Now Available: Ifscapes 11, Hercules Under Contract!

Announcing Ifscapes Vol. 11, Hercules Under Contract, now available on Amazon Kindle!

In Volume 11 of Ifscapes, the multiverse takes its cue from Herculean adventures featuring monsters, mystery, manipulation, and more. Will the shadowy Eurystheans succeed at annexing whole systems? Can the HERCULES Contractors survive their assignments against all odds? And what does the Loch Ness Monster have to do with long-forgotten empires?

In this volume of Ifscapes:

- join ambitious androids on an epic lion hunt

- watch seasoned gladiators battle in unheard-of arenas

- get special insight on the Museum’s Heran exhibits

- question intergalactic witnesses to a massive time heist

- dive into a deadly ocean’s murky depths

- compete with AI monsters and cybernetic organisms

Unrealities, parallel worlds, and alternative adventures meet the mythological exploits of Hercules (Greek Heracles, of course) and the intricacies of galactic conspiracies in this collection of classic science fiction and meta-myth short stories. In Ifscapes 11: Hercules Under Contract, adventures range from far beyond the small print, taking underdog heroes and unexpected explorers to whole new realms of time, space, and realities in the what-if multiverse.

Shown Approved Update

Thank you to the team at Wipf & Stock for the wonderful new flyer promoting Shown Approved!  The book is now available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and wherever books are sold.

The Sky Is Our Song Update

 Coming this February and Available for Pre-Order Now:

The Sky Is Our Song: The 'Phaenomena' of Aratus' (University of Chicago, 2025)

What a privilege to be a part of this project with Stanley Lombardo and Walter Michener!

Merry Christmas!

6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.

7 Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will perform this.

- Isaiah 9:6-7

Announcing Ifscapes, Vol. 10: Something Earthlings Notice!

Now available on Amazon: Something Earthlings Notice, Volume 10 in the Ifscapes series! 

Ifscapes celebrates its literary “decade” of possible worlds, alternate histories, fantastical what-ifs, and wondrous would-have-beens, spanning a kaleidoscopic multiverse of landscapes and timelines. What unexpected events unfold when ruthless porch pirates hit the plainland? Can Human Resources and Customer Service help locate a missing world in time to save the warranty? And who says pushing planets is like pushing pencils, anyway?

In this volume of Ifscapes:

- transform Earthling tragedy into Titanian triumph

- investigate an enigmatic bank robbery gone sideways

- issue receipts from an undiscovered future

- follow along with secret agents out to rescue a weary universe

- witness first and last contact from the ground up

- peruse the want ads for the perfect galaxy-trotting job

Dystopian battles behind the scenes, unseen extraterrestrial invasions from unseen realms, library stacks at the end of the world, everyday routines changing the fates of universes? Farmers, bookworms, schoolchildren. Product designers, soldiers, settlers, paraplegic astronauts. Something Earthlings Notice ranges from the outrageous to the ordinary to the biggest to the smallest, uncovering cosmic collisions of prosaic proportions. Mass extinction on a minute scale, advanced technology from antiquity, time travel at a standstill, and hints of empire in the most mundane. In Ifscapes, Volume 10: Something Earthlings Notice, impossible details become possible-world tales and cerebral unrealities spin into adventurous realities . . . if the people of Earth will take the time to notice.

Ifscapes, Vol. 1 Out in Paperback!

 Now Available in Paperback!

Ifscapes: Empires and Androids

A MULTIVERSE OF SHORT STORIES INSPIRED BY THE ANCIENT PAST AND FUTURE

- Chronocommuter trains for legionnaires, merchants, media moguls, and robots

- Earthling Chronicles of extrasolar space

- ancient Rome’s TV favorites, from “Three Hundred at Thermopylae” and “Psammetichus II Knows Best” to “A Day in the Life of Alaric”

- epic time-travel struggles between Palamedes and his nemesis Odysseus

- startling ET insights from bestselling researcher Ovid

. . . and more in these twelve reimaginings of Greece and Rome

To learn more Ifscapes: Empires and Androids, or to discover more of the expanding Ifscapes multiverse on Kindle and in paperback, visit the Ifscapes homepage on Amazon.

Coming December 19: Ifscapes, Volume 1 Comes to Paperback!

December 19 . . .*

- Every year: Six days until Christmas Day.

- 1686: Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe leaves his island after 28 years.

- 1732: Benjamin Franklin publishes his first Poor Richard’s Almanack.

- 1843: Charles Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol.

- 1958: President Dwight D. Eisenhower broadcasts the first radio message relayed from outer space.

- 1972: Manned lunar flight Apollo 17 returns to Earth from the moon.

- 2001: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring is released in theaters.

- 2024: Ifscapes comes to paperback as Volume 1, Ifscapes: Empires and Androids, makes its paperback debut!  

Available on Amazon beginning Dec. 19, 2024.  **Available on Kindle now.

*https://www.onthisday.com/events/december/19