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The Spark Anomaly

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“...Indiana Jones [style] action/adventure...  good, solid s/f… with characters we relate to and care about... Cathy and the housekeeping robots made me laugh out loud.”

- Star Trek novelist Margaret W Bonanno

Grieving the loss of her father, Cathy Fisher solves homework problems  unaware that her solutions hold the key to saving the Earth

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Her professor, engineering adventurer Arnold Spark, searches the globe for the apocalyptic truth behind recent cataclysmic events’, aided by:

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  • Helen, a bereaved widow, who blames Spark for her husband’s death;

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  • Soona, a lonely lunar robot, who must escape her cruel human captors to solve a billion year old mystery on the comet Charybdis;

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“What happens when 2 earthquakes occur 42 minutes apart in Chili and China?” 


Answer: The end of the world. 

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Future Technologies

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Anechoic Library

The anechoic library is an example of a technology designed by a fictional professor with a terrible business plan...

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Lee Tree Buildings

Given the recent discovery of extreme high tensile strength materials such as graphene and nano-tubes it doesn’t take a genius to realize that office buildings of the future will have a dramatically different look and structure...

Prena's Eye

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Bob Fisher designs NASA software to predict what life might be like on a gas giant, and inadvertently creates a world:

  • where sentient beings have evolved after millions of simulated generations; 

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  • where exotic creatures swim in a thick alien atmosphere

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  • where a tyrannical Bishop oppresses a noble Garn population;

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  • where a simple programming error is considered a holy magical artifact;

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Follow Tritarb's adventures across space and time to an unknown wilderness where he struggles to reconcile his scientific mindset and atheistic beliefs with the existence of a god-like stranger who can control life and death, but can't comprehend his language.

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In the beginning God was bored...

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In the summer of 1986, when I was young, cocky and naive, I wrote my own evolution program...

Author's Note

In 1978 I attended an electronics tradeshow with my father and saw an Apple II computer displaying a collage of overlapping colored boxes.  Every second or so, the computer added a new rectangle in a vibrant color display; much more impressive than the low resolution black and white graphics of Radio Shack’s TRS-80...

Origin of the Preen Orb

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