When your world needs maintenance and you don’t have the handbook, that’s a problem. River Spinward Five, Realm of the Stanath “The problem is dire.” A flick of the Premier Scholar of Builders’ crest conveyed that Premier Artificer could refrain from stating the obvious. No Flock Chief would fold his…
Leave a CommentRight now, in my house, I have two disruptive technologies. This doesn’t scare me at all, despite all the hype. Only one of them actually gets the hype, actually. AI is the one that gets the hype, with headlines shouting, “AI Will Destroy Humanity!” I have Stable Diffusion installed on…
Leave a CommentNot all worlds are planets … Chapter 2 Lord of the Ring The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can…Niccolo Machiavelli Crag of Justice, Ring of the People The Crag of Justice jutted out from the sidewall of the…
Leave a CommentLife is a powerful force, to create or destroy … Chapter 1 Ties That Bind Family is strength, and weakness. Persian proverb. Vancouver Spaceport, Launch Complex #4 Sheina Marshall put away her phone at the boarding call for the Galaxy booster to Bazaar Station, with the pang she always felt…
Leave a CommentIt’s a writer’s job to be tough on his characters, and I’m certainly no exception. In the Master Blasters series, the heroes have to work under tough non-negotiable deadlines, invent new methods and procedures as they go along, and master new tools under time pressure. Serious time pressure. Well, I’ve…
Leave a CommentAfter the months of snippeting, editing and formatting, the fourth novel in the Portal Authority Contract series will go up for pre-order on the first of December, 2022, with a release date of 15 December 2022, in time for Christmas shopping. And, for those who want more, the next book…
Leave a CommentWhen you do look up at the horizon, you may not like what you see … Tsunami, Drill Site #2, Contract Day 48 The wind howled past the Can like a lost soul, and the rhythmic surge of the surf jolted the Can as the waves swept around it, with…
Leave a CommentThere has recently been a lot of attention given to AI. For some time now the usual doomsayers have been holding forth on the effects that this new technology will have, predicting the end of the human race and other pleasantries. Stable Diffusion is out in the wild now, open…
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