Science
Fiction
The essential difference between science fiction and fantasy is this:
With science fiction, the deeper you dig, the closer you get to the truth.
Taming the Perilous Skies
ANTI-GRAVITY CAN NEVER FAIL
On the morning of October 19, 2076, humanity is entering a new era of peace, prosperity, and shared purpose. Brian Medlock’s unified Theory of Persistence and his invention of anti-gravity have transformed the planet and our lives. His technology could never fail.
UNTIL IT DOES
At 8:11 am, everything changes, and the mild-mannered bureaucrat Jack Woods is handed the most consequential investigation in history. He must harness the irascible 95-year-old Medlock, quantum encryption genius Olivia Martorana, the White House, and an unruly mix of Italian scientists, politicians and priests, to piece together clues. The clock is ticking. If he doesn’t unravel the puzzle by 8:00 pm, his son will die.
TAMING THE PERILOUS SKIES is a hard sci-fi novel inspired by the author's theory of persistence that visualizes a technological world with significant implications for our own.
Defying Gravity
HOW I DID IT
Defying Gravity catapults readers into the spectacle of Brian Medlock’s most outrageous moment yet: a rhinestone-studded, anti-gravity performance at the world’s most prestigious physics conference. Part Broadway showstopper, part scientific reckoning, and all Medlock bravado, this dazzling short story delivers wit, wonder, and a finale that will leave you breathless.
One Man’s Persistence
Taking place a year after The Fall of 2076, acclaimed science biographer Sagan Franklin interviews Brian Medlock whose invention of anti-gravity saved the planet but also made the tragedy possible. As we journey through Medlock’s history of discovery and invention, we gain insights into the human toll that invention can bring. We also learn that Sagan’s motivations for the interview are personal, and her discoveries could be profound. She doesn’t have much time. With Medlock’s advanced age and failing health, his death is scheduled for the next day. This will be his final interview.
If Memory Serves
By 2126, society has been reshaped by Wendell Cooper’s “Cooper Caps,” which allow humans to relive, store, and share memories. While transformative, these shared experiences, combined with augmented reality bots, have led to a collective truth, stifling individuality and erasing irony and parody.
Saila Pinkerton, a researcher at the Cooper Memory Institute, uncovers a strange, universal memory shared by her study participants: a round, dimly lit ring or disc. Strangely, she holds the same memory with no identifiable origin. Teaming up with her childhood friend Derek Ross, a skilled programmer, and an iconographer, Saila discovers the memory is a deliberate message embedded in the universe’s Fabric by an unknown intelligence.
The memory, fading rapidly, connects to the Fall of 2076, a tragedy that claimed over 40 million lives. Racing against time, Saila and her team—Derek, Erik Woods, Kavi Batra, and Marco Fabrizio—dig into the past, uncovering ties between the gate and the Fall. Their work suggests humanity unknowingly received the key to unlocking the gate during a first contact.
As they close in on the truth, dark forces linked to the Fall resurface, determined to stop them. The gate holds the promise of discovery—or the risk of destruction. Time is running out.
The Fantastaverse Series
World One
We have just been introduced to our first extraterrestrial civilization. The invention of the Cooper Caps allowed us to tap into the timeless Fabric where we discovered a message left for us by an ancient species. These ambassadors, from what we come to know as World One, have left for us their dramatic story of first contact with the world before them, World Two.
WORLD ONE is a hard sci-fi novel built upon the prior works in my Persistence Universe. I hope it will be the first of many, each telling a fantastic story from yet another of many ancient worlds that have crossed our path in the timeless Fabric.
Welcome to a Fantastic World.