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# Glen Engel-Cox

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## Posts

- [Blog](https://engel-cox.com/?page_id=9)
- [The Year of Reading Pratchett](https://engel-cox.com/the-year-of-reading-pratchett/) - In my 50th year, I started a project to read all of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, in order of publication. I’m not entirely sure why. Most men in the throes of mid-life focus on fast, fancy cars or svelte young women. But my life has always been about reading and writing, so when it comes
- [The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald](https://engel-cox.com/the-gate-of-angels-penelope-fitzgerald/) - The Gate of Angels, Penelope Fitzgerald, Carrol & Graf, 1993 (c1990), ISBN 9780881849608, 352pp. I can’t remember where I first heard of Fitzgerald, although I suspect it was from one of the well-read subscribers to Rondua, the Jonathan Carroll mailing list. She is not a magic realist or fantasy author (as far as I can
- [You Be UBI You](https://engel-cox.com/you-be-ubi-you/) - [What follows is an annotated story. Click the highlighted link to find out more about where each line originated from. For example, You Be UBI You.] This is the story of a girl who wasn't a girl, the lonely boy in the bubble, and the night we met. Al1s0ng was born digital, emerging fully formed, Athena-like, from
- [My Brilliant Friend, Elena Ferrante](https://engel-cox.com/my-brilliant-friend-elena-ferrante/) - I found this book in a Free Little Library (with apologies to all my librarian friends who just screamed, “all libraries are free!”) and pulled it out because I was aware of Elena Ferrante’s cause celebre in the literature world. Basically, “Elena Ferrante” is a penname for an author who does not wish to be
- [The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba](https://engel-cox.com/kamkwamba-the-boy-who-harnessed-the-wind/) - For the five years before COVID struck, I had my best job ever. In some ways, I lucked into it, although looking back over my life, I can see how I prepared for it for over decades. I’m going to get to the book in question, but the story of this job helps to
- [Financial Planning for the Science Fiction and Fantasy Fan](https://engel-cox.com/financial-planning-for-the-science-fiction-and-fantasy-fan/) - Surprise! Your Aunt Agatha bought the farm and you inherited it. Or you just won the lottery—although I’m sure that you, with your scientific knowledge of probability, never actually buy a lottery ticket; perhaps it was a Christmas gift from your mom? In any eventuality, suddenly you have a lot more money than you know
- [The Great Imposter](https://engel-cox.com/the-great-imposter/) - Second year medical students have a particular problem known as intern’s syndrome, wherein they start to have symptoms of every new disease and malady they study. While there’s no fancy terminology for this issue for writers (unless it be imposter’s syndrome)—who see themselves or their work in the biographies of other writers—the struggle to not
- [One of the Band](https://engel-cox.com/one-of-the-band/) - “Odd’s here?” I could hear the question from where I stood, playing simple background chords to Bob Seger’s “Her Strut.” It was exactly the sort of question I wanted to hear. Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes-Know-It-All Todd was at a keg party playing in the band. Maybe he’s not as much of a prick as we thought he
- [The Power of Investing in Yourself](https://engel-cox.com/the-power-of-investing-in-yourself/) - I received a government-backed student loan for my first year of college: $2,500 in 1984 to cover the cost of tuition, fees, and books at the University of Texas at Austin. However, since my parents were already covering those costs, I instead used that loan to purchase a brand new Macintosh computer. This was one
- [No Safe Harbor](https://engel-cox.com/no-safe-harbor/) - When we arrived at the city park there were already more than 200 people there lounging on blankets, sitting in lawn chairs, milling about. In the middle of the park was a small pond, and the 4th of July organizers had partitioned off the dock, setting up the fireworks launchers at the end of it
- [Visual BASIC: The Proposal](https://engel-cox.com/visual-basic-the-proposal/) - NOTES I wrote this poem back in 1999. It likely requires a nerd to understand it, but there’s more and more of us out there every year.
- [It Had to Happen](https://engel-cox.com/73-2/) - I always knew I was going to have a heart attack. Following the diagnosis in 2004 of a stable angina condition, of which I was reminded every time I strenuously exerted myself, the possibility of one of those throat-tightening, chest-pressure instances lasting more than the usual 15-to-30 seconds was always a possibility. I knew a
- [Don't Quit Your Day Job](https://engel-cox.com/dont-quit-your-day-job/) - They tell you, in writing how-to books and workshops, don’t quit the day job. In today’s economy, however, quitting the day job isn’t so hard as finding a day job in the first place. I moved from Los Angeles to Fort Collins, Colorado in August, 1991. My significant other was going for her master’s degree,

## Pages

- [Home](https://engel-cox.com/) - About Glen Glen's stories focus on the intersections of things: religion and science, art and commerce, fables and reality. Glen grew up in Texas and has since lived and worked in California, Malaysia, Ohio, Saudi Arabia, and Washington (both state and District of Columbia), as well as traveling to 100+ other countries. Glen's work has
- [Bibliography](https://engel-cox.com/works/) - These are my published works in reverse chronological order. Links take you to where you can read it or buy it, depending on availability. Fiction 2026 "Living in the Past," Utopia Science Fiction, June 2026. "Laws of God and Man," Pharmacopeia Obscura, ed. Jessica Augustsson, JayHenge Publishing KB, 4 May 2026, ASIN B0GXGVZMYS. "20
- [Favorites](https://engel-cox.com/favorites/) - I read a lot and have kept somewhat meticulous notes about that reading since the early 1990s. This page is where I collect the books and stories that I'm the most fond of, listed by year of publication. 1954 "Fondly Fahrenheit," Alfred Bester (from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Aug 1954) 1962 Pale
- [Subscribe for Monthly Updates](https://engel-cox.com/subscribe/) - Daily and Monthly UpDATES On my Patreon I run a couple of newsletters. The daily one is called the Book of Days and has information about literature events on that date like authors born, books published, prizes won, etc. The other is more intermittent, but at least monthly, and contains draft essays for my second
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- [Books](https://engel-cox.com/books/) - Darwin's Daughter: A Novel It sounded like the perfect trip: biologist needed for an all-expenses paid trip to the Galapagos Islands. With only a few months left before she defends her PhD dissertation on whiptail lizards at the University of Texas, Joan Carter really needs an escape. The carefully constructed life she had made

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