Author Archives: Deanne E. Gwinn

Interesting.  Just saw that two used copies of my book Vaporous Night from the Translight Trilogy are for sale on Amazon at $111.80 and $118.00, one from Germany and the other from the UK.  Each of those prices is over twice … Continue reading →

Nuclear power plants are fueled by uranium. That uranium has to come from somewhere. Fourteen years ago I clipped an Associated Press article from the Monterey County Herald. With haunting effect, journalist Deborah Hastings sketches the legacy that uranium mining … Continue reading →

Another bit of info pulled from the crate: A 1995 report by the Union of Concerned Scientists explains the legal channels for public participation in oversight of nuke power plants.   “The Public As Enemy: NRC Assaults on Public Participation … Continue reading →

As we pause to remember all the Americans lost on 9/11, and those who sacrificed themselves for others, let’s also remember this:  Iraq and Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the attack.  It was Bin Laden’s crew working out … Continue reading →

This is from “Nucleus: A Quarterly Report From the Union of Concerned Scientists”  Volume 6 . Number 4 . Winter 1985 . “The Three Mile Island accident, which gave the regulators an unusual opportunity to reflect and reform, has only … Continue reading →

One document I pulled out of the crate mentioned in my previous post is a set of pages from “Nuclear Waste Management and the Use of the Sea: A Special Report to the President and Congress,” prepared by the United … Continue reading →

My son is reorganizing his garage, turning it into usable work space. He’s doing a beautiful job, designing and building shelving units and cabinets. To make room for reorganization, he needed to move some stuff to a storage shed, but … Continue reading →

This is confusing.  My understanding of print-on-demand publishing was that a reader orders and pays for a book before it is printed and shipped. That cuts down on the huge waste of trees turned into paper to print copies of … Continue reading →

All my self-published books have been out of print (not for sale) for several months (a year or more? I’ve lost track.)  My choice.  The plan is to find representation for a more recent work, then maybe I can afford … Continue reading →

Sometime in 1992 KTEH transmission changed.  We were no longer able to get channel 54, and didn’t want to take on the monthly payments of cable. No more science fiction nights, no more PBS, no more Sesame Street for my youngest.  … Continue reading →