Category Archives: Stories

Waiting on a Dead World: Science and Being Human

Posted on October 28, 2020 by Brian H. Gill

Instead of writing about Halloween, I’ll share a seasonally-appropriate story and talk about science, death being human: Waiting on a Dead World Inspiration and Stellar Evolution Still Seeking a Solar System Analog Metaphors and the Lives of Stars Sirius, Procyon … Continue reading →

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The Dream

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Brian H. Gill

He woke, heart racing, breathless, wet with sweat, in the starlit time before dawn. He shuddered when something touched his arm. It was his wife. “Again?” she asked, rolling her belly onto him. Soon she would bear his first child. … Continue reading →

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Firebase Earth

Posted on September 3, 2017 by Brian H. Gill

We are involved in a war which was raging when the current event, which we call the universe, began its existence. This war’s origins are in a place where space and time are not, and many of its soldiers are … Continue reading →

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