Tag Archives: Sci-Fi

Why I Stopped Writing The Flying Squirrels

Posted on February 4, 2019 by fredhesser

So I haven’t published anything here in awhile, and the reason for that is not that I gave up writing, but rather just that I started working on a project I’d like to keep private for now. It took up … Continue reading →

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Elder of the Conclave (cont.)

Posted on September 4, 2018 by fredhesser

[I’m back! This is a continuation of this story. I doubt I’ll return to this little universe, at least for a long while, but I fell out of the habit of writing for awhile and wanted to get back into … Continue reading →

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Jane’s War (part 5)

Posted on April 24, 2018 by fredhesser

Jane (23.2.120.3) woke and stretched. She spent some time trying to work a kink out of her arm before remembering that particular arm wasn’t there anymore. She looked about for her arm. It was on the nightstand, and she had … Continue reading →

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Long ago

Posted on April 16, 2018 by fredhesser

Long ago, in the days when there were still fish in the oceans and cars on the roads, there lived a woman who was not afraid of governments destroying us. It had nearly happened, she knew that, but that was … Continue reading →

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On the Scientist Salarian

Posted on April 9, 2018 by fredhesser

Much like my thoughts on the USPS in The Walking Dead pilot, here’s a random thought about another piece of pop culture well past the point where it was probably relevant: So in Mass Effect 2 (the science fiction shooting-of-mans … Continue reading →

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Jane’s War (part 4)

Posted on February 19, 2018 by fredhesser

Connecting to the soldier’s implants digitally was almost trivial. The hard part was the actual manipulation of data. For obvious reasons, the implants were designed to resist this exact sort of tampering. Covering her tracks was time consuming as well. … Continue reading →

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The Fleet [Up the Spine]

Posted on February 7, 2018 by fredhesser

Getting from Hab to the Spine is easy in theory. Just keep going up until you get to the doors labeled “Warning: Low Gravity Zone.” Theories are treacherous things. The gravity starts getting weaker pretty much immediately once you’re out … Continue reading →

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Jane’s War (part 3)

Posted on January 1, 2018 by fredhesser

The extraction took seven hours. Much quicker than Jane had expected. Accessing military implants was no easy task. Any wrong move could set off the sensors meant to detect tampering and slag the implant, which usually made the extraction a … Continue reading →

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Living Outside the Kingdom

Posted on December 11, 2017 by fredhesser

Imagine, if you will, that you could build a human from scratch. Molecule by molecule, assembling each cell individually. Imagine if you could do this, and when the process was done, you had a viable human. A living breathing human … Continue reading →

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Jane’s War (part 2)

Posted on September 25, 2017 by fredhesser

Jane examined her tools. They were hers, not just whatever was in surplus. Somebody had gone up to the dormitories and taken her tools from her belongings. Jane had to remind herself that it was a breach of her privacy. … Continue reading →

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