My interest in science fiction with deep respect for science was piqued by my search for suitable novels for use in my First Year Seminar, Uses and Abuses of Science in Science Fiction. Novels with significant, mostly correct, science were few and far between. In my retirement from teaching, I have sought to add to the available canon of science-rich books. I endeavor to incorporate only phenomena and events in my novels that do not run afoul of experiments that have already been performed, extrapolating only into regimes where we do not yet have experimental data to guide us.

My books, all available on Amazon in kindle format and in paperback:

Waiting for Fireworks focusses on the merger of the Milky Way with Andromeda (and a lot more astronomy)

Big City Living concerns galaxy evolution in a giant cluster of galaxies

A Mind, Emerging details the efforts of university researchers to produce an AI to operate and to replicate a factory

The Astral Menace explores what would be necessary for a civilization to survive a nearby supernova

Partita tells the story of population exchanges among three populated moons in orbit about the Galactic Center, investigating the synergy between science fiction and music along the way

The Universe by Day and by Night paints a vivid portrait of the internal and professional life of an astronomer in the not-too-distant future

Reminiscences presents the life of a political prisoner in a series of flashbacks as he falls to his death in a black hole

Quartet uses the structure of Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 130 to tell the story of a desperate band of aliens fleeing a doomed world by riding the jet from the black hole at the center of the Galaxy

Galactic Explorer The never-named protagonist examines astronomical phenomena throughout the Milky Way up close with the help of some friends, without violating any laws of physics

Mount Aureum The inhabitants of planet Lipe face dire climate change as a result of a close passage by a white dwarf star