The recent release of a government report on UFOs leaves more questions unanswered than answered. There is little to link…
In my novel, Ezekiel’s Brain, plus in many other sci-fi AI stories (Pandora’s Brain, Robopocalypse, 2001 a Space Odyssey, Isaac…
I got the idea for my novel, Ezekiel’s Brain from reading Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence. Bostrom defines superintelligence as “any intellect…
In 2004, I wrote I, Carlos, a novel in which a new form of entertainment, called neurostories, involved implanting a…
Some books have the power to generate iconic images of the future. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, for instance, with…
Our human minds were constructed over hundreds of thousands of years (actually millions of years, considering pre-human evolution), cellular circuit…
Could humans disappear from earth? Far-fetched as it sounds, the chances of such an outcome are not as small as…
Today’s the day. Ezekiel’s Brain, my new mind-bending science fiction novel about artificial intelligence and space travel is published and…
Over the last several decades, science fiction has merged with fantasy and retrovisionary techno-fiction (e.g., steampunk), to expand its subject…
Many years ago, when I was in college, I remember hearing about a new TV series that was a “must…
World-renown experts on AI, such as Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nick Bostrom, claim that the central problem of AI development, especially…
It’s been awhile since I’ve communicated to all of you. But now I’ve got great news. My science fiction novel,…
Interested in speculative fiction—sci-fi, fantasy, supernatural, futuristic—novels? I’m a science fiction reader, a fan of novels about the future, robots, space…
There is a thin line between alternate history novels and science fiction. Both clearly belong in the category of speculative…
The Novelist as an Advocate I was tempted to call this newsletter entry, “Reading The Ministry for the Future in…