Category Archives: Science Fiction

Shades of Darkling Nights and Other Colorful Metaphors

Posted on November 27, 2012 by

What follows is the first few paragraphs of another of my short stories, published long ago in a small press magazine that no longer exists. Like the magazine that published Timewinder, my first story for which I actually received payment, … Continue reading →

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Time Loops and the Omnipresence of God

Posted on November 3, 2012 by

If you take a course in theology, sooner or later you come to the listing of the divine attributes. God is love, God is just, God is omnipotent, God is omniscient and God is omnipresent, among others. I want to … Continue reading →

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Viewing the Past

Posted on September 27, 2012 by

Whenever we look at anything, we are seeing it in the past thanks to the simple fact that light does not travel from place to place instantaneously. When we see the sun setting, we are seeing it as it appeared … Continue reading →

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Warp Drive

Posted on September 25, 2012 by

I am a science fiction fan. Since I was in third grade, I’ve been reading science fiction books and stories and they continue to dominate my leisure time reading. Certainly I read some other sorts of things, ranging from theology … Continue reading →

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Skyshore

Posted on July 31, 2012 by

The opening paragraphs of another science fiction novel that I’m almost done writing (the first draft, that is): Chapter One Malissa Ann Jennings flapped her hands and shook her head, revealing with the shake twin white cords that dangled from … Continue reading →

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Blackerby’s Wonderful Traveling Machine

Posted on July 30, 2012 by

What the first draft looks like of the opening paragraphs of the science fiction novel I’m currently writing; a novel that I hope to finish within the next couple of weeks: Old J.S. Bach’s eyes had been troubling him for … Continue reading →

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Ray Bradbury

Posted on June 6, 2012 by

The science fiction author Ray Bradbury died this morning at the age of 91: he was born on August 22, 1920. Back in June of 1989, a friend of mine called me all excited. He’d just found a flier about … Continue reading →

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Extraordinary Claims

Posted on May 21, 2012 by

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” So said Carl Sagan. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put these words in the mouth of his character, Sherlock Holmes in The Sign of the Four: “How often have I said to you that when you … Continue reading →

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Snarks

Posted on April 19, 2012 by

The 1997 novel, Einstein’s Bridge, by John Cramer, a working physicist, is an enjoyable science fiction story about the discovery of intelligence in an alternate universe. The scientists learn of the alternate universe and its inhabitants through strange results from … Continue reading →

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Misanthropy

Posted on April 13, 2012 by

Misanthropy is a hatred, dislike or distrust of humanity. It is a disease that infects many. One can see it rear its ugly head in news accounts on a regular basis. Frankly, I don’t like the pessimism inherent in it. … Continue reading →

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