As a small gift to anyone who might stop by on this housebound Christmas season, I have just posted a Sherlock Holmes story with a touch of science fiction to it. Enjoy. The Disappearance of James Phillimore is here.
Leave a CommentWhen one looks at a culture with the eyes of an outsider, one often sees things the members of that culture take so thoroughly for granted that they consider them breathing level obvious, and think about them about as much. IMHO, that is certainly true of the art of intelligence…
Leave a CommentThis is a discussion of a concept central to a future book in the Portal series. Overall, the size, capability and design of an interstellar probe are driven by its mission parameters, which in turn are dictated by the intent of its builders. Overall there is a spectrum between non-threatening…
Leave a CommentNovember means a lot of things to a lot of people. Movember, another month in COVID lockdown, or just another month. To me and a lot of other people, it means NaNoWriMo. This year, as in other years, I’m trying something new and different. To me, anyway. Urban fantasy with…
Leave a CommentOne plotline to be found in “Expedition” is using Martian resources to build nuclear reactors to power a Mars base and, in fact, a Mars Colony. It is possible to survive on Mars, but all the things you need to do on Mars require power. A lot of power. Wind…
Leave a CommentHe asked his tall uncle, the Giraffe, what made his skin spotty, and his tall uncle, the Giraffe, spanked him with his hard, hard hoof. … And still he was full of ‘satiable curiosity!The Elephant’s Child, Rudyard Kipling There have been many discussions of how we might achieve a rocketpunk…
Leave a CommentSo, where is this guy coming from, anyway? Well, the past, mostly, and farther in the past than most people. As far as experiences go, a lot farther into the past. When I was six, in 1962, my parents packed up their family, four boys at that time, and moved…
Leave a CommentIt’s the only way out. Princess grabbed the Imperial blaster from Luke, flipped it to overload maximum, and pulled the trigger. The energy of the power pack was released in one huge blast. A cloud of vaporized iron and people roared down the cell bay, setting fires throughout the area…
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