A Future to Avoid
The short story Bone Song has been accepted for publication in Jupiter (Jan 2010 edition).
Try a thought experiment. The rules of the universe in which we live are hard, unfair, uncompromising. The speed of light is a real limit, and alien worlds are precisely that - alien - and nowhere we will ever really call home without unimaginable sacrifice. The future is one of slow travel, and fast genetics, a place in which giant creatures that were once men inch their way between the stars, and of planets where mankind has not just ceased to be one species, but is the basis of entire eco-systems. The future, looked at from the comfort of small, snug, Earth, is a place to avoid.
Lost Mission: an alien derelict drifts out by Barnard's Star.
Here you’ll find the Story Arc, listing stories set in the world/s our thought experiment creates. There’s the Fragmenta-pedia an incomplete (but ever growing) catalogue of that future, including a brief history, a directory of places, and a list of species. Then, there are the all important Assumptions – if the future’s a thought experiment, these are the parameters. Oh, there’s also a bit with some interesting links, and the obligatory ‘about me’ page.