Happy About My Book Reviews

My average review in Amazon is 4.75(out of 5) with 28 reviews My average on Goodreads is 4.17(out of 5) with 52 reviews https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8288708.R_W_Van_Sant 4.37 Overall and 80 reviews Although I haven’t gotten near as many reviews as my all-time favorite authors, according to Goodreads my reviews fall within the top range of theirs. Ranging … More Happy About My Book Reviews

No Harm No foul

Available Cyber Monday Without warning, bombs pour through a rip in the night sky, devastating the Earth. A strange constellation visible through the breach provides the only clue to the identity of the enemy. Survivors huddle in bunkers, waiting for the radiation to reach them and put an end to mankind’s history. In the middle … More No Harm No foul

Using images in social media to grab attention

Most social media posts garner more attention if they are accompanied by an eye-catching image. They are even better for our purposes if they are genre specific. These are some recent images that I photo-manipulated from public domain sources. They will be added to posts where I want to get a science fiction idea or … More Using images in social media to grab attention

Can capitalism survive interstellar space travel and colonization?

Thoughts by R.W. Van Sant As corporations are growing ever more prominent in the space industries, it becomes necessary to ask if capitalism that allowed them to amoas the wealth required to mount an interstellar mission, can capitalism itself survive the journey.  Are the laws, morees, and customs that allow capitalism to thrive resilient enough … More Can capitalism survive interstellar space travel and colonization?