Issue 1 , July 2026
Welcome to the first edition of my newsletter, an experiment in progress. My goal is to discuss topics of interest, let you know what I am working on, and hopefully entertain you in the process. I’ll share my thoughts and opinions, and I look forward to hearing yours in return. The focus will be on writing with occasional forays into the unknown and unknowable.
On Writing:
In my novels I make it a rule to speculate about what might be possible in the future based on what we know now. However, in the first book of the NanoMorphosis Saga series and in the second one on which I am working now, I had to make an exception to that rule when it came to space travel.
Everything scientists have learned to date proves that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. To get around that limitation in my fictional world, I had to rely on the old science fiction trope of hyperspace (an altered state of existence that allows a ship to take a shortcut through real space).
Without it, there would be no Star Trek, no Star Wars, no Lost in Space, and Mel Brooks would never have made us laugh with Space Balls. Sadly, there is no evidence that such an alternate reality exists other than in our imagination… at least not yet.
A Topic of Interest:
I haven’t seen the new movie Disclosure Day yet but it’s on my list. Any movie by Steven Spielberg is a must see, but I was surprised to hear his motivation for making it. The story centers around a deep government-led conspiracy to cover up the presence of extraterrestrials on Earth. Sounds exciting, but it’s fiction, not to be taken seriously. Right? Except Steven Spielberg says that it’s true. I was, to say the least, surprised. What hard evidence does he have, I wondered. He cited stories of what other people have reported about things they believe they have seen. So, no hard evidence then. He just believes in his heart that it’s real. As Neil DeGrass Tyson said recently, belief isn’t evidence.
A friend of mine suggested I look up the documentary by Bob Lazar in which he claims to be a physicist with an inside scoop on what went down in Area 51—alien spacecraft and alien bodies. A hands-on eyewitness to it all? Wow. So, of course, I checked him out and it seems he’s not who claims to be. The universities where he says he earned his degrees have no record of him and he has a criminal history. So, not exactly a reliable source. You can read all about him and his “documentary” here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Lazar
Okay, so what’s my point? It’s to say stay open to new information and be willing to be proven wrong but do your research. Is that new information verifiable? Or is it simply the product of someone’s imagination? Like a science fiction trope, these ideas are fun to think about and even tell stories about, but they’re not to be taken seriously until proven otherwise.
Keep reading. It’s the best brain food there is.
Thank you for sticking with me this far.
Sincerely,
Marla Anderson