# Golf and Out­gassing: The Sto­ry That Start­ed It All When I sat down to write the very first tale set in what would become the Fab­u­lae Lunae uni­verse, I knew I want­ed to begin with some­thing per­son­al to the his­to­ry of lunar exploration—something every space enthu­si­ast has smiled about at least once. Alan Shepard’s […]

Dis­cus­sionsEach Week, Torn hosts a dis­cus­sion on his dis­cord chan­nel: Torn MacAlester Sci­ence Fic­tion.  Join the dis­cus­sion and learn what he thinks about pri­or to writ­ing his sci­ence fic­tion sto­ries.   Week of Jul 2, 2023 [2nd Jul at 1 PM EDT (6 PM GMT), 5th Jul 9 PM EDT (6th 2AM GMT)] Artemis 1 […] […]

Fer­mi Para­dox The Great Fil­ter The Fer­mi Para­dox cre­ates an inter­est­ing dilem­ma from sci­ence.  What is the fil­ter that seems to be pre­vent­ing con­clu­sive evi­dence of alien civ­i­liza­tions? We have sev­er­al options: Plan­ets capa­ble of sup­port­ing life:  That might be a decep­tive descrip­tion.  What is a plan­et capa­ble of sup­port­ing life. The first indi­ca­tion is […]

Mor­gan’s Road by Torn MacAlester Mor­gan’s Road is a short sto­ry that I wrote a few years ago.  It is not the first thing I ever wrote, but it is the first sto­ry that I decid­ed to share with a broad­er audi­ence. It is a fic­tion­al­ized account of the dis­cov­ery of water ice on the […]