by David Backman | Aug 16, 2024 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night) June 20, 2052 Meira’s and Katherine’s eyes were glued to the main monitor in the tiny Flight Control room of the Prometheus base. The monitor was fed from an outdoor video camera that overlooked Silo 1. They...
by David Backman | Aug 5, 2024 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night) February 13, 2039 Lai looked up from the research paper on the Zeeman effect that she was reading on her pad for her Quantum Mechanics II class and gazed out the window of her room in the Sally Ride House....
by David Backman | Jul 26, 2024 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night) October 2, 2034 Daniel sat in a brown leather swivel chair at his West Wing office desk as he finished reading the report on his pad. He looked up when he heard a knock on the door; it partially opened, and...
by David Backman | Jun 14, 2024 | Blog
The realm of science fiction is often that of the future, whether the near future, or many centuries or even millennia from now. There are many exceptions, especially when aliens bring the fiction to the story. The Day the Earth Stood Still, Starman, E.T., and...
by David Backman | May 24, 2024 | Blog
In my last three blog posts, I gave my thoughts on what the world might be like 30 years from now—overall, and specifically in terms of technology and the environment. That’s an important question for my first novel, The Lightning in the Collied Night, because most of...
