Author: lmontgomery

First, let me say Happy Independence Day!  My husband and I got to watch fireworks one of the neighbors engineered by a pond, and it was wonderful, taking me back to summer homeleaves in Minnesota where we watched everyone’s fireworks all around the lake. Also, I want to apologize for the lack of posting.  Both…

Happy new year!  I hope yours is off to a good start, and that 2022 looks up for everyone. I wanted to bring you up to date on my writing plans.  I just turned in a short story for a Baen terraforming anthology,  Under a Crimson Sun.  It’s a shared universe anthology about the first…

It’s that time of year again, when our thoughts turn to buying gifts for our loved ones with a sense of doom, panic, and utter terror.  Be not afraid.  I’m here to help. First, for the terraformer on your list, I cannot recommend Douglas Tallamy’s Bringing Nature Home strongly enough.  I’ve been gardening for a…

When flight on a boat jeopardizes all a family has worked for, can an errant son risk his life to save their future? The Luwenthals—second generation settlers on the lost planet Not What We Were Looking For—confront the destruction of their past life, and are forced to flee. As the boat containing the family’s prized…

Attorney John Reed is doing a fun series of podcasts about attorneys with unique legal careers.  I apparently qualified, and he interviewed me. It was great fun, and we even discussed science fiction. The link just went live:  You can also check out interviews with ocean lawyers, explorer lawyers, and comic book lawyers. by

Spoiler Alert:  First, if you haven’t read the first two books in the Martha’s Sons series, don’t read this post at all.  It contains spoilers. However, if you have read Simple Service and Long in the Land, and would like to get a free novelette about Peter Dawe’s arrival in Kentucky immediately after Long in…

I’m beyond thrilled to announce the publication of the fourth Martha’s Sons book, The Gear Engages.  I’ve never published a fourth book before, so I’ve got a little bit of that personal-best feeling.  Anyway, do give it a look.  And enjoy! It takes more than a single terraformer to start a new world. The human…

I’m in the final stages of formatting The Gear Engages, the fourth book in the Martha’s Sons series.  I can’t wait, however, to share the cover because Tom Edwards did another marvelous job.  Check it out! It takes more than a single terraformer to start a new world. The human colony on the lost world…

Jasper Bovenberg, writing for the Duke Law and Technology Review in his 2006 article Mining the Common Heritage of our DNA:  Lessons Learned from Grotius and Pardo, provides a nice summary of the Dutch legal scholar Grotius’ arguments about the freedom of the high seas.  We’ve all heard how this fellow Grotius was an early…

I have an article, Certain Legal Issues Associated with Private Space Activity, in this quarter’s Revue Diplomatique n°13, which is dedicated to “Les nouveaux défis juridiques et géopolitiques du secteur spatial,” that is, the new legal and geopolitical challenges of space.  Mine is in English. A copy of the publication may be found here.  The…