Image: ID 116900672 © Tom Cerny | Dreamstime(dot)com According to my notes this story was started in December 2014 but not completed until February 2017. Rather it was written and then expanded later to novella length. It is one of the first stories...

Image: Bruce Rolff To Tend And Watch Over was finished in January 2017, I’m not sure when it was started. However, when it was first written it was about half the size of the current story. So, I must have several months before. I remember I added a...

Image: NASA Vigilance was finished and published in December 2016. It was the first time the From The Earth series moved off Earth. Set on Mars, it represents the break between those that would explore and those that would stay on Earth. And that th...

Image: 3000ad - Spaceship wheel near Earth - dreamstime(dot)com War Through The Pines was finished in November 2016. As I say in the Acknowledgements, it was partially inspired by George Friedman’s book The Next 100 Years. He predicts that a war in ...

Image: Kjpargeter Whatsoever You Do was finished in August 2016. It had started somewhat earlier as a short story only about the main character Jack and his efforts to develop a vaccine quickly. Many chapters were added to that short story (CDC rese...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, you could read a book just for the fun of it. And if it wasn't fun, you could throw it against the wall (which was fun).

Let us form of ourselves an army of starship troopers, gird on our tungsten armor, and go forth to do battle with Chaos and the minions of darkness. Let us unfurl the green and golden banners of our cosmic crusade, storm the bastions of vacuum, sow ...

ROCKET SEASONManifold Earth UniverseVolume 5Rocket Series:Collection 1D.W. PATTERSONCopyright © 2024 D.W. PattersonAll rights reserved.First D2D Printing – July, 2024Future Chron PublishingCover – Copyright © 2024 D.W. PattersonCover Image – Photo 11...

THE REALM A NovelD.W. PATTERSONCopyright © 2025 D.W. PattersonAll rights reserved.Third Printing – February 2025Future Chron PublishingCover – Copyright © 2025 D.W. PattersonCover Image – Copyright © ID 8151340 © Luca Oleastri | Dreamstime.comNo part...

I mean, the whole idea of observers - that's a pedagogical thing. It's very convenient when you're trying to understand something to imagine doing an experiment or think about an observer doing something. But that doesn't have any...

The rise of fantasy may have been only a trend led by a best-selling trilogy [Lord of the Rings], or it may have represented the abandonment of a search for rational solutions.James Gunn - Alternate Worlds

  . . . The fundamental thesis of this book is that the same innate, biological capacities of ingenuity and creation that have enabled humans to build rockets to reach other planets will also be needed for designing and engineering the orga...

And I thought that, say, fifty years ago, that this would happen, that these revolutions [quantum mechanics, relativity] and advances in science would have an effect on mankind - on morals, on sociology, whatever. It hasn't happened. We're still up t...

Science fiction is based upon the belief that the world is changing, that the way we live is changing, and that humanity will adjust to it, or will adjust change to humanity, or will perish.James Gunn - Alternate Worlds

With science I felt I could grab on to actual things and try to understand them. And then they turn out to be so extraordinarily mysterious! Newton's laws of motion, the laws of the electromagnetic field, relativity - they're so far removed...