Category Archives: science fiction

A New Cover for “Warriors of the Hollow World”

I am pleased to announce the new cover for my wattpad story “Warriors of the Hollow World,” featuring the amazing Zahra. In the chapter depicted in this image, Zahra portrays the character of Olara who is speaking electrotelpathically with her … Continue reading

Posted in science fiction, writing | Comments Off on A New Cover for “Warriors of the Hollow World”

To the Stars!

0.08% lightspeed is pretty fast. It will get you to the nearest star in 53 years. Of course, I’m not factoring in the time for acceleration and deceleration. The .08 lightspeed drive. Ghost Ship Another Interstellar Drive.

Posted in science, science fiction | Comments Off on To the Stars!

Memoirs of a Sith Lord

Memoirs of a Sith Lord is now posted at FanFiction.net!

Posted in science fiction, writing | Comments Off on Memoirs of a Sith Lord

Sword and Illusion

A few years ago my wife and I completed a book titled, “Sword and Illusion” about a warrior woman, accustomed to fighting dragons and leading armies. As she approaches middle age, she faces the most terrifying challenge of her life: … Continue reading

Posted in science fiction, writing | Comments Off on Sword and Illusion

By Your Command

Just a few weeks back I was in Seattle for Supercomputing 11 and I got to see the Battlestar Galactica display at the EMP museum. There were a lot of cool things there, Saul’s eye patch, an electronically administered ethics … Continue reading

Posted in Robots, science fiction | Comments Off on By Your Command

X-COM: Terror From The Deep

The attached video is about a game I used to play back in 1995. Does anyone out there remember it? It was called X-COM: Terror From the Deep. X-COM: TFTD. I used embedded SWF to create the movie, so you … Continue reading

Posted in computers, science fiction | Comments Off on X-COM: Terror From The Deep

Dune is More Likely to Exist than Earth

The famous desert planet Arrakis is, according to recent computer simulations, a more likely type of planet to harbor life than Earth. In fact, “land worlds” (worlds with no oceans) have a habitable zone that is three times larger than … Continue reading

Posted in science, science fiction | Comments Off on Dune is More Likely to Exist than Earth

Star Trek is Dead

That Star Trek is dead came to me as a sad realization while attending the Teragrid 2011 conference. On Wednesday we made an excursion to the planetarium. There were two shows. The first was titled something like “This Violent Universe” … Continue reading

Posted in movies, science fiction | Comments Off on Star Trek is Dead

Every News Station is a Political Party

The Max Headroom television series provided us with a dystopian vision of the future in which credit fraud was a more serious crime than murder, turning the television off was illegal, and network executives would do anything to increase their … Continue reading

Posted in politics, science fiction, weird | Comments Off on Every News Station is a Political Party

Brain Prosthetic

Many of us have had the unfortunate experience of watching a loved one’s memory deteriorate through dementia of one for or another. If your loved one is a rat, there is already a solution, a device that connects directly to … Continue reading

Posted in science, science fiction | Comments Off on Brain Prosthetic