My recent fiction and non-fiction writing:

Fiction:

You can see entries in two of my stories here. Anglic Union is future economic fiction. Earth Terror is a 1922 sf/Horror/alien invasion tale. The two appear in short segments going back a long ways in time.

The N3F publishes a bimonthly APA, N’APA. We are trying an experiment:

To be not at great length, one of our very long-time members suggested that we should open up fan fiction writing as an activity for members, this being one path for people to advance toward full writing efforts, in your own worlds, with your own characters, descriptions, and plots. You start, however, by writing in someone else’s world. As a start, I gave a section of fan fiction, though mine has been written so that the names and plot denouement are not the same.

Shepdon Fields I have been publishing it a piece at a time in N’APA.

I had an odd request from a fan. He asked: Has anyone ever written any Telzey Amberdon fan fiction? Telzey, of course is a character of the late James Schmitz, whose adventures appeared in Analog close to a half century ago. She was apparently a favorite of the readers. In any event, I was talked into writing something that none of you other than the original inquirer will ever see, namely in tribute to the author a piece of Telzey Amberdon fan fiction. It’s about 25,000 words, mostly in my style, not Schmitz’s. None of you will ever see it, because there are rights issues.

I tried to stay true to the original stories. The originals were reissued by Baen some years ago, the collection being edited by the late Eric Flint. A cursory comparison showed that some of his edits were more substantial than I would have expected.

I am now returning to my 1903 invasion of Earth, the Airlords having arrived in Tibet.

In non-fiction news, I just published in SCU Review an article “Dynamics of Unidentified Aerospace Phenomena”. In short, Powell’s recent book UFOs identifies a modest number of sightings in which one can determine, with some accuracy, the observed acceleration over a (short) period of time. From these, the required power per unit mass can be calculated…it’s a freshman physics problem. There are multiple reports with different energies, but 1 megawatt per kilogram appears representative. For something the size and mass of a modern fighter aircraft 10-50 gigawatts would be needed.

I also just sent back to the editors and referees a short note “Quantitative Interpretation of Simulated Polymer Mean-Square Displacements”. It’s a methods paper. The large paper applying the method is forthcoming.