My Ten Days From Mars film was supposed to take place back before Contact, when we still had to boost people out of the planetary gravity wells on booster rockets or the space elevators. Back when it took days of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Everybody knows the Africans were once used as slave labor in the cotton fields. Their lobby does not let anyone forget it. But a little known secret is that the Chinese maintained slave trading markets long after the American Civil[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I had this dream of making movies when I was a kid. I actually filmed quite a few back during high school. One of the first good ones I did was this old science fiction noir film about traveling to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So many of us spent so much of our time in the past concerned over who was more human than another. There were real scientists who once said that people from Africa were fallen humans. That they deserved to be[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not sure what it’s like when you read this, but the Personal Assistants I grew up with weren’t real people. They were just AIs. Artificial. Not truly intelligent. They were designed to help us. To make our lives easier.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Forge of War is now available at the Smashwords store, where you can download formats for your Amazon Kindle, Standard Epubs for your Nook or other electronic reader, Sony, PDF, and other formats. I rather enjoy that they generate all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On Sunday, December 7, 1941, a day that will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. Over two thousand American soldiers died that day,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Contact was an answer to the greatest question mankind had ever looked out into the darkness and asked. “Are we alone?” When the answer arrived though, we did not recognize its importance. Centuries of fantasy and science fiction stories had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was assigned a Personal Assistant AI as part of school when I was a kid. She helped me study and learn things and all the other school stuff. We were taught to customize our assistants during Middle School, as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Contact gave us many questions we had avoided for centuries. Millennia. But most of us did not ask them. We were content with our bread and circuses. Our entertainments. Most of us listened to the calming words of politicians and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…