I have long avoided writing “Christian Fiction” due to the distaste of trying to preach my own beliefs that way. Yet, I can’t avoid my own upbringing and the beliefs I live with. In a story as large as the Project Saga, there are a couple of things that came out. In the U’tanse Branch,… Continue reading Project Saga Themes: Religion
Project Saga Themes: Tractor/Pressor Beams
Tractor beams are a staple of science fiction space adventures, but I never liked them. They were all too random, with no real science behind them. They were just a lazy prop—a bit of fantasy thrown in to help with the story. A long time ago, I invented the tractor beam technology I would use. … Continue reading Project Saga Themes: Tractor/Pressor Beams
Project Saga Themes: Artificial Intelligence
In Star Time, the male lead character was Abe, a technological wizard with his own design center creating electronic gadgets and such. One of his side projects was a mesh computer running the “Hodgepodge” software. Abe had discovered a research project at another research center in Austin, Texas that was creating a “Common Sense” database. … Continue reading Project Saga Themes: Artificial Intelligence