Jack of Harts

My Jack of Harts universe has room for a little bit of everything.

I try to keep the science grounded, but without being the kind of hard science fiction that bores people. I love those hard sci-fi stories, but I know most people don’t. But I will say that everything that happens in the Jack of Harts universe has a science reason for existing. Even catgirls and all those other things that Jack fights. Genetic engineering is a real thing in the universe, and it can make all kinds of crazy creatures. As for the tech itself, I try to show the Earth factions still using tech that we find relatable. Fusion engines. Lasers. Missiles. Gravitic cannons and gravitic generators are really the One Big Tech they get from aliens, which makes them faster and more dangerous, but most Earthborn designs are still something that looks like a futuristic version of what we have now. That is on purpose. It is designed to keep most of the stories I write grounded in the kind of reality that the reader can understand, even as I throw new and interesting things at them.

That is probably the most unrealistic thing about my writing actually. The idea that we will recognize our future world. One way or the other, I highly doubt that we actually will. Just as the world we live in now is utterly alien to the world of a hundred years ago, I expect the real time of Jack will be just as alien to us. But when I write stories, I am writing them for people now, and so I make the decision to write stories that make sense to our eyes. Even as I show all kinds of crazy things in them. The normalcy is what makes the crazy stand out after all.