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Blood memory of an otherworldly paradise upon the ruined light of day’s end, and the moon like a hammerclaw. That was the hour. There. On the dimmed shore of night. In a desolate lot cluttered with old tires, rusted bedsprings, and spikes of weeds. There, an angel stood upright and proud against purple light, winged, […]

William Hunt Jr. has created a gallery of character portraits from my novel The Last Legends of Earth using Wonder, an AI image generator. This medium is so condign with science fiction, I’m moved to display some of his portraits here along with quotes from the novel. The images occupy the synapse between text and […]

Who speaks for the Kenning Stone? Not Merlin. Merlin speaks for no one since Nimue beguiled him. Though he raised the great stone from Cimmerian caverns to clasp Excalibur, the wizard could not lift himself above lust. The Wiccan women he took as lovers stole his power. In the enchanted forest of Brocéliande, he wanders […]

In the dream of a memory, we are again protists (prōtistos “the very first”). Two billion years ago, starved for nitrogen in the primordial sea, two protists tried to cannibalize each other and instead merged their nucleoli. From the very beginning then, food and sex became one joy! The combined protists contained two of everything: […]

Cybernetic superintelligence is emerging from our simian minds. Are we strong enough for this uncanny face-off with an artifact smarter than we are? Quick assessment: We’ve been strong enough to break open atoms and peer inside the nucleus at the colorful dance moves of quarks and quark-pairs called gluons jitterbugging at the speed of light. […]

Most of the particles in the universe are entangled.1 Entangled particles in 3D are connected by wormholes in 4D.2 By the way (and this is really interesting), the entanglement of wormholes doesn’t occur in spacetime. It actually creates spacetime.3 And, as everyone now knows, spacetime is expanding ever faster thanks to dark energy. It will […]