An interocitor is a device featured on the 1955 classic SciFi film This Island Earth. The creation of folks from the planet Metaluna, this device allows audio and visual communications over great distances. It has additional capabilities, such as having a laser system for offensive and defensive attacks. The interocitor was used as a test…
Looks like Hybrid Singularity will be out some time in late 2017 to early 2018. Waiting on the contract to arrive via snail mail. This will be my second cyberpunk novel. The first is tied with GunMetal Games as part of their Interface Zero: 2.0 RPG game for Pathfinder and Savage Worlds. I certainly hope…
You may be wondering if this is the stuff of cyberpunk novels or just plain old science fiction, but it’s actually real-life. Scientists are making headway with quantum teleportation. Does that mean you’ll be able to teleport from Sydney to Paris for a light dinner, and then maybe a jaunt to the International Space Station…
I have no idea who translated this, but give them a medal. Quite a bit of the anime imported from Japan attempts to show some humor, but normally something gets lost in the translation. Most jokes fall flat or get one smirk out of the audience. This is not one of those animes. Every episode…
Mention the word “anime” and you’ll get two responses… Akira and Ghost in the Shell. The vast majority of anime fans have seen these two, and with the addition of Princess Mononoke, they are the standards to which the rest of the anime field is compared. Ghost in the Shell (GitS) is…
It’s almost the start of a new fiscal year (for businesses and government work), so it’s time to discuss a bit of pre-Fall cleaning for your computer. For perspective, my old “day job” involved working in an Information Technology department for a large corporation with 13,000 users, a field I’ve been working in since I started…
Anyone can go to Google and search for a particular piece of information. Sometimes they luck out and find what they were originally looking for, while other folks end up getting sidetracked by a website full of cute fluffy kittens. As authors, we tend to have limited resources, particularly time. Using efficient search techniques, our…
A friend of mine, born and raised in Scotland, once complained about how the Scots are portrayed in books. “It’s not the characters, for the most part. It’s the way authors try to write with a brogue. To me, it makes Scotland look like a bunch of uneducated people mumbling under…
Here’s how the general NET communications system works in the future world of Hybrid Singularity. Top-level Backbone: GNET The top-level, underlying Internet communication backbone that connects all systems together is called Galactic Network, run by a shadowy conglomerate made up of corporate sponsors. All inter-solar communications are routed through GNET. As the top-level backbone, this…
Kinoshita The character Kinoshita appears in the opening of the first book of the Hybrid Singularity series. Name: Kinoshita Masamuni Gender: Male Height: 173cm Weight: 84kg Occupation: Assassin, Mercenary Nationality: Japanese, NeoTokyo prefecture Cyberization/Prosthetics: NetTAP wetware/net computer interface GenOptix eyes, left and right Toyoka left arm with body frame enhancements Military: Japanese National Defense Force,…