Publications
Science Fiction Short Stories:
"Day of the Doomrock," Perihelion Science Fiction, 12 April 2017
"Golden Needles," SF Reader, 15 June 2015
"Shuttle 54, Where R U?," Perihelion Science Fiction, 12 May 2015
"Don't Think Twice," Perihelion Science Fiction, 12 April 2014
"The Pirates of Panjandrum," OG's Speculative Fiction, Issue #28, January 2011
Nonfiction:
Although I have maintained a (fairly) complete list of my nonfiction writing, some of the original paper copies have disappeared over the years. I apologize to anyone who would like to read something that is not available as a PDF file.
Brass Tacks, "Entertaining Fiction," Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November/December 2021
Brass Tacks, "Einstein's Mass-Energy Formula," Analog Science Fiction and Fact, July/August 2019
Brass Tacks, "No Goose Stepping Down the Road to Apocalypse," Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May/June 2017
Brass Tacks, "More Ice Cream Sundaes", Analog Science Fiction and Fact, May 2016. A response to my letter was published in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2016
Brass Tacks, "What Else Should We Expect?", Analog Science Fiction and Fact, March 2015
Letters, "Interstellar Communications," Sky and Telescope, April 2012
Letters, "Looking Through Windows," PC Sources, November 1992
"Helpful Hint," SoftSector, Aug. 1987
"Renumber with Order," in Magic, RUN, Jan. 1987
Letter to the Editor, "Reference Markers," Commodore Magazine, Jan. 1987
Letter in S. O. S section, "Input Prompt Bug," Ahoy!, Nov. 1986
"Find-the-Pairs," Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 63, #7: July 1986
Letter to the Editor, "Left Wing Interference," The Transactor, May 1986
Letter to the Editor, "1541 Electrical Interference," Commodore Microcomputers, Mar/Apr. 1986
Letter to the Editor, "Programming Tip," Commodore Microcomputers, Jan/Feb 1986
"Meaning of a Theory," in Letters, Journal of College Science Teaching, Nov 1985
"Structured BASIC?" in Tips Ahoy!, Ahoy!, Nov 1985
Letter to the Editor, Commodore Microcomputers, Jul/Aug 1985
Letter to the Editor, Commodore Microcomputers, Mar/Apr 1985
"Computer help for homesteaders," in Country Conversation, Countryside, April 1985
Letter to the Editor, Byte, Feb 1985
"Simon's BASIC," Power Play, Feb/Mar 1985
"Whippoorwill Hill," in Question of the Month, Countryside, May 1984
"SAVE @ replaced," in Magic, RUN, April 1984
Dear Editor, Syntax, June 1983
"Saving your fingers," Sync, January 1983
"Making backups for machine language tapes," Sync, January 1983
In Excess baler Twine? Try these ideas, Countryside, October 1982
"How not to build a fence," Small Farmer's Journal, Fall Quarter 1982, Vol. 6 #4
"Country conversation - Storebought clothes don't equal homemade," Countryside, March 1982
"Make your own Lebanee," Small Farmer's Journal, Winter Quarter 1981, Vol. 6 #1
Letter to the Editor, The Mother Earth News, January 1979
Letter to the Editor, The Plain Truth, May 1978
Letter to the Editor, Humanizing City Life, April 1978
Letter to the Editor, The Mother Earth News, January 1978
General Chemistry (cover only),text published by El Paso Community College
"How to get a close shave from an old blade," The Mother Earth News, September 1976
Accounting for the Homestead (cover only), booklet published by the Institute for Tomorrow, August 1976
Letter to the Editor, The Mother Earth News, September 1975
"The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum," Good Reading, March 1974
"Z.P.G. What is it all about?", Aware, May 1974
"The Tree That Walks," Grain Producers News, March 1974
"Activation of Glycine by ATP, a divalent cation, and proteinoid microspheres," BioSystems 5, 115 (1973): J. W. Ryan and S. W. Fox
"Flavin-protein interactions in flavoenzymes. Studies of FMN binding in Azotobacter flavodoxin using protein fluorescence lifetime measurements", Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 55, 1165 (1973): L. J. Andrews, M. L. Macknight, J. Ryan, and G. Tollin
"Flavin-protein interactions. Effect of chemical modification of tryptophan residues on flavin mononucleotide binding and protein fluorescence in Azotobacter flavodoxin," Biochemistry 12, 4550 (1973): J. Ryan and G. Tollin
Letter to the Editor, BioScience. May 1973
Letter to the Editor, American Laboratory, May 1973
Letter to the Editor, American Laboratory, February 1973
"Vote 'Yes' for Survival," Tucson Daily Citizen, 08 July 1972
Letter to the Editor, American Laboratory, February 1972
"Stereo photography of gems and minerals," Gems and Minerals, January 1972
"The West is still wild at Old Tucson," Ford Times, December 1972
"The tree that walks," Ford Times, November 1971
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