Most Americans and Europeans think that we have gone to space, settled it, conquered it, and now own it. They think we have driven off all the alien threats and don’t need to worry about them. What most people don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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When I first joined the military, I had never been off world before. I saw no reason to go anywhere else. I had everything I wanted at my fingertips. Yosemite changed that. The other worlds I traveled to changed me[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Races of Humanity have expanded across much of the galaxy. Everywhere we travel, we find someone there. Humans live on land, under water, in the skies, and some even in space itself. There are in fact very few environments[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My family has rarely had much room for family pets. Everyone in the family has to be productive. Oh, we’ve not grumbled too much when the women had their little foo foo dogs, but in general every member of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When I was young, my family had a dog. A normal one, no uplifting. He was a part of the family, and I grew up with him. I was twenty when he died. I remember the vet having to tell[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The best and most amazing parts of being human are the relationships we make with others. Even the animals most of us look down on can make those relationships. We can make friends with people we never thought we would[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After The War, most of the surviving Cowboys retired. Some of us went home, while others went out. Some of us had no homes to return to, so we found or built new ones. Some of us settled down on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I don’t like people who say one thing and do another. They are hypocrites and I don’t like dealing with them. I will if I have to, and I’ll even leave them alone if they aren’t hurting anybody. But one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We are human. Cybers. We are just as human as any genie. We think, we communicate, we dream. There is one thing we have trouble with though. Very few of us can lie. We are born to be trustworthy partners,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We have reached for the stars and we have claimed them. Everywhere we’ve gone, we’ve brought our virtues, our sins, and our laws. Every colony, every world, is a unique combination of us, and those of us who fly through[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…