by David Backman | Oct 20, 2025 | Blog
If you’ve read my debut sci-fi novel The Lightning in the Collied Night or its sequel The Loss of What Is Past, you know that the protagonist Lai Shen was an atheist. And perhaps you wondered why I made that choice. She was, after all, the child of devout...
by David Backman | Sep 26, 2025 | Blog
Author’s Note: The following scene suggests an alternate ending for The Loss of What Is Past. If I’d included it in that book, it would have been the final scene of the Epilogue. Fair warning that it goes beyond the realm of science fiction. But it resolves some...
by David Backman | Aug 19, 2025 | Blog
Author’s Note: To mark the first anniversary of the publication of The Lightning in the Collied Night, I offer you with a wink and a smile a micro-story that is based on the first scene in that novel’s sequel, The Loss of What Is Past. This story depicts...
by David Backman | Jul 28, 2025 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night and The Loss of What Is Past) SPOILER ALERT: There are spoilers below for both The Lightning in the Collied Night and The Loss of What Is Past. 28 July 2061 “Are you sure you can’t come with us, Daddy?” Yinuo...
by David Backman | Jun 23, 2025 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night and The Loss of What Is Past) SPOILER ALERT: There are spoilers below for both The Lightning in the Collied Night and The Loss of What Is Past. 24 December 2071 Yinuo sat on the large sofa with her eyes shut....
