, opinion pieces, and more. My published non-fiction includes:

“Yay! The Future… Oh, Damn.” Analog Science Fiction and Fact (Guest Editorial, April 2015)

“Top Six Presidents on Film” PopTen (March 13, 2012)

20 things about U.S. presidents” (taken from The Presidential Book of Lists) Deseret News (January 20, 2009)

Obama’s inauguration is history-shattering? Not so muchNew York Daily News (January 16, 2009)

“A chance to make history” The Philadelphia Inquirer (November 3, 2008)

Common Man: A Presidential QuizLos Angeles Times (October 19, 2008)

“Average President” Chicago Tribune (October 12, 2008)

“Presidential Puzzlers” Los Angeles Times (July 4, 2008)

“Hot Spots” Games magazine (November 2002)

“Alliterative Pairs” Games magazine (October 2002)

“Capital Capitals” Games magazine (September 2002)

“Return to the Moon III: Lunar Settlement: The Planning Begins” Artemis Magazine (Spring 2002)

“New Year’s Dating Game” Games magazine (March 2002)

“Rewriting the Presidential Trivia Books” Games magazine (December 2001)

“The Second Annual Lunar Development Conference: Return to the Moon II” Artemis Magazine (Spring 2001)

“Introducing Casino Luna” Artemis Magazine (Autumn 2000)

“Presidential Vowels” Games magazine (August 2000)

“Like Sands Through the Hourglass” Games magazine (April 2000)

“But Seriesly, Folks…” Games magazine (April 2000)

“Selling Our Way to the Moon: The Artemis Project” Artemis Magazine (Spring 2000)

“Number Play: When in Rome” Games Magazine (April 1999)

“V.P.—Who He?” Games magazine (February 1999)

“Your Ticket to the Moon: The Artemis Project” Mercury: The Journal of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (July/August 1998)

“Executive Decisions” (trivia puzzle) Games magazine (February 1998)

“The Artemis Project” Absolute Magnitude (Spring 1997)

“The Coming of the Money Card: Boon or Bane?” Analog Science Fiction and Fact (October 1996)

  • winner of the 1996 Analytical Laboratory Best Fact Article award

“Isaac Asimov: A Memorial” Mensa Bulletin (June 1992)

  • reprinted in The Daily Free Press
  • reprinted in Mphasis, the newsletter of Greater New York Mensa (June 1992)
  • reprinted in Boston University New York News (Fall/Winter 1992-’93)

“Flip Side” Games magazine (May 1988)

“Numerologic” Games magazine (December 1986)

“Number Logic” Games magazine (March 1985)