Endless Possibilities - Part One: Bringing Life to Mars
Sedna and Newt on Mars. Sedna wants be a Martian when she's on Mars.Newt, Dema, Frogo and Mister Green will help her.…
Lower than the Angels
Ravens are freely invading the spirit world.Eagles are struggling to understand it.Tengri and Kore take on the challenge of trying to explain it adequately to everyone.…
Dutch the Dreamer
Sequel to The Sum of All Imaginings…
Relatively Recent Squibs
Relatively Recent Squibs…
The Sum of All Imaginings
This book is nearly complete. I've named it The Sum of All Imaginings, and have posted a Prelude and the 10 story chapters.It is another sequel in the saga of the Culver family of shaman women, what comes after Eye of the Beholder. I thought I had told it all with that last book and tried to let it rest. But something wouldn't let me do that.See if you agree that this one gives us closure.…
Eye of the Beholder
This story is done.It is a sequel to "...And We Will Have Snow," a continuation of the Culver family history, a story of shamans dealing with modern reality. Don't you agree we should have someplace to go if the climate catastrophe gets too intense?Flying their drones to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, Sedna and Newt join other explorers following the call of the unknown. As always, the first explorers are often loners, bent on escaping the frustrations of civilized existence. But as ever they are soon followed by settlers, who also yearn for wide open spaces but do not care for the risks of going it alone.How does this work out in a world where going it alone at first means flying off in a drone body? Life is essentially divided into three shift, one for sleeping, one for eating and other essentials, and one for flying a drone powered by a dark matter engine and connected by a link using QAR: quantum augmented reality.Only later will humans trust their own mortal bodies to the new worlds built for them by drones.…
Thoughts on language...
Ruminations about the history of language and imagination, the origin of stories...…
Tesla, Mills, and Dark Matter
I've listed this short article as Non-Fiction, but can we really be sure of that when the topics are Tesla, Mills, and Dark Matter? What I have to say here is surely speculative, which may place it squarely in the Science Fiction genre. I'll leave it to you to decide. After that, if you want to read The Rest of the Story, start here:https://www.wattpad.com/story/99436988-and-we-will-have-snow…
Tanu and other tales
4 Novelettes:Virtual Reality - A young man devotes his life to an interactive game.Prester John - A boy searches deep space for his father.Talent - In an era of cloning, an agent who can operate multiple bodies simultaneously is challenged by a rogue former agent with similar skills. Tanu - An origin story for the 12th Planet mythology of Zecharia Sitchin.…
Songs of an Old Galactic Wanderer
An eclectic ensemble of poems written in moments of exhilaration.…
The Unicorn and Other Poems
Mostly transcribed from a chapbook I made in 1982 and updated in 1991. Original contents were simple rhymes, sonnets, Christmas poems, light verse and others.…
Starpath and Other Tales
Short science fiction and fantasy stories from my collection of old and moldy manuscripts.…
The Cold Cold Sea
A tale of the sea...…
...And We Will Have Snow
Global warming, global cooling, what if all the predictions are right? Or worse, what if all the predictions are wrong? Can humans truly hope to understand the complexities attendant on such changes, never mind explain their relationships and predict their effects? The people at WBI - Walden Biodiversity Institute - think they can. At the very least, they intend to prepare as well as possible for the changes to come, whatever they may be. This is not a story of tragedy and despair. This is a story of possibilities and hope, of dreams and perseverance. If you want to know what the future could bring, should bring, start here. " ...this future sounds amazing. Not for the first time, I wish the world was more like your stories..." Utopian dreams and technological innovations. Not merely airy wishful dreams of what it would be like to be there, but realistically hopeful dreams of how to get there. This story could be a revelation of what our next twenty years will bring.…