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At some point there must be an end!

Dear readers,

I already announced it recently: the fall of the universe is imminent. Humanity wants to delay the foreseeable death by turning the black hole in the center of the Milky Way into a quasar. A huge sphere is supposed to enclose the quasar and provide the energy humanity needs for the very last years. As with any major project, there are risks and side effects. And then there are a few people who are pursuing their very own purposes. Look forward to gigantic visions and special characters. The "Death of the Universe" is now available as e-book and paperback from this link: hard-sf.com/links/835400

I particularly enjoyed writing this novel because it is set so far in the future. In ten billion years humanity will have unlocked technical abilities that would seem like magic to us today. But at the same time, physics is still the final frontier: no one can travel faster than light nor turn the the laws of gravitation or quantum physics upside down. The protagonist is a hero against his will. He just wants to live a comfortable life. But his ex-girlfriend draws him into a conspiracy that is supposed to change nothing less than the fate of the universe.

Warm greetings from my nightly desk.

Sincerely yours
Brandon Q. Morris

What’s going on at the bottom of Enceladus’s oceans?
Along with Mars, Saturn’s moon, Titan, and Jupiter’s moon, Europa, another of Saturn’s moons, Enceladus, has long topped the list of locations to search for possible extraterrestrial life. The last probe to study it, Cassini, gave up the ghost in a fiery descent through Saturn’s atmosphere, but new discoveries are still being made in the data it transmitted back to Earth, as an article in Geophysical Research Letters shows. Continue reading →
The dramatic end of a starry couple

The death fight between two stars has been captured in pictures by astronomers with the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA). The gas cloud, which appears to consist of multiple rings, is the remains of the binary star system HD101584. “A nearby low-mass companion star was engulfed by the giant,” explains Hans Olofsson of the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, who is the lead author of a study on this object, now published in the journal, Astronomy & Astrophysics. Continue reading →

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The Enceladus Mission: Buy for $2.99
The Titan Probe: Buy for $3.99
The Io Encounter: Buy for $3.99
Return to Enceladus: Buy for $3.99
Ice Moon 1-4 Box Set: Buy for $9.99
The Hole: Buy for $3.99
Silent Sun: Buy for $3.99
The Rift: Buy for $3.99
Proxima Rising: Buy for $3.99
Proxima Dying: Buy for $3.99
Proxima Dreaming: Buy for $3.99
Mars Nation 1: Buy for $3.99
Mars Nation 2: Buy for $3.99
Mars Nation 3: Buy for $3.99
The Death of the Universe: Buy for $3.99
*recommended reading order: from top to bottom
Strange objects at the center of the Milky Way
Sometimes they behave like a cloud of gas and then they’ll start behaving again almost like an ordinary star: the so-called “G-objects,” which astronomers describe in an article in the scientific journal Nature, are hard to fit into any single category. Six of these objects have already been identified by researchers. They were all found in the direct vicinity of the center of our Milky Way – orbiting the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. Continue reading →
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