Essays and Articles.

• Beaumont’s "The Knight of the Burning Pestle:" a dramatic analysis. A report on and review of a 1986 production.
• A Brief History of Word Processing (Through 1986). A paper on its development and then-current state. In light of the substantial changes in the field in the years since, the reader is cautioned that all present-tense statements refer to 1986 only.
• The California Academy of Sciences: a speech. A lecture on the Academy as it was in 1986.
• Researching the American Indian. A 1987 article about the Charles de Young Elkus Papers cataloging project.
• Gilbert and Sullivan’s "The Gondoliers:" a plot summary. A full description from a letter of about 1990.
• In Search of the Century’s Best Books. A 1999 article about the web project The Best English-Language Fiction of the Twentieth Century.
• Whence The Thinker? A 2000 article about Stanford University’s peripatetic Rodin bronze.
• Interview with Brian Kunde. A 2013 interview conducted by a Smashwords program.
• Wikipedia and Me. A 2014 article on my career as a Wikipedian.
• Conan—the Final Battle: an Unwritten Classic. A 2016 article speculating on the fate of Conan the Barbarian.

• L. Sprague de Camp’s Time and Chance. A 2009 review of a literary autobiography.
• Esther Erman’s Rebecca of Salerno. A 2022 review of a highly original historical novel.
• H. L. Gold and L. Sprague de Camp’s None But Lucifer. A 2019 review of a demonic fantasy novel.
• Ron Goulart’s The Panchronicon Plot. A 2019 review of a pulp science fiction novel.
• Kij Johnson’s The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe. A 2019 review of a Lovecraftian pastiche
• Walter Moers’s The City of Dreaming Books. A 2018 review of a dinosaurian literary adventure.
• Walter Moers’s A Wild Ride Through the Night. A 2019 review of a dream adventure fantasy.
• Richard Parks’s The Face of an Angel. A 2018 review of a YA adventure set in a most peculiar boarding school.
• Richard Parks’s The Ghost War. A 2020 review of stand-alone fantasy novel.
• Richard Parks’s Our Lady of 47 Ursae Majoris and Other Stories. A 2018 review of a fantasist’s science fiction.
• Richard Parks’s Power’s Shadow. A 2018 review of the third novel in a series.
• Richard Parks’s The Voice of a Demon. A 2018 review of the YA sequel to The Voice of an Angel.
• Richard Parks’s Yamada Monogatari: Troubled Spirits. A 2022 review of a fantasy mystery collection.
• Gary Romeo, Fictioneer. A 2015 review article on the pastiche fiction of Robert E. Howard scholar Gary Romeo, with a bibliography of his e-zine Sand Roughs.
• Finn Ronne’s Antarctic Conquest. A 2019 review of a narrative of polar exploration.
• Darrell Schweitzer’s Deadly Things. A 2014 review of an atypical mystery collection.
• Darrell Schweitzer’s The Dragon House. A 2018 review of a YA fantasy adventure novel.
• Darrell Schweitzer’s Echoes of the Goddess. A 2016 review of a far future fantasy.
• Darrell Schweitzer’s Ghosts of Past and Future: Selected Poetry. A 2023 review of a poetry collection.
• Jill Paton Walsh’s The Late Scholar. A 2014 review of a Dorothy L. Sayers pastiche mystery.