I’ll Autograph Sci-fi Novel June 10 – 14

I’ll autograph copies of my sci-fi novel, The Ship Finder, at the Merced County Fair, Merced, Calif. in the Merced Pavilion Building June 10-14 See: http://www.turlockjournal.com/section/12/article/29472/ — Also see: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IIIBW1M for more info about the book.

Kindle SciFi novel FREE ’til June 2, 2015 on Amazon

My ‪#Scifi‬ novel ‪#‎TheShipFinder‬ is FREE as a Kindle book until June 2, 2015. It’s now #9 in Kindle eBooks>SciFi & Fantasy>SciFi>Colonization (as of May 30). Check out

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IIIBW1M

The young adult version is also FREE until June 2, 2015. See:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00N42RZ9U

Book cover, Sci-Fi novel, The Ship Finder

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aliens, anti-war, extraterrestrials, interplanetary, nanotechnology, science fiction, space ship, spacecraft, war

Today, Feb. 18, 2014, my Sci-Fi novel — The Ship Finder — is being released as an E-book on-line. In a week or two a paperback will be available. This story is anti-war, though there is a lot of conflict portrayed. Here’s what the back cover says:

In April 2061 Dr. William Wilson goes for a jog in a northern California park. There he begins a fascinating months-long journey after he meets a wounded alien, Richard Raven. A “ship finder,” which looks like a silver pocket watch, leads them to Raven’s ship. The world Wilson enters is chock-full of advanced technology and weapons. But then interplanetary war erupts.

Does Dark Matter Suggest Alternate Universes?

Does anyone out there think that alternate universes might exist based on the theory that gravity from an adjacent universe is pulling on scattered places in our universe? This subject came up during a recent January 2014 Bill Moyers Journal in which astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was interviewed.

Here’s a link to that show on Bill Moyers Journal:

http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-neil-degrasse-tyson-on-the-new-cosmos/

 

Science Fiction inspires scientists and engineers

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Arthur C. Clarke, inspiration, inventions, NASA, practical, science fiction

When I worked at NASA I met many scientists and engineers who were inspired as youths by science fiction. Those professionals in partnership with private industry created handheld communicators, portable x-ray devices, and even the Space Shuttle.

Before I joined the agency I remember seeing pictures of the Space Shuttle concept in the newspaper. Those early images reminded me of old Buck Rogers films, with his ship spewing smoke behind it while it flew like an airplane.

The late science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke in 1945 proposed communications satellites.

And stories of mining asteroids may well have encouraged NASA scientists and engineers to plan to use robotics to capture an asteroid, place it into lunar orbit and then study it.

If you read science fiction, you are previewing possible new devices, systems, methods, and events. I wonder what are the most practical new ideas that have appeared in science fiction in the last 12 months?