Since I’ve just put “Breathing is Overrated” (my third Writers of the Future Honorable Mention) out online for its October 26th release date, we’ll go with that for Fractured Fragment Friday (and it’s a nice fit for Halloween, too.) Here’s the blurb: Left to die in the abyss of space, Jansen finds something to live … Continue reading
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Fractured Fragment Friday: “Imperial Purrogative”
For Fractured Fragment Friday, since I’m currently working on my sixth AND seventh Herc Tom, Champion of the Empire stories, we’ll move onto the fifth Herc Tom tale – “Imperial Purrogative”: Champion of the Empire Hercules Tom is on the outs with Emperor Maxamillian and, Imperial Purrogative being what it is, has to deal with … Continue reading
Meandering Monday about My Return to Mars
So, everyone reading this (as many as 100+ of you) knows that I want to go to Mars. I’ve been dreaming about it since the 70’s. Back then, having watched Neil Armstrong and his fellows walking on the moon on live (slightly delayed) television, it seemed obvious that I could make it there. Surely we’d … Continue reading
Forecast Friday: Spreading Life
Like we all know, pieces of SCIENCE FICTION somehow make their way into reality, and – in our rapidly changing world – at a faster and faster pace. The teaser in my emailed newsletter (The Download) from MIT Technology Review said something about beaming life through space . Naturally, this brought images to my mind of the … Continue reading
Forecast Friday: Inspiring Hope
This week, while Meandering Monday about the Fickleness of Fantasies , I once again raised the specter of me going to Mars. I have become inspired by a lengthy blog post that someone shared with me (because among the many odd topics I yammer on about while he’s trying to work, Mars is often in … Continue reading
Forecast Friday: Are We There Yet?
When I was growing up, our country went to the moon (actually, we took the rest of the world with us.) I was twelve years old when I watched Neil Armstrong first take that “one small step for (a) man”, and the last mission finished up just before my sixteenth birthday. I had no reason … Continue reading
Forecast Friday: We Need to be Led to MARS
**There are references in this posting to the MARS mini-series. I am going to do my best to avoid spoilers (the fact is, I haven’t finished the last episode myself), but one man’s spoiler is another’s old news. Over the holidays I recorded the NatGeo series MARS; this is a dramatized hypothetical mission to put … Continue reading
