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People of Light 1

By John Folk-Williams

People of Light

People of Light 1 is a first glimpse into a world called Elektra, settled by humans in the past two hundred years, a past, of course, far in our future. This begins a series of interconnected stories that will appear here in draft form and will ultimately be published as a single book. 1.K’Lin picked […]

Filed Under: Stories of Elektra Tagged With: alien life forms, consciousness, Elektra, extraterrestrial intelligence, mind, symbionts

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky – A Review for #SciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Children of Time

I needed to re-read Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky because I was tone-deaf years ago to what the author was doing when I first opened this novel. Yeah, I was a bit turned off by characters who were spiders but more so by the narrative voice of those sections describing their evolution. There was […]

Filed Under: SciFiMonth, Space Opera Tagged With: Adrian Tchaikovsky, alien life forms, civilization, commmunication, gods, language, power, religion, terraforming, war

Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov: A Re-Reading for #SciFiMonth

By John Folk-Williams

Second Foundation

To finish up my re-reading of Isaac Asimov’s original Foundation trilogy, this week I’m looking at his Second Foundation. The novel, published in this form in 1953, is a reprinting of two novellas published in Astounding magazine in 1948-50. This third novel may not have quite the dramatic impact of The Mule (in Foundation and […]

Filed Under: SciFiMonth, Space Opera, Vintage Science Fiction Tagged With: altered minds, consciousness, future history, galactic empires, Isaac Asimov, power, psychic powers, spaceships

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Something is struggling to be born in this damaged and inspiring world, and I believe science fiction and its speculative cousins are helping us figure out what it is. It’s pushing the imaginations of fiction writers to bend and twist familiar forms to try to capture the forces that are hurling us into a barely conceivable future. This blog is my small way of exploring the half-perceived … Read More about About

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