Living On Mars. IT Won't Be Like The Movies

Labor and wage laws are in effect taxes.

Importing products from overseas instead of locally is in effect Tax evasion.

Tariffs, if used correctly, puts that tax back on them.

This is the argument many Trump supporter make, and it is mostly correct.

But Trump isn’t doing that. The Tariffs he is talking about are all punitive. Almost all punitive taxes do lots of damage, and little good, no matter the type of tax.

About Living on Mars

More than a year ago, after reading yet one more unrealistic description concerning what living on a Mars colony would be like, I began a serial on Kindle Vella I called Donald of Mars. The reason, to show just what living there might realistically be like.

There is no super technology providing quick fixes. You have to bury everything under the sand after building it for structural and…

About Living on Mars

World-building: Kara

Spoiler alert. This contains some information that hasn’t come out on the Kindle Vella, or Ream versions of the Kara stories, though I have avoided disclosing major things. I began the first Kara story back in the late nineties. It was originally just titled Kara, though I changed it to Kara Discovered when I expanded my focus. It started out as a story merging two ideas in science fiction. What…

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Donald of Mars Chapter 3 Now Live

Not only will exercise be a critical factor in doing well in a Mars colony, but so will excellently eating habits. Donald avoids company meals and has his meals and a small family run eatery run by people that understand just how important good nutritious food is in the low g environment of Mars. Patron https://www.patreon.com/posts/donald-of-mars-3-77991644 Kindle Vella

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A Fall of Ashes: Now Read for Free

E-book cover, A fall of Ashes I am in the process of putting all of the chapters of my first book of my series, In Service to Evil, up for free on Patreon, Reamstories, and on Substack. The first two books cover her early life and the decisions and mistakes that lead her to becoming a servant of evil. Book One, A Fall of Ashes, covers how she became an apprentice instead of a slave, and her…

A Fall of Ashes: Now Read for Free

Can We Break the Universe? What does that imply?

The assumption that with enough that with high enough technology, it is possible to break the universe leads to many interesting conclusions. It almost eliminates the possibility of an older, more powerful race, except under certain circumstances. Quite simply if you can break the universe, there is no way to prevent people who would do so from figuring out how to. It will take time, but it will…

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Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone. With the New Year I have added a new project, Donald Of Mars to my on-going story Viking of Asgard I started last year. I have in the past done quite a few blogs on many of the challenges of colonizing mars on the site Eptle.WordPress.com. In this new project, I am having my protagonist Donald overcome and deal with many of these things as a way of making them clear to…

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A Fall of Ashes: Chapter IV, Demon Ring; now available

chapter IV My next installment of my Dark Fantasy story, A Fall of Ashes, is now up on both Kindle Vella and Patron. Just when Ashes is resigning herself to the fact that she is going to be a slave for the rest of her life, she finds a ring that changes everything. A fall of Ashes is a Dark Fantasy, deals violence, rape, and other objectionable things. It is a villain origin story set in the…

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