Future Chron Publishing

August 16, 2024

I mean, the whole idea of observers - that's a pedagogical thing. It's very convenient when you're trying to understand something to imagine doing an experiment or think about an observer doing something. But that doesn't have any...

August 14, 2024

Alternate Worlds #5

The rise of fantasy may have been only a trend led by a best-selling trilogy [Lord of the Rings], or it may have represented the abandonment of a search for rational solutions.James Gunn - Alternate Worlds

July 25, 2024

The Next 500 Years #1

. . . The fundamental thesis of this book is that the same innate, biological capacities of ingenuity and creation that have enabled humans to build rockets to reach other planets will also be needed for designing and engineering the orga...

June 10, 2024

Quantum Mechanics #4

And I thought that, say, fifty years ago, that this would happen, that these revolutions [quantum mechanics, relativity] and advances in science would have an effect on mankind - on morals, on sociology, whatever. It hasn't happened. We're still up t...

June 08, 2024

Alternate Worlds #2

Science fiction is based upon the belief that the world is changing, that the way we live is changing, and that humanity will adjust to it, or will adjust change to humanity, or will perish.James Gunn - Alternate Worlds

June 05, 2024

Quantum Mechanics #3

With science I felt I could grab on to actual things and try to understand them. And then they turn out to be so extraordinarily mysterious! Newton's laws of motion, the laws of the electromagnetic field, relativity - they're so far removed...

June 04, 2024

Alternate Worlds #1

In any case we live, indisputably, in a science-fiction world. All around us we see evidences of a new order: life is not what it was for our fathers and mothers, and certainly not what it was for their fathers and mothers. Life moves faster, and we ...

May 31, 2024

Quantum Mechanics #2

Quantum mechanics and relativity affected me deeply - personally. It affected my attitude toward the world. I've always thought of physics as a sort of ivory tower, from which you venture forth into all other human affairs, of all kinds. That's why I...

May 27, 2024

Engineering Cells

By the mid-2030s or 2040s, ideally, we will be able to get human boots on Mars, enabling us to directly see how humans respond to Martian living and how well our “molecular risk mitigation” plans work. Once there, we will be able to test more genetic...

May 23, 2024

The Next 500 Years - Christopher E. Mason

Deontogenic ethics includes four simple pieces: (1) consciousness must exist to be used; (2) long-term survival depends on plans to extend beyond the solar system in which our species originated; (3) long-term survival depends on the metaspecies, but...

May 20, 2024

Quantum Mechanics #1

“At first there were very few who believed in the existence of these bodies smaller than atoms. I was even told long afterwards by a distinguished physicist who had been present at my lecture at the Royal Institution that he thought I had been 'pulli...

May 17, 2024

The Next 500 Years - Christopher E. Mason

To save life, we will need to engineer it. Notably, humans are already accidentally engineering life and directing evolution; now it is time to do it with volition, direction, and purpose.

May 15, 2024

Time Wars: Complete

Now for a limited time there is a special price of 99 cents (regular $4.99) for the ebook version of the Time Series trilogy of novels, Time Wars: Complete. Only on this store. Click for more information.Hard Science Fiction – Old School.

April 24, 2024

Remembered Earth Universe: Lunar Series

The next series in the Remembered Earth Universe follows the early settlement of the Moon.In the Remembered Earth Universe: Lunar Series those that would capitalize Moon settlement want it done as cheaply as possible, that would be with AI and robot...

April 24, 2024

Remembered Earth Universe: Cislunar Series

The Remembered Earth Universe covers the science and technology of the next hundred years, as mankind moves into cislunar space (defined as that space in and around the Earth-Moon system and slightly beyond), and takes tentative steps to destinations...

April 24, 2024

Manifold Earth Universe

Globalization unraveling, governments failing, the world lurching towards wars and famines.Some thought that space resources could mitigate the damage. But chemical rockets couldn't bring those resources to Earth in economical quantities.New ideas we...

April 01, 2024

The Future Chron Universe (and Suggested Reading Order)

My first "universe," Future Chron, is complete at this time, it consists of 8 short stories, 15 novellas, 1 short novel, and 9 novels. It is generally a far future universe.I have been writing in this universe since the end of 2015 (the last nov...

From The Earth: Book 1, A Collection

From The Earth: Book 1, A Collection

Mach's Metric: Wormhole Series Book 1

Mach's Metric: Wormhole Series Book 1

Mach's Mission: Wormhole Series Book 2

Mach's Mission: Wormhole Series Book 2

Open Space: A Collection

Open Space: A Collection

Mach's Legacy: Wormhole Series Book 3

Mach's Legacy: Wormhole Series Book 3

Spin-Two: Robot Series Book 1

Spin-Two: Robot Series Book 1

Robot Planet: Robot Series Book 2

Robot Planet: Robot Series Book 2

The Lattice Of Space: Robot Series Book3

The Lattice Of Space: Robot Series Book3

Time Wars: Time Series Book 1

Time Wars: Time Series Book 1

Time's End: Time Series Book 2

Time's End: Time Series Book 2

Frozen Time: Time Series Book 3

Frozen Time: Time Series Book 3

Whatsoever You Do: A Novella

Whatsoever You Do: A Novella

War Through The Pines: A Novella

War Through The Pines: A Novella

Vigilance: A Novella

Vigilance: A Novella

To Tend And Watch Over: A Novella

To Tend And Watch Over: A Novella

Union: A Novella

Union: A Novella

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