Science Chasing Fiction – Who Will Win? That’s my question for you. Of course, you’ll say, ‘Science fiction will always be ahead of science.” I thought that too–before I read these articles. It seems science is getting closer and closer to fiction.
The first article:
How cool is this? We now have a new treatment for Alzheimer’s based upon electromagnets in a skull cap.
But wait–I just wrote a book with electronic skull caps for animals and people in My Undead Mother-in-law, published in 2017.
Check out the metal skull caps or yarmulkes on the mamba, capuchin monkey, and rat in the following image:
But wait–there’s more! I also have electromagnetic impulses causing brain changes in Secret Supers, my most recent novel.
I just published this in March 2019. But the next fact is creepier: in the book I’m currently writing, Oops: Tales from the Turkey Apocalypse, I have a short story called ‘Assisted Living’ where I reverse Alzheimer’s. I plan to publish it by Thanksgiving, but will it be science fact and not science fiction?
In any event, I’ll send you a free copy of the short story, just because you asked me!
Science Chasing Fiction – Your Second Example
Now take a gander at the next science article.
This news story covers artificial intelligence and how hard it is to analyze a successful neural network. Why does it work the way it does? No one knows. But I have AI in Paranormal Privateers, published in 2018. Read this following excerpt, quoting a sentient AI:
“We are not carbon-based life, silly human. We currently dwell as permanent Bose-Einstein electronic flows inside the quantum memories and processors in this miner. “
Paranormal Privateers, chapter 13, Area 52
In this chapter, I have humanity run into an advanced alien AI based on neural networks in quantum computers.
The Final Usurpation of Fiction
In this case, science doesn’t anticipate my hamster story, ‘A Hamster’s Tale’. It’s Weird Al Yankovic who does that!
How does one write a science fiction tale about a hamster? Read and find out! You can read it here. The last chapter icon shows Dancer, the hamster hero of the story.
