500 Words ISSUE 64: Readers Wanted Dear Friends, I have a problem with writing science fiction. I can’t write it fast enough to have it remain fiction. Too much of what I imagine is coming true right now, and there’s no way that I can type fast enough to keep up. If you want to get…

Some Things are Fake but this is Really Real Hello! It’s been a while since I’ve written you all. I’ve been head down in an edit pass for Resist, a novel that is the sequel to Surrender, the book that I published earlier this year. Resist continues the adventures of the…

The NYT ran an article about how Toyota is falling behind in getting electric cars on the road. The only model the company could manage to launch here in the US had to be recalled because [checks notes] it had a problem with the wheels. They could fall off. Self-sabotage…

Hello, I wanted to send out a final reminder that my newsletter, The Waveform, is folding up shop and ascending to newsletter heaven, or wherever newsletters go when they aren’t published any longer. This is the last edition you’ll receive from me. It’s the end, but if you look at…

Did you know I wrote a book about what can happen in the near future? The themes and topics in my novel are AI, corporate surveillance, and the climate crisis. A lot of what I wrote in the book is coming true faster than I thought possible. This is #1…

Free will and the right to choose are not dead, but they are elusive when buying or leasing a hybrid car in California. I’ve just emerged from a two-year journey to replace our 2016 Toyota Prius. In the beginning of my search, a chip shortage and supply chain problems made…

Hello Friends, Something went click in my mind last week and I decided that I didn’t need to write two completely different newsletters any more. The decision was an obvious one, if you go by the numbers. …

Hello Friends, I’m not a big fan of summer, but this year is different. I’m grateful for the fuzzy nature of summertime. …

Hello Friends, This Week on FutureX JV Hilliard is the author of the Warminster Saga fantasy novels. Here’s how he often introduces himself. “Born of steel, fire and black wind, J.V. Hilliard was raised as a highlander in the foothills of a once-great mountain chain on the confluence of the three mighty rivers that…