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!

STUFF LIKE THIS MAKES ME ILL:   Jimmy Fallon’s Re-Education Wraps in Time for Election Day.

NOT A BAD BLOG TO KEEP TRACK OF:  COVID19 mini-update, August 24, 2020: clinical study on convalescent plasma; UK media push for reopening schools.

DEUS AVERTAT!  Biden Will Shut Down The Country If “The Scientists” Tell Him To Do It.

DON’T GET EXCITED. IT’S ACTUALLY ABOUT ASSCLOWNS WHO UNDERSTAND HISTORY LESS THAN SOME SPECIES OF MOLD DO COSPLAYING REVOLUTION:  Portland Rioters Wheel Guillotine Through Suburbs, Execute American Flag.

The response appropriate to these people’s mental and emotional age is to take them over one’s knee for a good paddling, then sending them to bed without their iphone. And if their boomer parents didn’t that, instead of calling them stunningbrave, this would never have happened.

THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER:  A Moment of Opportunity For Education.

THE LAMENTATIONS OF THOSE WHO IDENTIFY AS PEOPLE WHO HAVE CERVIXES, AGAIN?  Rose Garden Gets Melania Makeover, Twitter Howls.

TRUMP. IS THERE ANYTHING HE CAN’T DO?  Masculinity Is Dead Because Of Trump, Again.

WELL, IF I WERE A LAW-ABIDING RESIDENT OF NYC, I’D BE PRACTICING MY AXE THROWING:  Cuomo Bans Dancing And Comedy But Not Axe Throwing.

PART OF ME HOPES THIS IS AN HOAX. BUT I’M AFRAID IT ISN’T:   Marxist propaganda that the domestic terrorists left at the home’s surrounding SE Precinct in Portland Oregon. 

I WILL BE A PRESENTER AT THE VIRTUAL:  Prometheus Awards’ 40th Anniversary Ceremony.

AND I’LL ALSO BE IN A PANEL WITH F. PAUL WILSON. (Me, squee? You can’t say I squeed. Mature writers don’t fangirl.  …. okay, fine. I totally fangirled there for a moment.)

OR WE COULD, YOU KNOW, JUST GET OFF THIS PLANET AND SETTLE ON OTHERS.  NOTE: NOT ONE OF HIS “WAYS” IS IMMEDIATELY IMPLEMENTABLE; THEY ALL REQUIRE NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT MAY NOT BE ACHIEVABLE. OTHER THAN THAT THEY’RE TERRIFIC:  MIT professor unveils 5 ways to save ourselves from total human extinction.

OTOH I suppose us settling other worlds would mean escaping our would-be Earth-encompassing would be Masters…. and of course no leftist can be having with that.

GOOD LORD. DON’T THESE PEOPLE READ SCIENCE FICTION? OR DO THEY ONLY READ THE NEW, “SOCIAL CRITIQUE” SCIENCE FICTION (ALSO KNOWN AS NAVEL GAZING?):  Millions of genetically modified mosquitoes to be released in Florida.

AND HEAR THE LAMENTATIONS OF THEIR WOMEN PEOPLE WHO HAVE CERVIXES:  Emotional breakdowns after Trump ads appear on the Washington Post’s website.

THE GANG THAT COULDN’T PHOTOSHOP STRAIGHT:  Underwhelming: Kamala Harris virtual cheering section included duplicates.

MAYOR LIGHTBRAIN IS SPECIAL:  Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Blames Mississippi for Chicago Gun Violence.

LET’S STOP WITH THE MAOIST STRUGGLE SESSIONS. JUST STOP IT:  Energy Secretary Launches Review, Asks For Investigation After ‘White Privilege’ Training Draws Criticism.

WELL, IF THEY FRAUD HIM OVER THE FINISH LINE, HIS LIFE WILL BE THAT SHORT:  Joe Biden Delivers His Own Eulogy.

A TALE OF TWO SYSTEMS:  The challenge of Marxism: Part I.

The challenge of Marxism: Part II.

THE LEFT BURNS ITS OWN NESTS:  Dying Democratic Cities.

WHAT IS IN YOUR 2020 BINGO CARD:  The Death Spasms of Marxism Are Making Its Adherents Crazier by the Day.

FORTUNATELY IN THE GREAT SPASM OF INSANITY OF 2020, THE LEFT IS DESTROYING EVERY INDUSTRY AND INSTITUTION IT CONTROLS. MAYBE SOMETHING BETTER COMES AFTER: Conformity to a Lie.

COMING AT YOU AT SPEED IF BIDEN AND HIS HANDLERS WIN THIS FALL:   California Blackouts a Warning for States Ramping Up Green Power.

GOOD INTENTIONS LIKE THIS ARE WHAT PUTS SPECIES AT RISK:   Editorial: Elephant and lion heads belong on those animals, not on some trophy hunter’s wall.

DOESN’T THE LEFT EVER UNDERSTAND UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES?  Nice going, Tofu Breath.

IS THIS THE YEAR OF THE JACKPOT?  Scientists say ‘anomaly’ in Earth’s magnetic field is splitting.