Marooned in Space

by | Oct 10, 2024 | Space

Two astronauts stranded on the international space station have been in the news recently. The Starliner transport module, developed by Boeing, was stricken with propulsion issues leaving the two people on the station with no means of returning to earth. It got me...

Building in Space

by | Jun 27, 2024 | Space

Space X recently completed their first successful flight of their gigantic Starship spacecraft. That got me thinking of how we could use it to ship larger payloads into space. This would help construct larger space stations and other structures faster. That then got...

The Ninth Planet

by | May 15, 2024 | Space

Is there a ninth planet out there beyond Pluto? Scientists have speculated such a celestial body since the 1850’s. And yet no one can find it. Unexplained movement of the outer planets Jupiter and Saturn led astronomers to believe more planets were out there....

Gatacus Todd – Retirement

by | Apr 11, 2024 | Short Story

  Gatacus Todd – Retirement Gatacus Todd gazed at his desk in the Police Department Homicide division on Xerxes or what he hoped was the last time. After almost 23 years of detective work, he was finally throwing in the towel and retiring. He had enough of the...

Crime in the 26th Century

by | Feb 29, 2024 | Science, Virgo, Zodiac Series

  Crime in the 26th Century In my book, Virgo, I describe an assassination where the assassin injected nanites into the bloodstreams of the victims. These nanites used the victim’s own blood as a feedstock to manufacture the toxin that killed them, the nanites...