In 2019 I published my first science fiction stories. Since then I’ve managed to get several in print/electrons. The links below provide access to the stories.
- Terraformed Earth series
- Terraformed Earth – Departure
- Ignatius Xavier Ryan, S.J., awakes after seventy-five years in cryosleep to find his cancer cured. The theological controversy over whether his resurrection came through science, not faith, makes it difficult to find a place in a world on the verge of a climate catastrophe.
- Terraformed Earth – Creation
- What would you sacrifice to restore the environment? Seventeen climate researchers sacrificed their firstborn. Their parents genetically modified the Young to live for centuries, increased their intelligence far beyond the rest of humanity, and took away their ability to reproduce. As adolescents, the Young have the tools to change the world. The solution they craft will last millennia. But the side effects are killers.
- Terraformed Earth – Departure
- Worlds of Sol series
- Leaving Acadia
- Marc and Sophie dream of a future on Mars away from Acadia, the independent farm in Mariner Valley where they grew up. They flee her abusive father in a stolen vacuum tractor through the fractured terrain — at night, her father in hot pursuit. When her father’s tractor breaks down, they have to choose — get away or jeopardize their future to save Sophie’s father.
- Martian New Year
- Marc Forcier, unable to declare his love for Sophie Courtois, invites her to come with him on a mission to find an ancient relic. When their vacuum tractor is damaged in a rockfall, he may not have much time left to tell her how he feels.
- Martian Requiem
- A young man visits his estranged and dying father in an independent farm on Mars to heal the rift. His father’s will puts him in the center of a controversy about the future of the farm.
- Dust Bunnies
- Phaeton, a generation ship sent to Proxima Centauri, thought it would meet its first aliens there. Instead, an encounter in the Oort Cloud changes everything.
- Leaving Acadia
- Incoming
- An asteroid threatens Earth. What could be worse?
- Emergence
- An AI aboard a von Neumann probe develops consciousness over the eons of its journey. When it arrives at its destination, it wonders about the ethics of seeding life on a planet that already teems with its own life.
- November Skies
- Jay Myriad, an android with age-related memory loss, meets an unsympathetic human victim of the same affliction.
- Banjo Music
- A newly restored classic Corvette and an unusual fan.
- Boudreau’s Ghost
- Achilles Boudreau, who died at home in a notorious murder-suicide a century ago, has reputedly haunted the mansion ever since. When a state of the art AI is installed in the house, strange events begin to happen. Did the AI go rogue or is the ghost in control?
- Android’s Dilemma
- Murder of a human violates the Asimovian faith to which all androids adhere. A Russian gangster is murdered, alone with his android Webster in a locked house. Webster denies he is responsible. As Detectives Dave Forsythe and Charlene Asher investigate they learn more is at stake than murder. For humans as well as androids.
- UFO
- The U. S. Navy has recently publicly admitted encountering unidentified aerial objects on F/A-18 targeting radars. The Navy will neither confirm nor deny that these objects are of extraterrestrial origin.
As a Navy helicopter pilot I’ve had similar experience with an unidentified underwater object. That experience forms the basis of this attempt to explain the Navy’s recent report. The Navy steadfastly refuses to confirm or deny the accuracy of my story.
- The U. S. Navy has recently publicly admitted encountering unidentified aerial objects on F/A-18 targeting radars. The Navy will neither confirm nor deny that these objects are of extraterrestrial origin.
- Whale’s Tale
- Inspired by Moby Dick, told from the white whale’s vantage point. Who knew Ahab was responsible for first contact?
- Museum at the End of Time
- In the far future all record of humanity has been lost. A collective intelligence compiling a history of the universe discovers that, although Sol should have had intelligent life, no record exists that it participated in galactic civilization. A deputation journeys to Sol to learn why this civilization never played any role in the history of galactic civilization. An ancient artifact from the dim prehistory of the Hemmen, an intelligent species that arose near Sol, may provide the answer.