The Science and Questions of my Fiction
Rocks can store and release heat and–in my world–power hot “magical” contraptions
How strange and thoroughly surprising: In the just-released Book 3 of Conquerors of K'Tara, Darkness Gains, I wrote a scene where the Umbra shares a Zebulonian technology with his Yeltcheki contacts in exchange for their ships. This technology is seen as magical by...
Will we still be Humans?
You may or may not know that there exists an international philosophical movement called Transhumanism, which argues for the transformation of humanity through the adoption of advanced existing or yet-to-be-developed technologies in order to bring about our...
Will the development and consumption of synthetic meats save us and the planet?
Foreword: You might wonder, and rightly so, why this topic is in any way related to my fiction. But it is, although in a very indirect manner. Still, the topic is most important, and because I am a biologist, I wished to discuss it when I heard about Impossible...
Can we prepare for the consequences of living potentially eternal lives?
It is a desire as old as humanity to be able to live forever. Our forefathers exalted eternal life as a gift that could be granted to the faithful or to the pure, and we continue to celebrate and even revere the long-lived; we exalt them in Kung-Fu movies as we do in...
The Future of Human Relationships and its Impacts on Us (and on my Novel’s Characters)
You may wonder what this topic has to do with my novel, which is not a self-help book or a sociological treatise. But though part of the story is set on a planet with a fantasy-like environment, it is a book about the future. And, as I try to peer into this future,...
Bacteria Produce Electricity
Microbe-Generated Electricity The production of electricity by bacteria is a topic which has interested me for a long time, even from before I started writing Conquerors of K'Tara. Of course, we humans are also capable of generating electricity, but we do so only to...
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