by David Backman | Jan 23, 2025 | Blog
Sixty-five years ago today—January 23, 1960—two brave explorers dared to go where no person had gone before: to the deepest point of the Earth’s oceans. Swiss engineer and oceanographer Jacques Piccard and U.S. Navy Lieutenant Don Walsh (pictured above; Piccard...
by David Backman | Dec 30, 2024 | Blog
(Based on characters in The Lightning in the Collied Night) October 15, 2052 “Kapono, I’ve completed static, unit, and integration testing of the language subroutines for Patch 15,” Asnee Shinawatra said over his shoulder to the Prometheus Project’s chief scientist....
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 | 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...