Category: Science Fiction
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Units and Measurement in the Empire of Humanity – Time
BasicImperial 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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Faster Than Light Drives and Communication in the Empire of Humanity
Drives: Faster than light travel has turned out to be one of those things there are many solutions to. Far and away the most common are Vector Drive and it’s newer child, Interstitial Vector. These are essentially instantaneous over even inter-galactic distances (or between instances of creation as well in the case of Interstitial Vector).…
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Character Interview: Joseph Bernard in Moving The Pieces
I’m Joe. Husband of Asina, father of three adult children we don’t get to see as much as we’d like 2.Tell us where and when were you born I was born in Virginia Beach while my father was stationed there, but don’t remember it at all. About two ififths fortyfive, two square zeroseven. Roughly five…
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My Published Works and the Series Order
Set in The Empire of Humanity Rediscovery Series (complete)The Man From EmpireA Guardian From EarthEmpire and EarthWorking The Trenches Preparations For War (complete)Preparing The GroundBuilding The PeopleSetting The BoardMoving The Pieces Politics of Empire (complete)The Invention of MotherhoodThe Price of PowerEnd of ChildhoodMeasure of Adulthood Set in the Connected Realms: (multiple worlds fantasy)The Fountains of…
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Character Sketch from a False Start I Made
“We have an Empire-wide alert. The fractal demons have begun massive assaults on Imperial systems throughout the Empire. The Empire is now in a state of war. There are no protected areas in this war, and Earth is one of the most exposed planets. The demons have a major marshalling point only seventeen years distant.…
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Preparing the Ground – Now an IHIBRP 5 star Recommended Read
Amazon review It started innocently enough. Joe was the engineer on one of Earth’s first explorations beyond the Solar System, using borrowed Imperial technology. Captured on a hostile planet, he has to make a plan for his crew to escape – and then he discovers his real mistake! He becomes a Missionary of Civilization on…
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Character Interview: Graciela Juarez di Scimtar (The End of Childhood)
Call me Grace. I am a Guardian – only Second Order, though moderately strong for Second Order, and trained by Scimtar himself, as I married one of his grandsons. Professionally, I’m currently an Investigator under contract to Secundus Yeriala in Sumabad on Indra. I investigate crimes and torts, and provide factual information to the Imperial…
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Character Interview: The Scimtar/Juarez Children in End of Childhood
EDIT: To make it clear, these are supporting characters, mostly for color/background. The main viewpoint character is their mother. ESTEBAN: From oldest to youngest, I’m Esteban and I’m sixteen Imperial years of age. My younger sister Ilora is fourteen, brother Ilras is thirteen, sister Imtara is twelve, and Alden is eleven. We are the result…
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Review: Jewel of the Stars by Adam David Collings
Amazon purchase link As an interstellar cruise liner gets underway, Earth’s combined fleets come under assault from an unknown enemy. As Earth falls, they may be the only free humans left in the universe. It’s novella length, not novel, and obviously intended to be serialized but does have a story arc with a decent resolution…
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Review: Under A Fallen Sun by John Coon
Alien Invasion story. Basically enjoyable, but the author uses way too much deus ex machina and the more you think about it, the worse it gets. Girl’s brother and his wife disappear on a drive west to take a new job in Albuquerque, so a month or so later she convinces her friends to take…