by David Backman | Dec 20, 2024 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night) September 29, 2043 Lai nervously tapped her right foot on the plush navy-blue carpet as she waited in the small reception area for her interview with the director of the Harvard Center for Astrophysics. It...
by David Backman | Dec 9, 2024 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night) February 16, 2049 NASA Director José de la Cruz had barely settled into the black leather desk chair in his Washington office when his holopad chimed. “Director,” the male voice of his AI assistant said from...
by David Backman | Nov 27, 2024 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night) November 27, 2053 Must get coffee! Lai thought as she walked sleepily down the gray corridor toward the commissary. It was not quite six in the morning, but she couldn’t sleep due to her thin, lumpy mattress...
by David Backman | Nov 18, 2024 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night) October 21, 2054 Arnaud Houde was awakened by Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries, which was the ring tone for the retired aerospace executive’s hPhone. The elderly man had dozed off while enjoying the warm...
by David Backman | Nov 8, 2024 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night) February 5, 2036, 3:27 p.m. As Daniel Bennett stood to one side of the East Room of the White House, comforting and thanking Aida Pendamai’s close friends and family at her funeral reception, he noticed the...
