Bleak or promising, our future is uncertain. How we play the game is paramount for our survival. Using fiction to address human nature, its failings, its hopes, is a way to have some insight into the game and why we choose paths of destruction.

Hope for future generations rests in making good decisions that will allow for prosperity without damaging the ecosystem on which we depend. Failure to consider the consequences before we surge ahead seems to be a human failing that is often promoted by greed rather than need.

Technologies alone will not be the answer that will insure our survival. Coming to terms with all the garbage thrust upon us by those with an agenda, which unfortunately includes most everyone, but especially governments, big business, and religions, is certainly something worth discussing in fiction since the consequences are not so dire as practicing them in the real life.

Fiction writers often skirt around the issues or ignore them all together. While some love to deal with real life problems like alcoholism, drugs, and quirky sexual preferences, few are frank about their beliefs, and few are willing to call a spade a spade when they see one. Nothing pleases me more than to read an author with guts, assuming the author isn’t just preaching from a cloistered pedestal where defending principles isn’t an issue.

So what are my goals in blogging about fiction? Do I really hope to influence other authors, especially want-a-be authors, to be brave? Changing the course of human development from a futurist’s perspective is a big thing for me. To do so with some collaboration would be great, and thus here I am, looking for collaborators, or at least fans that are willing to tell their friends.