Category: Science Fiction
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Rediscovery: An Overview
Rediscovery was the series first of my books published. I’ve learned a bit more subtlety since then, but nowhere else do you find as much background for the Empire of Humanity. It is told through the viewpoint of Graciela Juarez (‘Grace’), an Earth native from Riverside California in the United States. When we meet her,…
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First Draft Excerpt: A New Embassy
This is a side project, a new story idea that wouldn’t let go until I wrote some of it. Set in the Empire of Humanity, roughly thirty-five Earth years after the events of Empire and Earth. To give you a time-line comparison, Grace is less than halfway through her time in the Planetary Surface Forces…
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Preparations for War Series: The Background
Calmena (Epsilon Indi A II) is a planet filled with humans descended from the Imperial ‘Lost Colony’ of Earth (Sol III). The Fractal Demons discovered Earth in its barbarous Stone Age state, and decided to see if they could domesticate humans. The experiment was not a success. There were a few lines or families that…
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Empire of Humanity: “in-rank” versus “in-fact” and Civil government
Service points drive rank in the civilian government as well as ability to bid on government contracts. They are earned in three ways. Members of the Imperial military on active service earn three service points per year, regardless of rank. Certain members of the civil government also earn service points, albeit at lower rates than…
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Excerpt from Moving The Pieces
It was hard to believe she was gone. For over an Earth century, Sephia had been the commander of Bolthole Base. She’d been the one constant, unchangeable thing about the mission on Calmena. The base was four times the size it had been when I started, Calmena itself was utterly changed, but Sephia was changeless…
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Imperial Numbers and Measurement – Mass and Energy
Imperial measure owes nothing to any Earth system of measurement. The Imperial system was designed in an already scientific and technological era for much the same reasons Earth’s metric units were designed – to simplify a complex system of historical measures. The numeration system is base sixty – 3 times 4 times 5. This makes…
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Excerpt from The End of Childhood
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 noise and interfering with the plaintiff’s…
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An Excerpt from The Man From Empire on Magic versus Technology
This is a scene between Grace and ScOsh, after ScOsh has rescued her from local law enforcement by some means she doesn’t understand yet. But this is the tension between technology and individual abilities (the operant disciplines) I have maintained through all twelve published works in the Empire of Humanity thus far: technology can be…
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Imperial numbers and measurement: Distance/length
Imperial measure owes nothing to any Earth system of measurement. The Imperial system was designed in an already scientific and technological era for much the same reasons Earth’s metric units were designed – to simplify a complex system of historical measures. The numeration system is base sixty – 3 times 4 times 5. This makes…
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Imperial numbers and Measurement – Circular Measurement
Basic: Imperial measure owes nothing to any Earth system of measurement. The Imperial system was designed in an already scientific and technological era for much the same reasons Earth’s metric units were designed – to simplify a complex system of historical measures. The numeration system is base sixty – 3 times 4 times 5. This…