After a slight delay, publication day, February 15th, is complete. We’ll just say that publication “day” ran for 36 hours. Apparently, paperback books on Amazon KDP require a “special” and more expensive ISBN number. The alternative was to use a free Amazon KDP ISBN but that would have meant it could have only been published
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Announcements, BooksI had a great chat with Dr. Justin Ball of the Swiss Plasma Center at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) last weekend. He provided some helpful updates to my speculative science in the previous “The Science of When Morpheus Overslept” installments. The takeaways from our talk were: 1. There are two types of gravitons:
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BooksSo, you want to travel faster than light? Prepare yourself for a wild ride! In this final blog on the science of When Morpheus Overslept, I will describe the method of superluminal travel called Bardolian Superluminal Drive. But first, a little history… Graviton Drive (described in Part 2) naturally made scientists think about the logical
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BooksIn Part 2 of this series on the technology of When Morpheus Overslept, I will describe the way Graviton Drive was developed during the late 21st and early 22nd centuries, and this is indeed the meat of this topic since its use drives not only the spaceship in which the main characters travel but also
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BooksNot very much of my debut novel, When Morpheus Overslept, involves heavy use of hard science fiction. Though I spent a great deal of time—almost as much as writing the first draft—developing the technology that drove my world, very little of it actually came out in the finished novel, just as it should be. Nevertheless,
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