Almost seven years ago, just before the Super Bowl in February 2019, I posted The Dallas Cowboys – Your 2025 USFL Champions. That post was based on cliodynamics, theories of historical processes. Asimov fans will recall the science of psychohistory as depicted in the Foundation series. While Asimov’s take was simplistic, we’re getting there – look at […]
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I hope the past few months have been good for you. The time has been busy on my end with house shopping and moving. While it’s good in the long run, there’s been some short term annoyance. Years of stuff to triage: pack, trash, sell, or send to Goodwill? Years of dust has been making
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My latest publication, “The Girl from Ipanema in the Year Zero: An Alternate History Short Story,” is available as of today (December 30, 2024). Jazz is perhaps my third or fourth favorite musical genre. I’m also a history buff. Those would seem to have nothing in common… …until I realized the song “The Girl from
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For all the festivities and good cheer of the Christmas season, this time of year can get stressful. To do lists are packed with shopping, gift wrapping, Christmas cards, party prep, menu planning. It’s okay to feel frustrated and annoyed. It’s okay to feel guilty about feeling frustrated and annoyed (“It’s the holidays, why aren’t
You might’ve lost this news item in the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, but NASA recently announced the postponement of the Artemis III crewed mission to the moon. The new target date for the landing is “mid-2027 at the earliest.” As a science fiction writer, I have a mix of thoughts Part of
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(tl;dr: I have three novels in a Science Fiction Series Sale through December 16, 2024) I hope Thanksgiving went well for my US readers, with good food and time with family and friends. It certainly was good for me on those scores. My weekend also included a round of golf. Not very traditional, but more
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Some of science fiction’s most memorable works have been short stories. Isaac Asimov‘s “Nightfall” and Arthur C. Clarke‘s “The Star” have been read and remembered for decades. At longer lengths, Flowers for Algernon and Fahrenheit 451 are still read in American high schools decades after their initial publication. Both novels were expanded from the original
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Some quick thoughts about Veterans Day, or Remembrance Day for my British Commonwealth readers. Everyone of us is descended from a man who took up to defend his family, his property, his community, and his society against some armed threat. Without him, you wouldn’t be here. Live, dead, known to you or lost to history
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While the Incepti Cataclysm is my newest trilogy, all my older books are still on sale. Among them are Take the Shilling and Operation Iago, the first two volumes of the Confederated Worlds military science fiction trilogy. Those two books of mine are now featured along with fifty(!) titles by other authors in the Greatest
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The Fermi Paradox is a recurring topic here, and for good reason. It addresses one of the most interesting questions in science fiction: are we alone in the galaxy? What other minds are out there? And today it asks another important question: was the Great Filter beer? Hanay, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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