Thinking Upright by Dr. Cynthia "Cara" Polsley
Saturday, February 28, 2026
The Thirteenth Moon Update
Vol. 13, The Thirteenth Moon, joins the rest of the Ifscapes series in paperback and on Kindle! Thanks for reading!
Monday, February 23, 2026
Now Out in Paperback: Ifscapes 11 and 12
In paperback and in Kindle. Thanks for reading!
Vol. 11 - Hercules Under Contract
Vol. 12 - Decades Are Decades, Time Is Money
Monday, February 16, 2026
Ifscapes 8-10 Now in Paperback
Vol. 8, On the Cybernetic Circuit
Vol. 10, Something Earthlings Notice
Thanks for reading!
Friday, February 13, 2026
Announcing Ifscapes 13, The Thirteenth Moon!
The Ifscapes saga of senators, centurions, Artificial Intelligence, and realities recharted continues to unfold in the multiversal adventures of Volume 13, The Thirteenth Moon. Will the combined forces of Antonius 16 at last penetrate the inner sanctum of the Multiversal Authority, and what measures will the Chronosphere take to protect its ever-expansive world-systems? Can Cicero, Octavian, and Theocritus co-exist with Non-Enhantics and Artificial Intelligence? Does the Dread Country really exist, and what frightening mystery lies behind the moons of Tela?
In this volume of Ifscapes:
- follow in the footsteps of plasmatic space-farers
- cross temporal thresholds into distant Macedonian and Roman realms
- tunnel through time under the Chronocommute Portals
- enter the recesses of Futuro-Archaicized realms
- uncover secrets of vanished ships in non-terraformed terrorities
- witness intragalactic conspiracies of bots, androids, and legionnaires
Desperate legates’ military escapades, freelancing space explorers, advanced gravitic drives, and obsessed robots come together with Homer’s Odyssey, Darius and the Peloponnesian contingents, Cyrus’s Babylon, and worlds beyond in this collection of classic science fiction and meta-myth short stories.
Thursday, January 29, 2026
Ifscapes 6 and 7 Now in Paperback - and Coming Soon: Ifscapes 13!
Now Available in paperback:
Ifscapes 6, Perennials of ParadoxIn a multiverse filled with universes, there’s plenty of space and outer space for multiples, contingents, and alternates. Where does alter ego meet alternate ego? How many repeated extraterrestrial invasions does it take to stir Earth’s defenses to action? Can a man full of life really investigate his own murder? The sixth Ifscapes installment, Perennials of Paradox explores these questions over and over in this collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories.
Ifscapes 7, Spurious PassagesThe multiverse of the Ifscapes series continues to expand with Volume 7, Spurious Passages. What’s real and what’s fake in the range of many universes at once? Can the casting company find a proper Odyssean actor with suitable knowledge of the Bronze Age and Homer’s Cretan Lie? Is interplanetary warfare an empire’s endgame in the age of hover technology, upgraded centurions, and legions from the edge of a known universe? It might take bureaucrats in a conference call or soldiers on a military campaign to find out.
. . . and coming soon to the Ifscapes multiverse: Volume 13!
Thanks for reading!
Monday, December 29, 2025
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
"The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined." (Isaiah 9:2)
Monday, December 1, 2025
Now Available! Ifscapes 12: Decades Are Decades, Time Is Money
of adventure, enigma, dystopia, serious, satire, and more, leaving no time to waste and fewer realities unturned.