What's New

Updated status has been posted regarding Jim's new short story collection and the Mind Matters re-release.

JPH Talks Online

Two talks of mine from recent times are now available online in PDF format, complete with slides.

"Flexible Thinking and Cosmic Electricity", sponsored by the USAF Munitions Directorate, Eglin AFB, Florida, August 16, 2007.

"Cosmic Electricity". Revised talk on Electric Universe theory. PDF document along with Power Point file of high-resolution slides.

New Releases

Code of the Lifemaker and The Immortality Option (sequel)
Updated May 24, 2010
Phoenix Pick Books have reissued print and electronic editions of the above, including amazon Kindle versions.

Migration
Baen Books, May, 2010
The old world has destroyed itself, but it is already apparent that the emerging new cultures are heading to repeat the same mistakes all over again. Visionaries in an advanced region of the highly diversified world that is coming into being conceive and launch a generation ship in order to go out and found their own kind of society in another sar system. But human nature has a way of asserting itself wherever humans exist.

Inherit the Stars, Korean edition
Added: March 8, 2010
Woongjin Think Big Co. Ltd., Seoul, published July 2009.

The Settled Science
Added: December 26, 2009
Article published online at the Lew Rockwell Column. Being far more concentrated than any conventional source, nuclear energy represents the next logical step forward in the evolution of energy control and provides the only sensible way to power the 21^st century. The so-called alternatives do not.

Nuclear No-Contest
Added: September 19, 2009
Article published online at the Lew Rockwell Column. Being far more concentrated than any conventional source, nuclear energy represents the next logical step forward in the evolution of energy control and provides the only sensible way to power the 21st century. The so-called alternatives do not.

The Warmer, the Merrier
Added: November 22, 2008
Article online at the Lew Rockwell Column. Climate change is natural, human contributions are negligible, and even if they had measurable effects, the results would be beneficial.

Electricity Powers the Universe
Added: July 30, 2008
Article published online at the Lew Rockwell Column. The role of electricity as a far more powerful force than gravity in forming and shaping the cosmos.

"Escape"
Updated: March 27, 2008
Short story focusing on the dreaded Vinge/Kurzweil "Singularity". A convicted killer accepts a deal to be the first guinea-pig for a mind-downloading experiment. The researchers feel this is a reasonable deal for the compensation of a reprieve from Death Row. But the subject has other plans. Included in an anthology entitled Transhuman, compiled by Mark Van Name and Toni Weisskopf. Baen Books, February, 2008.

Moon Flower
Baen Books, April, 2008
Why have two contact missions from Earth to the newly discovered world Cyrene disintegrated, with the bulk of their personnel vanishing, while the few who remain make no sense? The investigator sent to find out finds himself pursuing a political fugitive who has gone there to join a scientist from one of the earlier missions, whom the Terran authorities managing the intended "development" of Cyrene very much want back. The answer involves the difference between living and nonliving things, John Cramer's "Transactional Interpretation" of Quantum Mechanics, and a peculiar alien flower.

Japanese Editions
Anguished Dawn Tokyo Sogensha, August, 2007

Pending:

The Genesis Machine, Spanish Edition
Added: November 1, 2008
Via Manga publishers. Further details and release date to follow.

Japanese Editions
Added September 16, 2007
The following releases have been scheduled by Tokyo Sogensha

Kicking the Sacred Cow Spring, 2008
Martian Knightlife Summer, 2008
Mind Matters Fall, 2007
Mission to Minerva, end 2008
The Legend That Was Earth, release date TBA

Voyage from Yesteryear in Spain
Added November 1, 2006
Agreement concluded for a Spanish language edition with Roca Editorial de Libros in Barcelona. Details to follow.

"Giants" Series Movie & TV Option
Updated January 25, 2009
Many readers have inquired over the years about the possibility of a movie adaptation for Inherit the Stars and the "Giants" series in general. We've now concluded a deal with MGM for movie and TV series rights for the full set. This doesn't guarantee that the option will be taken up and implemented--but you've got to start somewhere. Option renewed June 2009.

Current Projects

Mind Matters e-Edition
Updated-July 18,2010

The book on Artificial Intelligence that I produced some years ago appeared in the middle of takeover events at the publisher, with the result that the mass-market paperback that many were waiting for never appeared. A number of educational people interested in using it for class material have asked if we've considered offering an electronic version. Well, we have, and we're working on it currently. No estimate of a completion date yet, but naturally there will be updates as further news is forthcoming.

Production work is finished. The book will be available as a CD and as a download. Pricing and exact release date TBD.

Short-story collection
Updated-July 18,2010

Collection of short fiction to be published by Hadley Rille Books, KS. This should be a sizable volume of 100,000 words or so, comprising half new works and half selections from previously published. We are talking to the publisher and to Jim's agent. Release date not yet decided, but will be posted as soon as it's available.