Category: science fiction

Is it Kitimat or Star Trek’s Delta-Vega?

“There’s something familiar about this place.” I was on a bus tour of Kitimat’s giant $40 billion LNG Canada facility on Saturday, July 8. I’ve never been on site, but had this strange feeling I had seen it before. The LNG Canada Liguified Natural Gas project, is the largest industrial construction project in Canadian historythe […]

Aranzazu Banks, horror on Hecate Strait, in Canadian Dreadful anthology

            A mariner sailing from  BC’s  Douglas Channel to Haida Gwaii is seduced by mysterious lights on Hecate Stait, not knowing a seductive monster lurks off Aranzazu Banks. My short story Aranzazu Banks appears in the new anthology of Canadian horror and magic realism Canadian Dreadful  edited by David Torcher […]

Short story Dragon Hunter in the Citadels of Darkover anthology

My short story Dragon Hunter is now available in the Darkover Anthology Citadels of Darkover, edited by Deborah J. Ross A young paleontologist arrives on the mysterious planet Darkover with what appears to be an impossible assignment, find out if there were ever “dinosaurs” or the planetary equivalent on the planet. He faces bureaucratic resistance […]

Robert Heinlein’s nightmare vision. The US elects a dictator in 2016.

In the year AD 2100, an evil Dictator rules the United States. He maintains power through the clever use of advanced science and pyschology. And he is backed by a dedicated military clique…. From Robert A. Heinlein, the dean of space-age fiction, comes this thrilling novel of a soldier who dare to defy Authority who […]

One more suggestion about the “mystery missile”

The media has  been in a big flap recently about the so-called mystery missile that a KCBS cameraman shot off the coast of California.   The experts now say the missile launch was most likely a contrail  of an aircraft,  an optical illusion created by the setting sun, but as David Martin of CBS News […]