When we buy something, it is ours, and taking it from us is theft. That is an accepted part of society and law. Anything physical at least. But what happens when we buy something digital? Can we own it? Is[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for December, 2017
The South American colonists of San Lucas had a difficult road pacifying the single small continent they’d made their home. New Brazil was rich and beautiful, but it was also home to one of the most dangerous alpha predators we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s hard to wear white all the time. It gets dirty so easy. And no matter how careful you are, it will always show that you’ve been in a fight. Blood. Tears. Dirt. Scuffing. Everything shows when you wear white.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The single most and least successful species on San Lucas was based on Earth’s extinct sabertooth cats. The Albion engineered them up to the size of a draft horse, with the muscle and bone mass to support it, and a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first continent humanity colonized on San Lucas was not much larger than Earth’s Australia. New Brazil had the largest population of sabertooth-descended alpha predator cats of any of the major continents, but it also had the largest deposits of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’m not a big fan of fighting. Yeah, I know, I’ve spent a lot of my life doing it. And I must say I do enjoy doing it while I’m doing it. There’s a real rush to coming out the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the important things to consider about the cats of San Lucas, is that they originally came from Earth. The genetics is quite clear on that. The Albion took them off Earth many thousands of years ago and began[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is a fun little cover I asked Stephen Huda to create for my next short story. It’s an early draft of the cover art, and the final one will be subtly different, but I rather love it and wanted[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We found the Lucas Cats on two of San Lucas’ major continents. The first was a tall and relatively narrow continent reaching from the warm equator up to the cold polar regions. It has a wide range of landscapes, starting[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Torson is one of the more common Aesiran names out there. So is Erik. That makes Erik Torson the equivalent of John Smith or Jose Ramirez back home in America. It would be a mistake to think that the Erik[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…