Skip to content

Tag Archives: sci-fi

Consolidation

This is the second part of a series of short stories I am doing called “Reconstruction”. The series began with “Asteroid”, which I intended as a stand alone story; however, I had a number of requests to continue the story – as a result “Consolidation” was created. Hopefully I don’t detract from the original short story by continuing the theme, but it’s a little late to worry about that now. Enjoy, and look for the next part or the series, “Decontamination”, sometime in the near future. Happy New Year!

Posted 03 January 2010 † RR § fiction ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , ,

Asteroid

Tweet“I’m sick of watching the news. TURN IT OFF!” Who needs to be constantly reminded of their impending death anyway. It’s not bad enough that we’re all gonna die but they have to keep reminding us. …CANNOT EXPLAIN WHY THEY DIDN‘T SEE IT SOONER. ONE ASTRONOMER COMMENTED THAT IT IS A BIG AREA TO COVER [...]

Posted 30 November 2009 † RR § fiction ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Here Comes The Future

TweetOne of the tragedies of our time is that we’ve caught up to our future. Star Trek, in the mid-60s, posited that there would be something called the “Eugenics Wars” in the late 1990s. Gene Roddenberry didn’t worry about making up this rather silly (in hindsight) bit of canon arcana, because, after all, 1999 was [...]

Posted 27 November 2009 † DA § essay ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , ,