The Singularity
The Singularityan essay by Colin Campbell Last Sunday on X, Elon Musk spoke about the Singularity. The entirety of his post: “We are on the event horizon of the Singularity.” Us sci-fi geeks knew exactly what he meant: a reference to Vernor Vinge’s 1993 paper, “The Coming Technological Singularity.” The term […]
Woodward Strip Women
Woodward Strip WomenA memoir by Colin Campbell After I quit the copywriter job at the Sears advertising department, my girlfriend Rhonda and I lived in a nudist commune on an island in Lake Orion. She’d been a copywriter at Sears, too, a beautiful recent college graduate with an IQ of 162. She and […]
My First Writing Job
My First Writing Joba memoir by Colin Campbell In late August 1967, I was reduced to living in my broken-down Buick Special at the site of a farmhouse in rural Michigan that had burned down and was now a secluded Lover’s Lane. I was 20 years old. It was the summer of the […]
The Technology of Text
The Technology of Textan essay by Colin Campbell Back when history began, writing was a secret for a small inner circle of kings and priests and tax collectors. Then a sudden technological advance let ordinary people convert text into audible speech. It was 2,700 years ago, and Greece was just another grubby little […]
Free-Range Ferals
Free-Range Ferals by Colin Campbell It didn’t occur to me that my childhood life was unusual, not until later in life when I discovered that hardly anybody else’s mother was a motorcycle club mama.When she married one of the young gang members, she didn’t tell him the marriage would trigger the sale of the house […]
Biker Mama
Biker Mama a memoir by Colin Campbell Three weeks after I turned 14, my mother married a guy who was 21. Pete. She told me all about it. His parents were against it. She tried to dissuade him. “I could never marry a Catholic,” she told Pete when he proposed. They were parked at […]
Moire
Moire A short story (5,675 words) by Colin Campbell Jacob Voz met Moire when he delivered another iteration of a superconductive boat motor to the Marine Science Institute. He opened the door into the lab and saw a woman in a fluorescent orange bikini sitting at a workbench full of electronics equipment. She looked […]
Slingship Sam, Chapter 8: In The Cooler
Slingship Sam, Chapter 8: In the Cooler Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 They tased Sam again and half-carried him through the maze of re-purposed containers to a bare empty container, 8 feet wide, 8 feet high, 40 feet long. An empty […]
7. Entering the Dome
Slingship Sam, Chapter 7: Entering the dome Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Gravity inside the airlock slammed him to the floor. He was still paralyzed from the taser but still fully conscious. Must be corium plating in the floor. Felt like about […]
SlingSam 1.6
Slingship Sam chapter 6 Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 “Good morning, Sam, it’s time for you to get up. We will return to periapsis in thirty five minutes.” There’s no morning in space, just a clock setting. Astronauts in the old Space Station […]