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.
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?
- 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: 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.
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.
