• Read an eBook!

    It’s READ AN EBOOK WEEK! Totally psyched to be able to offer both of my WalrusTech eBooks for 75% off over on SMASHWORDS. Get some Dalight Savings Time Sci- Fi thrills and chills. The Dent in the Universe The Aurora’s Pale Light Sale ends Saturday March 7, 2026.

  • Wheee! Strip Mining the moon!

    For thousands of years young lovers looked up and found romance beneath the full moon. Now they’ll have to make do with the sarred, skid-marked face of the man in the moon staring back. enshittification on a planetray scale. Whee.

  • So uh…

    Wouldn’t that make Trump the Antichist? Military Leaders Say Iran War Is So Trump Can Bring About “Armageddon”

  • A Fresh Look

    It’s been nearly five years since I last refreshed my website. Hell, it’s been a year since my last blog post before my Interstellar review. As you can see with your own eyes, the design of this thing is much changed. Or, maybe you never saw the old place. Well, trust me. It’s a change. One of the big reasons for the change is the world outside. It’s changed too…

  • Interstellar: Beautiful lunacy

    Lunacy – from Late Latin lunaticus “moon-struck,” from Latin luna “moon” The yearning to reach the stars runs deep in Baby Boomers like myself. We grew up with the deep, ingrained, cultural mythos that we were headed for a moon base by the end of the 1970s and, after that the planets. Beyond that, the stars. But then the Reagan years and the drumbeat for smaller government and lower taxes for the wealthy and…

  • Whiskey and Warfare

    “Old Woman’s War” is how I characterized Whiskey and Warfare by E.M. Hamill when someone asked me what I was reading for SPSFC4. While I found John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War sort of meh, this book feels like a more mature, more heartfelt exploration of similar ground. Given the opportunity would someone of middle age want to dive into a life of a mercenary soldier for hire? What would that…

SCIENCE FICTION – DOUBLE FEATURE

Reality is weird. The science that reflects our understanding of reality is weird. The very mission of science fiction is to reflect that weirdness in ways that fill the reader with wonder. Science fiction writers aren’t here to repeat comfortable tropes. We’re here to make the reader confront the unabashed nuttiness of reality and their place in it.

E.W. Doc Parris

Author, Artist, Developer