Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

SO NOW IF I OPT NOT TO MASK I HAVE “LOWER LEVELS OF EMPATHY” AND “HIGHER LEVELS OF CALLOUSNESS”?  BUT IF I WEAR A MASK WHILE LOOTING AND BURNING BUSINESSES I’M DISPLAYING A SOCIAL CONSCIENCE?  Antisocial traits linked to lower coronavirus safety adherence, researchers say.

Or maybe I understand the science enough to know masks are kabuki. And since I have asthma, it’s highly harmful (to me) kabuki.

But never mind that, the sociopaths in power will try to shame me into sheep-like obedience.

I’VE BEEN IN THIS SITUATION BEFORE. IT WAS ANOTHER COUNTRY, I WAS YOUNGER. EVEN THEN IT’S PROBABLY A MIRACLE I’M ALIVE.  THIS HAPPENS TO ME? I’M NOT GOING TO LIFT ALOFT THE FIST THAT’S THE SYMBOL OF THE REGIMES THAT KILLED AT LEAST 100 MILLION HUMAN BEINGS. YES, THE FIST MEANS COMMUNISM. EVEN IF THEY TELL YOU IT’S BECAUSE THEY CARE SO MUCH ABOUT BLACK LIVES. TO ME IT IS THE EQUIVALENT OF BEING TOLD TO GIVE A NAZI SALUTE.  SO THIS HAPPENS TO ME, I DIE WITH BOTH MIDDLE FINGERS ALOFT:  DC BLM Mob Harasses White Diners, Demanding They Raise Fists In Solidarity.

Telling you the fist is black power or concern for black lives, is like telling you the nazi salute is because you want to pet kittens. I will not sully myself with either gesture.

EDITED BY LES JOHNSON AND ROBERT HAMPSON, AND CONTAINING STORIES BY ME AND MY HUSBAND:  Stellaris: People of the Stars.

NEW STORIES AND ESSAYS FROM TOP AUTHORS AND EXPERT SCIENTISTS. Explorations of how interstellar travel may affect humanity by best-selling authors and scientists.

The stars will change us.

STELLARIS: PEOPLE OF THE STARS is a collection of original science fiction stories and nonfiction essays speculating about humanity’s far-term expansion into the universe beyond the limits of our solar system—with an emphasis on the changes humans will undergo as a species as we make this happen. Is interstellar travel so far beyond our current imaginings that it will take a fundamental transformation of humanity in order to make it possible? And, if so, will we remain Homo sapiens or become a new and unique species—Homo stellaris (the People of the Stars)?

Herein are original science fiction stories by award-winning authors such as Kevin J. Anderson, William Ledbetter, Todd McCaffrey and Sarah A. Hoyt, supplemented by accessible nonfiction essays describing the science behind the fiction from people who should know—Sir Martin Rees (Astronomer Royal of the United Kingdom), Mark Shelhamer (Chief Scientist for the NASA’s Human Research Program), and more.

This collection of original stories and essays was inspired by a gathering of scientists, science fiction authors, and futurists at a series of annual meetings held by the Tennessee Valley Interstellar Workshop. Let their speculations, imaginations and boundless sense of what’s possible take your own journey beyond the edge of the solar system in STELLARIS: PEOPLE OF THE STARS!