Most of my Feel Good/Cozy Science Fiction short stories and novels are set in the Stellar Economic Community (SEC). This website was originally started as a way for me to keep track of information about the SEC, my characters, and other things in my stories and novels so that I wouldn't write, for example that Bidido had a patch over his right eye in one place and over his left eye in another. The same info could be of interest to anyone reading my fiction. Information specific to stories in progress will probably not be found in these pages. Also found below are links to the short stories that I've had published, to summaries of my novels, and to other things of interest to me.

When I first started creating these pages I tried to include cross references to items described more fully elsewhere. However, this has gotten out of hand, and I've stopped doing this. To find information about something specific, check the Site Index. (Be forewarned that some entries may contain "spoilers.")

Most of what I write is science fiction. There are several "rough spots" in what writers generally publish as science fiction. I may or may not try to avoid or correct these rough spots in my stories. Some of these rough spots include:

1) Different alien races eat the same food. This is especially noticeable when humans have crash landed on or are colonizing some alien planet and they eat the native plants and animals. Organisms are biochemically "designed" to eat foods which evolved on their native planet. But this same thing happens when several alien species are working together and eat at the same "restaurant."

2) There is a single planet-wide culture and language on an alien planet, unlike Earth which has hundreds.

3) Everybody spends "credits." This problem was pointed out to me when I attended a writer's workshop several years ago. See my section on the "uni," which is the unit that people of the Stellar Economic Community use in my stories, for an explanation.

When you read, if words seem to move around, blur, or form strange patterns, or if reading gives you headaches or eyestrain, click here.

The characters in the Stellar Economic Community title above were downloaded from The Animation Factory. Nice folks.

Buttons at this site were created by Button Generator. NOTE: The link to Button Generator now goes to a "This domain is available for sale" message. So they seem to have gone out of business.

Page Updated: 08 May 2025
Page Created: 16 January 2012

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