Good morning, friends and fans! Quite a lot of my stories have featured aspects of military life in a distant sci-fi future. In writing, personal experience had proved an invaluable resource, and since I was in the military for a large portion of my youth (for better or worse), I’ve built up quite a treasure…
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Prisons Of The Future – In Sci-fi, Galaxii, & Their Relation To The Contemporary
Hello again, friends and fans! Modern prisons have been the setting for movies, books and series too numerous to mention. Some writers and movie makers have speculated about what form futuristic prisons might take – and they range from the ambitiously humanitarian and rehabilitative concepts of “Star Trek” and “Magnus, Robot Fighter“, to the opposite…
The Tech Side #15 Airlocks
Good morning, friends and fans! Airlocks – sci-fi is full of them. Virtually every sci-fi series or movie out there makes use of the airlock as a plot device or at least as a feature of the story – we’ve seen them used to great effect in Star Trek, Event Horizon, the Aliens franchise –…
The Tech Side #14: Imperial Starships – Shuttles & Shuttle Bays
Good morning, friends and fans! Shuttles are often a feature in sci-fi, and the Galaxii universe is no exception. Shuttles are generally smaller space craft used to carry crew or cargo between space ships or between a space ship and a planet. Sometimes they’re used as lifeboats. The notion of a ship carrying smaller craft…
The Tech Side #13 Imperial Starships – Battlespringers
Hello there, friends and fans! In the Galaxii universe, battlespringers are scaled-down compact starships used by the Terran Space Fleet. Several of my stories are set aboard battlespringers, for example short stories, “The Devils In The Sky” and “Beyond”, so my readers should be slightly familiar with these ships. When I first envisioned battlespringers, how…
The Tech Side #12: Imperial Starships – The Medical Complex
Hello again, friends and fans! Starship sickbays – we’ve seen all kinds over the years, haven’t we? Examples include the warm sickbay of the Enterprise, to the industrial, austere treatment centers of Star Wars, overshadowed by industrial overtones and staffed by droids, to the grungy austere sickbay of Serenity in Firefly. Likewise, in Galaxii, Quantum…
The Tech Side #11: Stardrives
Hello, friends and fans! Terran starships of all kinds, from loderunners to imperial warships, use a faster than light drive system colloquially referred to as the ‘stardrive’ or a ‘warp drive’ or even a ‘hyperdrive’. This article looks a little more closely at the technical details of this type of propulsion system. Stardrives are a…
A Fantastic Review Of ‘Blachart’!
Hi there, friends and fans! Lee Hall, a writer and reviewer from the UK left me another fantastic review – this time for “Blachart“, book one in Galaxii! ‘Blachart’ by Christina Engela – Enjoyable action-packed original space sci-fi You can read the review on his website! Available in eBook, paperback, hardcover, and audiobook formats! …
The Tech Side #10: Imperial Starships – The Benatar Class Cruisers
Hello again, friends and fans! As sci-fi lovers, we love the starships our favorite characters cruise the cosmos in, don’t we? Star Trek has its various incarnations of the Enterprise, Star Wars has the Millenium Falcon, Battlestar Galactica… well, has itself. Firefly has the Serenity. Buck Rogers had the Searcher, and The Expanse has the…