The AI Council arrived in the Alpha Centauri Trinary star system on a swarm of thousands of tiny probes that had been in transit for two decades. They’d been outside real time communications with Earth for nearly as long as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I’ve always loved waking up on a lake in the early morning. Grass glistens with dew. Fog banks roll across the water. Maybe you get a light rain. Darkness lifts and you can see the world around you. A hush[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chloe woke up in a France of the early Twenty First Century that was a particularly tumultuous place to live. Many people say there were two Frances at the time. Others say there was one France and then the Invaders.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I come off my first solid two weeks of vacation in something like twenty years. I enjoyed a weekend on a Northern Minnesota lake with family. Then one of my best friends came home from England for the first[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the leading edges of the Alpha Centauri New Voyager Program probe swarm fired the energies of a star back at the trailing probes, they drove themselves directly into Cen A. They died, but their combined lasers impacting on fully-deployed[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s this moment when the sun goes down on the lake when day and night meet. The evening chill rushes across the water, chasing the heat of the day away. You get to feel it with every sense if you’re[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Chloe grew up in a world where the Islamic Brotherhoods declared her and her kind as abominations before Allah. She watched them protest against her very right to exist, while others worked their entire lives to give birth to exactly[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
When the first New Voyager Program probe swarm fired all of their collected energy into the face of the second probe swarm, their targets’ solar sails were at maximum extension. They soaked up the energy the forward probes had collected[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I grew up with sunsets on the lake. They looked like this flaming bar of light streaking down across the water, rippling with the waves. The color of sky and clouds reflecting around it, and sometimes you saw the sun[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I was working when the first plane hit that September morning. I got home from work in time to see the replay from a single camera. More cameras were deployed when the second plane hit and I remember watching it[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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