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"The red 8:25 tram crossed Crane House Lane and disappeared behind Villiers House, sealing my fate. I’d be late for work. I slowed to a walk and took another bite of toast. I found I didn’t care. It was that kind of day." – Henri Hardy, The Girl on the Kerb It took several months for Henri Hardy to discover just what type of day it really was. It was more than a day when his alarm clock failed to ring. It was more than an unusually mild day in early spring. It was a prelude to undreamed of changes in his life as an analytical engineer in the Ministry of Innovation. It was a prelude to travel, adventure, danger, and romance. Fifteen hundred years before that day, a devastating plague swept across the planets, moons, and space ships of Earth’s solar system spanning civilization. It ended space travel and forced the surviving population of the resource depleted Earth to live at a near 20thcentury level of technology, while endlessly recycling the remains of their once highly advanced

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As I am sure you can tell just looking at this page, the wellspring of my art had dried up. I can't seem to think of anything I want to paint -- never mind that there are billions of things to paint. I mostly painted from my imagination rather than life, and that wellspring of inspiration has dried up, I just don't feel like painting the same things over and over again. Indeed, I paint so rarely these days, I seem to have forgotten how to paint. Maybe it will come back, maybe not. Still, I have painted something like 2,000 paintings in my life, so that I don't feel that I've left too many painting unpainted. However, over the last six years, I have turned my creative efforts to painting with words. I now have self-published ten novels and two novellas, well over a million words in print. Like painting, I do so as an amateur -- for the love of it rather than for profit. I have long considered myself a science fiction fan, but I've come to realize that I have always been more of a fan