The Hyades Cluster was far away from Earth when the Chinese first settled it. The businessmen who colonized it were some of the smartest and forward thinking of an entire nation of four billion people. They aggressively recruited the best[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for January, 2016
I grew up before the Weather Walls went up. Earth was one large ecosystem back then with weather flowing from China to America to Europe to Russia and back to China. One big cycle that never really ended. The Pacific[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Twilight’s crew broadcast the footage of the Salafi/Shia fighting throughout the Islamic State of Detroit and that sparked demonstrations even the news media could not ignore. Moderate citizens protested the attacks before the capital and Salafi police “dispersed” them with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The one great religion of China is the almighty yuan, and it is a jealous god. All other gods are relegated to less favored status at best, or driven out at worst. The pursuit of yuan drives China to the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people forget that Venus and Mars were our first big run at weather modification. They weren’t always places you could walk around in without shirtsleeves you know. Same for Luna and all those moons around Saturn and Jupiter. And[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Salafi Muslim guns kept a semblance of peace and security for their friends in the Islamic State of Detroit. Though their “modesty police” had driven the non-Muslims out of Detroit, and now happily roamed the Shia neighborhoods in search of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Named the Wang Chung Five by Western Alliance Consolidated Intelligence before they learned the Chinese name, the Steel Hammer is one of the older tanks in use by the Chinese Liberation Army. It carries armor plates heavier than cars, a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Hyades was a long, hard campaign. A decade of fighting on planets and asteroids and space stations against a Chinese Liberation Army that did not know the meaning of the word “surrender.” Literally. I do not think they had[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Minnesota was real cold when I got home. California was real wet. And a host of other changes had come over Earth. The United States Weather Service had taken care of the really bad stuff, stopping every hurricane in the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The situation on the ground inside the Islamic State of Detroit was very different from that reported by the news networks. The government had used the old rules of Imminent Domain to “legally” confiscate the homes or businesses of Christians[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…