Category: Science Fiction

I’m trying something here: Asking the same questions of the viewpoint character at or near the beginning of each book in a series to demonstrate how they have changed due to events. This series is Preparations For War, and Preparing The Ground is the first in that series Go ahead and introduce yourself. Joseph Bernard.…

(I’m trying something here: Asking the same questions of the viewpoint character at or near the beginning of each book in a series to demonstrate how they have changed due to events. This series is Rediscovery, my first series and this is the fourth and final novel in that series) Go ahead and introduce yourself.…

(I’m trying something here: Asking the same questions of the viewpoint character at or near the beginning of each book in a series to demonstrate how they have changed due to events. This series is Rediscovery, my first series and this is the third novel in that series) Go ahead and introduce yourself. Graciela Juarez…

(I’m trying something here: Asking the same questions of the viewpoint character at or near the beginning of each book in a series to demonstrate how they have changed due to events. This series is Rediscovery, my first series and this is the second novel in that series) Go ahead and introduce yourself. I’m Grace…

(I’m going to try something here: Asking the same questions of the viewpoint character at or near the beginning of each book in a series to demonstrate how they have changed due to events. This series is Rediscovery, my first one and this is the first in that series) Go ahead and introduce yourself. I’m…

The prior step ended with the realization that not only did government have to be minimalist, and consciously so, it had to be composed of people who would be paying a personal price if it – or they – failed. How do you do that? One constant of the people who make country- and civilization-killing…

In the late 1970s, it became fashionable to bash the large scale stellar states that featured so prominently in science fiction. It was “plainly impossible” and exhibit A was always the writer’s preconception of what government did: Social work and industrial boards of this and that and regulations concerning the use of typewriters and television…

(This is a novel in progress set in the Empire of Humanity. Tessa Prentiss is the viewpoint character. She’s originally from Carlisle in northern England, 78 Earth years old with three grown children and a grandson. Her husband lost his adulthood, and she’s become the embassy liaison for a new embassy in Earth’s instance) Corporal…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CW9288ZF Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/m2KD0G “Esteban Scimtar di Juarez, you have passed the threshold of adulthood.  There is no return to childhood in this life.” The ceremony was pure show.  My eldest had wielded most of the trappings of adulthood for years.  The few deficiencies had already been rectified within a second of his…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SKN2Y6Y Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/mKpGlP It never begins dramatically. It started on an ordinary day, when I’d been doing the perfectly ordinary thing of gathering evidence for a hearing.  The case I was investigating had to do with the tort of infringement.  In this case the plaintiff was alleging the defendant was generating excessive…