They blink slowly, vanish silently, and stare into corners as if tuning into another frequency. They navigate homes like shadowy spacecraft, communicate through a language of tail flicks and blinks, and often seem to know things they shouldn’t. Yes — we’re talking about cats. But here’s a question both whimsicalContinue Reading
We put exotic animals in a zoo. But what if Earth itself is a huge, planetary zoo?Continue Reading
Callisto, May 7th, 2100 C.E. The voice of BETTY, GaMEWayS’ main computer, jolted Dr. Rachel Simmons awake. Of course, BETTY wasn’t the AI’s official name. But Rachel had long ago reprogrammed its vocal profile to mimic her late mother’s voice. “WAKE UP, RACHEL. IT’S 7:30 A.M., CALLISTO TIME.” She groaned.Continue Reading
Callisto, December 24th, 2099 C.E An unexpected transmission disrupts the usual stillness at the Galilean Moon’s Earth Way Station — or GaMEWayS — on Callisto. It’s an old Christmas tune.“Last Christmas.”Something from the late 20th century.Not unusual in itself.Except it’s coming from Callisto B59 — a decrepit outpost abandoned yearsContinue Reading
The theory of the missing astronauts: men and women allegedly launched into space under secret missions, never listed on rosters, and never seen again.Continue Reading
CHAPTER 1: AWAKENINGS The room was not a room to elevate the soul. Louis the XIV, to pick up a name at random, would not have liked it, would have found it not sunny enough, and insufficiently full of mirrors. (Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, PocketContinue Reading
The Empire Can Wait is my debut novel—a Sci-Fi/Fantasy adventure set centuries into the future, when humanity has expanded throughout the entire Galaxy. Follow a young hero and his remarkable friends—two aliens and a synthetic girl—as they battle to save the Galaxy from a sinister conspiracy.Continue Reading
