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Interstellar Navigation, or Getting Where You Want To Go and Back Again (In One Piece) [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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Science fiction stories often deal with travel to other stars. But travel isn't just a matter of being able to cover a distance, it's also about being able to find your way to where you want to go. Navigating to other stars will pose some serious challenges, but by using our experience with earth-based navigation methods it should prove difficult but doable. 2000
Words: 4655 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
Category: Technology/Science
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Odysseus [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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Fixing a faster-than-light drive is simple compared to figuring out right and wrong, especially when there's a lot of money involved and especially in space, where ancient tragedies can live on in unexpected ways. 1999
Words: 5791 - Reading Time: 16-23 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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One Small Spin [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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Sometimes succeeding is just a matter of how you define success. As when NASA runs into problems with automated probes sent to Mars. (This story was written before the actual loss of a number of robotic Mars missions.) 1997
Words: 3716 - Reading Time: 10-14 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Section Seven [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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How do you keep a collection of planets tied together by common elements when humans are constantly changing and improvising? It might be done by brute force if an empire could muster the necessary resources, but there's more subtle and less obvious ways of keeping everybody in line. 2003
Words: 4558 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Small Moments in Time [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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A time-traveler in 1918 encounters another man from a different future. As the traveler discovers the man's role in history, he's faced with a terrible dilemma. 2004 Nebula Award(R) Preliminary Ballot Nominee
Words: 6658 - Reading Time: 19-26 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Where Does a Circle Begin? [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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he meeting of the first ironclad warships in the American Civil War has been described as "the greatest technological coincidence in the history of warfare." What if it wasn't a coincidence? 1999
Words: 7022 - Reading Time: 20-28 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Working on Borrowed Time [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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As some time travelers try to change the past, others can try to stop them, their struggles unrecognized by the times and places where they operate. All we know is what history might tell us. 2005
Words: 10314 - Reading Time: 29-41 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Agent Problems [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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Dishonest agents have been known to play fast and loose with their writers' earnings. But messing with the wrong writer can be a big mistake. 1997
Words: 2689 - Reading Time: 7-10 min.
Category: Fantasy
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Standards of Success [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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It's important to learn from experience. As long as you don't learn the wrong lessons. And NASA says it's learned a lot from robotic missions to Mars. 2005
Words: 1344 - Reading Time: 3-5 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Project Horizon and LUNEX--Cold War Plans for Military Bases on the Moon [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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US military bases on the Moon aren't just the stuff of science fiction. Around 1960, the US Air Force and the US Army both produced plans for establishing bases on the Moon, plans which if followed would have drastically changed the history of human space exploration. This article describes the plans, the reasons behind them, and why they were never implemented. 2002
Words: 5522 - Reading Time: 15-22 min.
Category: Technology/Science
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Crow's Feat [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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A worn-out writer meets up with an eccentric scientist who offers the writer a chance to go back in time and find proof that Shakespeare didn't write the works attributed to him. But once he actually meets Shakespeare, the writer learns that there's a lot more to the situation than what he'd thought he knew. 2000
Words: 3885 - Reading Time: 11-15 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Down the Rabbit Hole [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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Experimental faster-than-light spacecraft aren't coming back from their test flights, despite the use of the most highly-trained pilots available. Desperate for answers, NASA turns to another kind of astronaut with another kind of training. 2001
Words: 4647 - Reading Time: 13-18 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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Generation Gap [MultiFormat]
by John G. Hemry
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Successfully completing a generations-long trip to another star required strict adherence to rules and procedures. But what happens once the ship reaches its destination and the people aboard, part of a static society trained to follow predictable patterns, encounter new situations? 2002
Words: 7675 - Reading Time: 21-30 min.
Category: Science Fiction
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