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 | Jul 16, 2024 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night) July 19, 2051 Here we go! Katherine thought as she stepped into the conference room in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington. She turned off her phone, tucked it back into her purse, and looked around...
by David Backman | Jul 5, 2024 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night) September 18, 2037 Lai dragged herself up the stairs to the second floor of Crothers Hall, exhausted from her first full week of classes at Stanford University. I should have my head examined for taking...
by David Backman | Jun 24, 2024 | Blog
In my previous blog post , I covered some of the technologies that sci-fi writers have predicted we’ll have in the future. I used some of the tech from the Star Trek universe as examples, since it wasn’t possible to cover all sci-fi tech in one post. One of those...
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...
