Stories in Speculative Science

Welcome to my blog. I write science fiction and post my stories here. I hope you enjoy them. – Brent Smith

Many of the stories you will find here fall into what I call speculative science. That is, the story is based on real science. I take today’s science news and ask questions like, “Where is this leading us?”, “How will this affect society?” and “What could possibly go wrong?” The science is very important to these stories.

I have discovered that a cool science idea does not always translate into a good story. So I include here some articles that I call speculative science. They are just ideas that I get while reading science articles but couldn’t think of a way to explore them through a compelling story.

You will find other types of stories here. Not so hard sci fi but more fanciful. Ideas that I just couldn’t let go of without writing a story about them.

A third type of story might be called fan fiction. Here, I take classic science fiction tales and ask “What happened next?” For example, in HG Well’s ‘War of the Worlds’, Earth’s microbes won the initial battle. But as they say, a battle does not win the war. The legacy of this novel is that you have two civilizations that fear one another, that pose existential threats to one another. How would that play out?

Most of my story ideas come from reading science articles from various sources. I put a lot of background research into the science behind my stories. Some of that, I will post here so the interested reader can learn more about it and use the references I provide to dig into it themselves.