Click for full resolution. This is my most recent, indeed my very first, digital painting, “Fly me to the moons”, a science-fictional twilight cloudscape set on a planet with two moons in the sky close to each other, a large rocket taking off for orbit … Continue readingFly me to the Moons
“Warp Dawn: The Quest to Spread Wormholes to the Cosmos”, my fifth novel, is now available on Amazon! Click here to purchase the paperback version, or click here to purchase the ebook version. What is “Warp Dawn”? Maybe my blurb says it best: A thousand … Continue readingWarp Dawn: New Sci-Fi Romance Novel Released
Image is one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s sketches for Broadacre City; Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license. What would a genuinely futuristic transportation system look like? From land to air to sea, from human-powered to nuclear-powered, and from everything in between, our options for … Continue readingThoughts on Futuristic Transportation
Click for full resolution. This is my new oil-on-canvas painting, “Emerald Nebula”, showing a cluster of bright white stars amid a green nebula, streamers of shimmering stars and glowing gas lighting up the black sky of space in this region. Very lucky are any colonists … Continue readingEmerald Nebula
Financial independence is often thought of as a pathway where you get a good job with the usual methods, work and save diligently well beyond the median percentage, and have the ability to retire early and safely. Although still unknown in many quarters and somewhat … Continue readingThinking Outside the “FIRE” Box
Click here for full resolution. This is my new oil-on-canvas painting, showing a colorful and I think spectacularly beautiful scene of a spherical spaceship deeply ensconced within a red nebula opening up a wormhole to a brighter region of space dominated by dense star clusters … Continue readingThrough the Looking Glass
With my mind still focusing on worldbuilding for my next novel, “Warp Dawn”, I have fleshed out and expanded some of the races and groups that are out there in my far-future space opera setting, a thousand years after the events of my first four … Continue readingSisterhoods and Hives of my Space Opera
In the course of writing my next novel, provisionally titled “Warp Dawn”, I’ve done some brainstorming for the various alien races the leading man and woman (and their baby daughter!) will encounter during their voyage of cosmic exploration beyond the frontiers mankind has yet reached … Continue readingThe Strange New Worlds of “Warp Dawn”
More than a generation into the age of the Internet, we see everywhere a vast information network ideally suited to the sharing of man’s knowledge, yet almost nowhere do we see it being effectively employed to teach people from start to finish how to do … Continue readingToward a New Vision for Online Education
Does conservatism have a future? It might seem a curious question to ask. After all, a political platform of fiscal restraint coupled with resisting social change, recognizably “conservative” to us, is applicable to so many times and places as to be veritably eternal. Yet many, … Continue readingThe Twilight of Conservatism