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Science Or Science Fiction? You Decide 5 Examples

I’ve got five science stories for you to read and I want you to determine if they are real science, or merely science fiction. Every day it becomes harder to tell!

Each time you get one right, let me know and get your choice of an ebook or an audiobook from me.

Science Or Science Fiction? Your First Test

Real teleportation – Now or in the future?

Read the article about quantum super-superposition and decide if this means we have teleportation, or if that is still science fiction.

Then tell me by commenting or contacting me. Tell me which of my books you’d like:

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My four books in the Life After Life Chronicles

Or my middle-school series, beginning with Secret Supers.

Secret Supers
Secret Supers cover

Next, Your Second Test

How many of these products are real robots you can buy and use and how many are hype? Is this more science fiction, or science fact? Let me know, and claim your free book.

The Middle of the Blog Test

Are magnetic bridges between galaxies just for Thor in the MCU? Is there really science behind this? Or is this just clickbait? Claim your prize here with your answer.

Science Or Science Fiction? Your Fourth Chance to Get Books

The previous article tells of a steampunk GPS from a hundred years ago that worked by your odometer in your car. Is this real or just an author’s imagination? Tell me.

Your Final Test Comes Now

Okay, holodecks have got to be science fiction. Right? Or wrong? Is there a real science, working holodeck here? This is your last chance to get your free books. Let me have it.

What You Will Win

We already covered my four books in my Life After Life Chronicles, but perhaps you’d like to check out the audio samples of the audiobooks.

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Link to Secret Supers audiobook

You can get samples for all my audiobooks from my page on Amazon.

But there’s more free stuff!

Get 36 free books from this SciFi promotion:

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Final stinger: this giveaway also includes Zombie Turkeys.

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Your 12 Best Links of 2019 From Andy Zach

Your 12 Best Links of 2019 from me, author Andy Zach are right here. What have you missed? Perhaps there’s a laugh or two for you or some amazing bit of technology you didn’t know about. The journey through time begins now!

January 2019 – My Favorite Video of 2019

This nostalgic memory from my childhood is much funnier now that I’m an adult.

How many of these famous cameo appearances can you identify? Identify all and win a book!

I can just hear some of you Millenials saying, “Ok, Boomer.” I am a Baby Boomer, so I can’t deny it.

February 2019 – A Great One Liner

Need I say the prequel to my book Paranormal Privateers is set in the Caribbean? Need I say this prequel is in my new book, Oops! Tales of the Zombie Turkey Apocalypse?

March 2019 – A Great Movie Trailer

Terry Pratchett is one of my inspirations. I re-read The Color of Magic, his first book in his Disc World series this year and it’s better than I remembered. This movie adaptation is great. Be sure to see it. Watch the trail above, if you doubt me.

Nine more links to go in Your 12 Best Links of 2019!

April 2019 – My Favorite ComicCon of 2019

Your 12 Best Links of 2019
Andy Zach at PeoriaCon. Click to read all about it.

At PeoriaCon I read the first page of Zombie Turkeys dozens of times while acting it out with my zombie turkey puppet. The Peoria Journal Star caught me in the act right there in Peoria, a mile from my home!

Click on the blog post to hear me on video!

May 2019 – The Fifth of Your 12 Best Links

Seriously, how can ‘spider butts’ not make the highlights list?

June 2019 – The Sixth of Your 12 Best Links

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Which Star Wars Movie is This?

I have to include this blog post, of four future science fiction story ideas. Which one do you like the best?

That’s all for now! I’ll post the other six items tomorrow.

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Science Chasing Fiction – Who Will Win?

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.

Science Chasing Fiction
My Undead Mother-in-law

Check out the metal skull caps or yarmulkes on the mamba, capuchin monkey, and rat in the following image:

Science Chasing Fiction
Secret Supers

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.