“The Saga of Viggo and Xyla: A Romance of Dancers in Outer Space”, my fourth novel, is now published on Amazon! Click here to purchase the paperback version, or click here to purchase the ebook version. This was one of my more fun novels to … Continue readingThe Saga of Viggo and Xyla: New Sci-Fi Romance Novel Released
Why is so much modern science fiction dark and “gritty”, even “dystopian”? We live in dark times, so seeing characters navigate a dark world might speak to our hearts and minds in a way a bright world cannot. Far less excusable in my view is … Continue readingRomantic Realist Science Fiction: A Sublime and Beautiful Future
I haven’t even finished my latest novel yet, though I am writing at a brisk clip, and already my mind turns to my next story. For some reason I find the prospect of setting a story in the far future of my space opera setting … Continue readingTaking my Space Opera into the Far Future
Click here for full resolution. This is my new graphic, and indeed my first artwork I’ve posted that isn’t (wholly) an oil painting, depicting a transit map of the solar system, like what might exist in my science fiction setting that has been host to … Continue readingTravel the Solar System at 1g
As 2020 draws to a close I can be proud of having written and released three novels, all of them romantic science fiction stories. Recently I’ve been taking a break from writing and have instead been collecting my ideas for my next book; it’s still … Continue readingNew Year, New Sci-Fi Romance Novel
“Letters from the Airy Deep”, my third novel, is now published on Amazon! Click here to purchase the paperback version, or click here to purchase the ebook version. It’s also available to read on Kindle Unlimited! Having begun this novel about two months ago, it … Continue readingLetters from the Airy Deep: New Sci-Fi Romance Novel Released
Click here for full resolution. This is my new oil-on-canvas painting depicting a zeppelin exploring an airborne wonderland filled with floating air reefs, birds with wings like manta rays and lifestyles like whales, floating “gasbag” lifeforms, and great insectoid hives the size of skyscrapers with … Continue readingCharting the Airy Deep
Today marks 155 years since the birth of the great composer Jean Sibelius. Coming across this fact got me thinking about his music, and the paths music took and could have taken more broadly. In my science fiction setting, the 20th century was very different, … Continue readingJean Sibelius and the Music of a Sci-Fi World
Much thought has been devoted to the idea of life beyond Earth. While it is often assumed that life both on Earth and on other planets must have arisen independently, their origins separate, the panspermia hypothesis offers an alternative view, that life is not confined … Continue readingPanspermia, the Alpha, and the Omega
Space habitats and colonization are one of the topics I blog the most about, because I find it quite interesting. Why confine your civilization to a planet when there’s a whole universe out there filled with resources that you can turn into custom-made habitats fit … Continue readingOur Future in Space Habitats: More Thoughts