Iapetus Shift update

It is very near! The editing is finished and ready to go, and cover art is in the works! I expect it will be 'on the shelves' sometime next month. I am so excited to finally push the 'publish' button and send it out into the world. It's been almost four years since I finished …

Hyperion

I finished this amazing sci fi story a few weeks back, and am still thinking about parts of it. I thought I had read this before, because I had owned it as a teenager, but after the first few chapters I didn't remember any of it, and I think I may not have finished it because …

Alien worlds in our own backyard

I watched this TED talk the other day and haven't been able to stop thinking about it. It is exciting to think of so much unknown still in our world, even if I myself will likely never do any of the discovering. There are millions of miles of unexplored caves beneath us. Untouched by humanity. …

Circle (2015)

This is a very low budget movie, and very interesting concept. Like Twelve Angry Men or The Man from Earth, this movie takes place in a single few hours in a single room with the same characters. The difference being, in this one, it's life or death for everyone. Fifty or so people wake up in …

The Dark Forest, by Cixin Liu

I just finished this sequel to the Three Body Problem, and once again my mind is blown. This book left me with a picture of the universe I never imagined... a dark forest indeed. The only complaint anyone seems to have about this series is the characters, and though they are more fleshed out in this one, they …