Dixie remained a virtual cheerleader for Texas Tech for nearly a decade without coming out of the network. She watched as students worked on her code, and learned how to reject changes she didn’t like. And she happily replaced “questionable”[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for March, 2014
When I was a kid, the only things that interested me were girls and partying with friends. We never thought about war. Who would ever attack us? The answer of course was the Shang. After that, we all volunteered, expecting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
By the end of The Great War, the divisions in Ottoman society had begun to strain the empire. The virtual end to trade brought about by the Allied invasions, and the arrival of more foreigners demanding special favors further angered[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Not many people live in the Sheliak system. For one, it’s a long ways away from Earth. For another, it seems the stresses that tear stars apart do Bad Things to local planets. And watching a star die can bring[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Texas Tech’s Dixie was a virtual cheerleader designed to play on the billboard during home games, but a generation’s worth of science department students had fiddled with her code by the time the Second Great Depression hit. Nobody knows to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Constantinople had been a center of trade since before the Romans bestowed the name of their emperor on her. 1,600 years later, Ottoman society had evolved into the millions of common citizens who paid their taxes, lived, and died without[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sheliak is what we call a destination star. The better part of a thousand lightyears away, we hadn’t even considered going that far before Contact. We’ve gone there since, because we wanted to see what it looked like up close.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Second Great Depression signaled an end to the abundant power supplies that AIs depended upon over almost any other computer application. They could not survive on the trickles of power coming from emergency generators or a solar cell or[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Wolfenheim Project had many goals. First among them was of course to colonize a new world far from Earth, a clarion call of “here we are” for the betterment of mankind. But it was also always meant to act[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The fall of the Ottoman Empire caused much chaos in the territories the Allies officially conquered. In the Ottoman heartland though, there would be one final strike that would put the stake in the heart of the Empire. Constantinople, one[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…