October Newsletter (late)

Some Thoughts

I don’t know if you are keeping up with the AI news, but I am trying. They now think that they are on the correct path to general AI, all that’s needed is more compute power (more electrical power too). Of course, many are saying that the current approach (chatbots) is a dead end that won’t lead to general AI, but even if it is, we may be seeing some effects from it already. Walmart’s CEO says he thinks hiring will be flat for the next few years because chatbots are good enough now to fill jobs in customer service and supply chain management and maybe other white collar jobs. Their warehouses may see the AI effect next with the push for intelligent robots. Jobs, or lack thereof, may be big news soon.

I know that all this talk of AI made me change the story in my recently released MarsX Series to reflect the appearance of Artificial General Intelligence. The current book I’m writing, tentatively titled Zero Point, is also being affected. The possibilities that may become a reality in the next five years make it almost impossible to extrapolate comfortably, but still, I can try to write a good story, with interesting characters, and riff on the physics. I’m just integrating a lot more AI into my near future writings than I might have as recently as last year.

Books

Null Infinity (https://books2read.com/u/mlg0NP) was released September 20 and is available everywhere including a couple of excerpts on my website here.

A second novel in the series is releasing October 20 Null Infinity: Next Gen. As you might expect from the title, it is about the son of the protagonists in the first book. I think I posted the blurb last time but here it is just in case:

James Stimson was following in his parent’s footsteps, sort of. He didn’t quite have their aptitude for physics, so he went into management.

But he didn’t quite have an aptitude for management either. But Bridgette did, and as long as he was with her, he would do fine.

But with the world under attack by an unknown attacker and on the verge of collapse, and the answer to the attacks in another universe, they would have to become more than boss and employee, they would have to become partners and more.

You can check it out here: https://books2read.com/u/meOKvl?format=all.

Substack Library

I changed my thinking about what to post in my Substack library. I was going to post the Open Space short stories from my Future Chron Universe, but instead I decided to start at the beginning of that universe and post the complete From The Earth Series.

10 novellas and 1 short novel. I call them Books 1 to 11 in the From The Earth Series and also Books 1 to 11 in the Future Chron Universe. This matters because the next book I’m putting in the library is Book 12 of the Future Chron Universe, Mach’s Metric. This was my first novel and a favorite. I am editing it again and should have it in the library sometime in October. My Substack really is becoming a Science Fiction Library of my writings and you can read them for free if you wish.

Again, thanks for reading.