Wow, we're about halfway through the year, already! Hard to
believe. It seems just like yesterday that I was celebrating the release of my
second novel, “The Battle of Broken Moon,” but that was back in March.
So far, I feel as if I’ve already packed a year into five months.
Recently, I have been
giving thought, just for the purpose of experimentation, to writing outside my
chosen genre. All my ideas and concepts
always seem to come about, and morph into Sci-fi, and or, Fantasy.
Having an interest in the genre
within which you write is, to my mind, paramount. I can’t imagine sitting down
to write something for which I have no interest: stamp collecting, and golf,
come to mind.
Now, it is not my intent to belittle either philately or the links, they just aren’t my
cup of tea.
Regardless of how enthralled an author may be with the tome they
are pouring their emotion into, there is always something that author must
become more familiar with in order to give the story gravitas. Be it the right
way to saddle a horse, the correct lay out of a long forgotten western town, or
thrust to weight ratios.
I have learned a great deal in the researches I’ve done in support
of my Sci-fi novels.
I’ve learned about new technologies
that promise humanity a much faster ability to sail between the planets.
I’ve discovered the “multiverse”, the theory that points to an
endless number of universes all around ours, like billions of soap bubbles
crowding a child’s birthday party.
The possibility that
there is a countless number of me out there, each making a different decision
at every question; answer the phone or no, turn right, left, buy that house…
each decision spiraling that other me into an entirely new future. It’s called,
“string theory.”
I have come to understand that the universe is far stranger, and
more complex than the human mind is capable of comprehending.
On a positive note, this means that no matter how outrageous,
outlandish, weird, or bizarre an author paints his world, either in deep space,
or on planet Earth…he can’t be wrong.
It’s all possible, in string theory.
At night, as I gaze up
into the heavens, I imagine my eyes as super powered light receptors. From
beyond the Moon, beyond the Milky Way, past the stars in Orion’s belt, and the
great Bootes Void, outside the realm of the visible universe come superluminal
communications in data bursts too fast to be detected by poor terrestrial
sensors.
Within these communications come stories of great daring,
accomplished by individuals who reside on other planes of existence, some as
far away as the Hercules Supercluster. Others from entire universes that exist
all around us, in the same space, and others deep within a single fleck of dust
now sitting atop a long forgotten book in your own library.
As the Bard speaketh, “There are more things in heaven and Earth,
Horatio — than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
Amen.
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