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…
New Release: TRANSPORT AND DELIVER is now live on Amazon!
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…
Sticky Lawyers Podcast
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
Free Martha’s Sons Story: RELIEF AFAR
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…
New Release: THE GEAR ENGAGES is Now Live on Amazon
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…
Cover Reveal for The Gear Engages. Also, Simple Service is on Sale This Week
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…
Space Law and Science Fiction: From Hugo Grotius’ Freedom of the Seas to Tom Godwin’s Cold Equations
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…
Revue Diplomatique n°13
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…
A Prize for Orbital Debris Remediation
This is complete paperback fiction. There is no such prize that I know of. I did make one up, write a novel about it, and put ITAR, CFIUS, and an unnamed regulatory body in it. (I was working for the FAA at the time and unsure whether we or the FCC would get jurisdiction over…
From Alien Invader to Home Defense
I’ve learned a lot in the past two months. Although what I’ve learned relates to terraforming alien worlds by turning them into Earth facsimiles, some is more relevant to this world and my garden. I’ve always enjoyed gardening, but never been any sort of master gardener. I watched with pleasure as the ligularia popped up…