Writing Projects
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INNER SPACE & OUTER THOUGHTS
Science Fiction Anthology
Fact ignites fiction in this first-of-its-kind anthology of speculative tales by Caltech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) scientists, engineers, technologists, and students. Experts at the frontiers of their fields, along with renowned Caltech alumni such as David Brin, S.B. Divya, and Larry Niven, present stories about alien astrobiologists, AI parenthood, a quest to preserve our histories beyond the heat death of the universe, a heist to steal engineering secrets from an ancient monk-scientist, the recovery of a long-lost phase of the human life cycle, the demise of Earth's first intelligent species—billions of years before the rise of humanity, and more!
Illustration by Ryan F. Doyle
RAISING THE ROOF
Young Reader Space Adventure Novel
Fifteen-year-old Talulah (Tullie) has a passion for the natural world, and sensitivity to how history mistreated her Choctaw people. Only now, suddenly, “history” gets personal. One day—in the middle of a swim lesson—a message appears literally out of nowhere, inviting her to the twenty-fourth century!
Future folk have been recruiting teens from across time, to travel and explore where adults can’t. Along with a computer whiz-kid, a free diver from nineteenth century Ceylon, a cabin boy from 1906 arctic explorations, plus some future-time youths, Tullie is tasked with leading her team to an ice-roofed ocean world, many light-years away! Oh, and—especially for this mission to an ocean planet—the crew includes a Hawaiian octopus.
Braving radiation storms, ice tunnels, and lightless watery depths—plus a helpful but unreliable robot—Tullie and her comrades face a ticking countdown. They must find a way to protect this amazing world’s ecosystem before it’s too late!
Cover art by Chris Baker aka Fangorn
ONE MILLION TIMES
Book of Stories
Take a plunge into unplumbed depths of human emotion, where melancholy and regret intertwine with the relentless passage of time—and the elusive search for redemption. Our world explores the realms of mystery, thriller, sci-fi, and horror, anchored in credible, hard science storytelling.
Enter the world of One Million Times—a tribute to the enigmas of time travel. Our narrative unravels a clandestine society of time travelers hidden beneath the surface of our contemporary world. Picture a constant influx of visitors from varied future epochs, arriving in successive waves. Where time-hopping isn't just a fantastical notion; it's the new normal.
Our series adopts an anthology format, with each protagonist a modern-day Aladdin seeking a Traverser-in-a-lamp, a distorted and enigmatic version of the Arabian genie—capable, in the protagonist's fevered imagination, of granting the ultimate life-saving wish!
But why do these exceptional time travelers converge upon our era? That's the tantalizing mystery we'll keep shrouded until the electrifying climax—at 'The Conflux.'
THE FIFTH WALL
Speculative Thriller
While performing on stage, Frank Gemmaio finds himself facing the magician’s ultimate nightmare: the inexplicable, occurring within his own act. When evidence of sabotage and deepening mystery leave him at a loss, Frank desperately turns to help from a dangerous source. Prof. Bastian B. Broch, a physicist who has issued a public challenge to debunk any magician’s act.
With their relationship fraught with distrust from the outset, Broch does not reveal that he has no ready explanation. The professor takes charge by designing a proper experiment, which leads him unexpectedly into a belief system crisis—seeming to admit the possibility of an unknown power at the intersection of physical and psychological reality.
The peril mounts for Frank, his alluring assistant Collata, and Broch’s brilliant student Marisa as first a destructive brainwashing cult and later a modern gaming technology company pursue their own ambitions to harness the putative power— if it exists.