Category: Science

Another Privately-Operated Submarine Lost

Another Privately-Operated Submarine Lost; Six are Dead

I’ve written six novels about exploring the ocean deeps.  The oceans are more accessible than outer space, but in many ways they are more dangerous. The pressure at depth is inexorable, and submarines have to be engineered to withstand this — with an immense built-in safety margin.  Any flooding or damage to the hull can result in a rapid loss of buoyancy, and if the ocean floor is too far below, then implosion can result.

Kelp Can be Used to Create Plastic

Kelp Can be Used to Create Plastic

A story that provides further foundation to my series, The Rise of Oceania.

Interview with Timothy S. Johnston in Interstellar Flight Magazine

Interview with Timothy S. Johnston in Interstellar Flight Magazine

The article is informative, interesting, and provides a great deal of insight into the series, the rationale, and the reasoning behind the world and story.

Diagrams, Schematics, Maps, and Tables in A BLANKET OF STEEL

Diagrams, Schematics, Maps, and Tables in A Blanket of Steel

Why do I add so many visuals to my thrillers?

On Global Warming and Climate Change: Fallacy or Fact?

On Global Warming and Climate Change: Fallacy or Fact?

The title is a little misleading. After all, very few scientists deny that it’s happening. In the past decade we’ve experienced the ten warmest years since 1850.  I want to be 100% clear about the purpose of this article right from the outset:  Human beings have accelerated climate change.  The rate of temperature increase is astonishing and utterly unique in the paleoclimatology record.  There’s no doubt at all.  Even from a passive observer’s opinion, the winters are vastly warmer than several decades ago.  Things have indeed changed, and my point is that you don’t have to be a scientist to see that it’s happening/happened.

Amazing Stories Reviews A BLANKET OF STEEL: “It’s Prescient.”

Amazing Stories Reviews A Blanket of Steel:  “It’s prescient.”

This is a stellar review.  I am still processing it.  The reviewer, R. Graeme Cameron, has so far read and reviewed three of my books:

THE SAVAGE DEEPS is a 2022 Kindle Book Awards Semi-Finalist

THE SAVAGE DEEPS is a 2022 Kindle Book Awards Semi-Finalist

This book previously won the 2020 CYGNUS Award in the Climate Fiction Category. 

Pre-Order The Shadow of War by TSJ!

Pre-Order The Shadow of War by TSJ!

The Shadow of War is now for sale online.  My newest technological thriller is due for release in the Fall, from Fitzhenry & Whiteside.  Read more below …