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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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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Note: I originally posted this in October 2014, when my novella Love and Death in the City of Bone had a different title. Happy Halloween, everyone. If you’re looking for a good book to curl up with by the fire on a chilly evening, Love and Death in the City of Bone has been out
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Long article about Elon Musk at Aeon. Musk, along with Peter Thiel, is one of the few modern capitalists who resembles the Heinlein hero D.D.Harriman (or one of Ayn Rand’s late-career male lead characters): an innovator who wants to remake the world of possibilities, expand the pie for everyone, and grab a big slice of
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I’m pleased to let you know that I have a new science fiction short novel coming out on September 25, 2014. It’s got intrigue, a love story, and an homage to Lawrence Durrell’s tetralogy The Alexandria Quartet, all wrapped up in my distinctive flavor of sf speculation. You can preorder the ebook now or buy
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Operation Iago (The Confederated Worlds, Book 2) has been out four weeks now. If you haven’t picked it up yet, its focus is an exciting story about a likable character struggling to grow as both a leader and a man. But one of the joys of reading science fiction is the chance to explore strange
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Quick note: this blog post may look familiar to my mailing list subscribers. It was one of those exclusive, pre-release bonuses my mailing list subscribers received almost three weeks ago, and almost a week before Operation Iago became available. You can get similar bonus content about my next books by subscribing now. Scroll down on
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Since my last post on religion and space settlement, a number of people have asked me which of my books touch on those subjects. Time to gather those responses in one place. Desmond Park, the protagonist of New California, invents a religious-like movement, the “TranscenDNA Society,” which promises liberation from some of the urges built
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Now that we know religious sentiments will be the only rationale for space settlement, how can we expect space settling to unfold and what will space settlements look like? Here are some initial thoughts. 1. Space settlements will be founded by colossally wealthy individuals As we discussed previously, the costs of space settlement will be
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In the first two installments of this series, we discovered: Using foreseeable technology, it would be too expensive to go to space, stay there, find or make valuable things, and send those things to Earth. Any technology that would lower those expenses would lower the cost of finding or making those same things on Earth,
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