{"id":409,"date":"2019-09-19T12:53:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T16:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.budsparhawk.com\/?page_id=409"},"modified":"2019-09-30T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T19:59:30","slug":"2019-2021","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.budsparhawk.net\/?page_id=409","title":{"rendered":"2019 &#8211; 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>DOG TALES <\/strong>features a cynical trainer trying to make sense of a war he and his dogs are involved in surviving. He is assigned to help an alien force emulate the human experience with war dogs. <em>Appears in Amazing Stories &#8211; Fall 2019\/Special Edition, Sold May 2019, 6,000 words.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MULLIGAN <\/strong>describes a get-rich-quick scheme involving the search for an old artifact on the surface of the moon, a failed romance, and final deception. I owe many of the details to the assistance of Jack Clemmons who shepherded me to the final version.<br><em>Appears in\u00a0\u00a0Analog, May-June 2019, Sold November 2018, 5,000 words<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE INVITATION<\/strong> is an interpretation of Steven Hawking&#8217;s joke about sending an invitation to a party to any time-traveler who cared to attend.<br><em>Appears in\u00a0\u00a0Analog, March-April 2019, Sold February 2018, 1,200 words<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>THE FADING PAGES OF A SHORT STORY<\/strong>  arose when I a friend began suffering the effects of early-stage Alzheimer&#8217;s and wondering what the effect that affliction would have on an aging science fiction writer and his family.  <br><em>Appears in&nbsp;&nbsp;Analog, January-February 2019, Sold November 2017, 5,300 words<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SHATTERED DREAMS: THE SHARDIES WAR<\/strong> Humanity fights to survive against nearly unfathomable aliens, their technology and tactics. A small group of survivors fight to survive after the destruction of their colony while Earth&#8217;s military evolves to compromise their humanity so to conquer the aggressors. The novels follows the evolution of a marine, command, and scientists as they deal with ethics and morals of what they are doing.family.<br><em>Published by eSpec Books, LLC,, ISBN 978-1-942990-72-7 and (eBook) ISBN 978-1-942990-73-4, Released February 2019 , 285 pages<\/em> <br><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOG TALES features a cynical trainer trying to make sense of a war he and his dogs are involved in surviving. He is assigned to help an alien force emulate the human experience with war dogs. Appears in Amazing Stories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.budsparhawk.net\/?page_id=409\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budsparhawk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/409"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budsparhawk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budsparhawk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budsparhawk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.budsparhawk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.budsparhawk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426,"href":"https:\/\/www.budsparhawk.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/409\/revisions\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.budsparhawk.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}