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Can science fiction show average Americans a way to take back their government? Is there a high-tech equivalent to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or All the President’s Men? I’ll explore the concept in this series of blog posts. Follow the links to part one and part two. The Twenty-Eighth Amendment So far in this
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Can science fiction show average Americans a way to take back their government? Is there a high-tech equivalent to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or All the President’s Men? I’ll explore the concept in this series of blog posts. You can find part one and part three at the links. “My tearless retina takes pictures
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Can science fiction show average Americans a way to take back their government? Is there a high-tech equivalent to Mr. Smith Goes to Washington or All the President’s Men? I’ll explore the concept in this series of blog posts. Follow the links to part two and part three. A summer of interesting times Even if
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In honor of the 2024 Olympics in Paris, I’m offering a deal on the ebook edition of my science fiction sports short story collection Galactic Olympics. Use coupon code GOFORGOLD to save $1.00 off the already low price of $2.99. That’s five science fiction stories for two bucks. But only if you buy directly from
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A new interplanetary science fiction short story is available today. Sputniki Yupitera (Russian for “the moons of Jupiter”) is available in ebook everywhere, print single at Amazon (or use ISBN 9798877315204), and digitally-narrated audio (at play.google.com). There’s an anecdote attributed to American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury that came to mind as I wrote this
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No matter how good your day is, getting contributor copies from Analog magazine only make it better. My story “Paytron of the Arts” is in the January/February 2024 issue, on newsstands now. You should be able to find it at the Barnes & Noble on Glenstone in Springfield, MO; the one on Veterans Parkway in
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After a long and winding discussion of the Fermi Paradox, we concluded there are 0.5 high tech civilizations in the galaxy today. (For the sake of human ego, we’ll round that up to 1). In other words, we’re alone in the galaxy. Oh, there are plenty of life-bearing planets out there. There might be millions
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In a blog post from a few years back, speculating about the Fermi Paradox, I discussed why the percentage of intelligent life-forms that develop high-tech civilization you can see across interstellar distances might be very low. (There’s a whole series of posts on this topic, starting here). That old blog post series came back to
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Questions of meaning and purpose, for societies and individuals, abound in my latest published story. Iphigenia of Khufu is available now in ebook (only 99c) and print single ($7.99, ISBN 979-8856743158). The colonists of the asteroid Khufu, and colonists with similar cultures on two other asteroids, have figured out a solution for the damage the
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