I was born with a rare genetic disease called Fanconi anemia (FA), which kills too many people far too young. The life expectancy when I was growing up in the…

‘Libertarianism, posthumanism and politics, longevity and life extension, together in one life story… document[s]… the individual instinct and societal need to push through the limits of human possibility… Can Istvan’s…

My new book – which looks at Ayn Rand’s influence on technology and science fiction – is not the only piece of Randian fun I’ve been up to lately. The Journal of Popular…

My newest book – a thrilling account of novelist Ayn Rand’s impact in Silicon Valley and beyond – is available as an ebook or in hardback direct from Palgrave Macmillan or through Amazon. You can…

You can now read me on your iPhone (or Kindle, or laptop, or other electronic device)! Five years ago, Two in a Million: A True Story about Illness and Love was launched.…

Emotionally direct, with ‘the ordinariness/all hearts/demand’, these poems are fascinating documents in a remarkable journey of survival, testaments in every line to a brave, unbowed, enduring heart—anchored in the ordinary…