There’s a silent battle going on, whose stakes are billions of dollars and the future of spaceflight itself. It’s being fought in the corridors of NASA, the boardrooms of aerospace companies, and the offices of powerful politicians. A paradigm is a set of rules accepted by everyone as ordinary common…
Leave a CommentFor my last novel, “The Clorox Contract”, I needed an alien race. I didn’t want them to look like humans in makeup, but they still need to be understandable to the readers. So, meet the Ard’uinath. I went with an avian species, raptors who are obligate carnivores. I wanted them…
Leave a CommentMerry Christmas to all, and a safe and Happy New Year. May we all have more peace in this coming year than we have had in this one. “The Clorox Contract”, the fifth book in the Portal Authority Contract series, is now up for purchase on Kindle, in ebook and…
Leave a CommentOne of the great things about self-publishing is that there’s no completely final release. In traditional publishing, once the print run is done, that’s it. It’s too late to fix the error you noticed just after the press started running. The long editing process in traditional publishing is designed to…
Leave a CommentO, ye who raise your eyes to the skies and dream of flights beyond the horizon to other worlds, you stand upon the shoulders of giants, and it is of the wisdom of one of those giants, the prophet Nevil Shute, of whom I would tell in such poor plain…
Leave a CommentThis is the last snippet of “The Clorox Contract” before it hits Amazon. Once more the Master Blasters set forth to save a world. PortalNet Liaison, Vancouver, BC Angus looked up from his terminal as Alison Swift’s voice came from two cubicles down. “Boss, you need to see this.” Angus…
Leave a CommentS There are three things that will reliably get people’s attention, and the title says it. All three are to the human brain what interrupts are to a computer chip. They pull the mind’s attention off whatever may be on hand and focus it on the incoming data packet. This…
Leave a CommentThere’s a well-worn saying, “Scientia Potentia Est”. It’s attributed to Sir Francis Bacon, but the actual origin is uncertain. It has a lot of literary significance, because in any story what the characters know and when they know it has a lot to do with pushing the plot forward. Some…
Leave a CommentChanging a world doesn’t always require nukes. Life is a powerful force, and a dreadful weapon … Chapter 3 Life Force Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes. James Lovelock Botany Bay, Hellmouth Base, Snowball Sheina looked very dubiously at the…
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