One of my latest story ideas was inspired by recent comments from a member of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), suggesting that most intelligent aliens might be artificial life forms. That got me to thinking... From the engineering perspective, we organic life forms are rather arrestingly inefficient machines. So many redundant and useless systems, … Continue reading The Inheritors
Author: Michael T. Kuester
The Field
The season has ended. The dust has settled, the stands have emptied, and the bats and balls and well-worn caps put away until next year. Our national pastime is placed on a shelf, there to gather dust for another dark winter, until with the spring the boys of summer return, and we can hear the … Continue reading The Field
The Good
In all of this anger and vitriol and self-righteous proclamation, we have taken two candidates for our highest office and reduced them to cruel effigies: the very embodiment of all that we despise. These aren’t symbols, or demons, or boogeymen. These are people.
The Voice
In 1950, a new broadcaster with fiery red hair lent his voice to the Brooklyn Dodgers. For sixty-seven years, through broken color barriers and no-hitters and world series, through countless wins and losses, his voice became the voice of summer for generations of Dodgers fans.
Michael T. Kuester 