In the course of brainstorming the story I’m intimating at in (among other posts) “Crash Dive, Auntie!”, I’m wondering about the main characters’ hair color, how their aesthetic might have evolved in the eighteen years since the previous story; I know it might seem silly, … Continue readingManes of Metal
I’ve been giving some more thought to “A Bolt from the Blue”, mostly to various directions I could take the characters in the eighteen years between the start of the climate changes (as covered in the story that centers around the Great Christmas Blizzard) and … Continue readingCrash Dive, Auntie!
Okay, it took three weeks of literally being right on the sand where I could hear the waves day and night, and several days where I just lazed on the beach in the sunshine, but I dare say I’m a real California coast resident who’s … Continue readingA Bolt from the Blue
In my alternate timeline my sci-fi stories take in, Nikola Tesla gets into electronics, successfully inventing the transistor around the year 1900, speeding up computing as we know it by half a century. But with this newfound windfall, what becomes of his dream of wireless … Continue readingReal Wireless Power: Toward Teslapunk
I’ve covered the fate of the inland seas in my science-fictional alternate history in a previous post, but I assumed that the Salton Sea would just be replenished to its historical peak levels. But what “historical peak levels” are is subject to change in an … Continue readingWhat If: A Larger Salton Sea
The vision for the South Bay cities continues to expand. In particular, the vision of Rosecrans Avenue (among perhaps other areas of the near interior) being turned over into a canal, an inland counterpart of Marina del Rey, only surrounded by Coruscant-esque miles-tall buildings, is … Continue readingSail for the Tall Waters Only
When Donald Trump says “nobody has ever seen a movement like this”…he’s not wrong. Already his second presidency has distinguished itself in one way: the unique way he did not hold his hand on top of a Bible as he took the oath of office. … Continue readingOf Inaugurations Other
Having lived across the west side of Greater Los Angeles for a while now, some ideas for the futuristic form it takes in my science-fictional alternate timeline I set my stories in have started to crystalize better…and one such story is “Children of the Storm” … Continue readingAfter Children of the Storm: Into the South Bay
American ski instruction, despite being located in “the land of the free and the home of the brave”, has a reputation for being slow, cautious, safety-oriented, and rule-obsessed, a reputation it deserves in contrast with places like Scandinavia or the Alps, the latter of which … Continue readingWhite Paradise
Light pollution is a well-recognized problem, severing human beings who live in urban areas (alas, the vast majority of us these days) from our primordial right to look up into the sky and gaze in wonder at endless twinkling points of light when the sun … Continue readingTake Back the Night?