After the Pleistocene came the Holocene, the current epoch … and when our species is as endangered as the Neanderthal, the Metacene has begun.

This website exists primarily to present my developing universe, set deep in the Metacene of the far future and begun with my first novel, Terra Incognita. Those who enjoy world-building know that, as fun as it is, so much of it cannot be told in a novel without paralyzing the story. To go beyond the novel and the novels to come, I offer this site. And I plan to go deep: the peoples, the places, the technology, the things that make a true setting.

As a passionate fan of science fiction I also enjoy reviewing and beta-reading the work of others, hopefully to mutual benefit between authors, and this site also serves to find new partners. Atop examination of plot consistency and believability of the characters and visualization of a scene, I feel that I can offer something rarer:

I am educated with degrees in nanotechnology (BASc) and electrical/computer engineering (MASc), having been fortunate to get in early at the University of Waterloo’s fledgling NE program back in 2007. My background should make me an effective wall for bouncing ideas off of for those who are developing hard (or harder) science fiction, and for those who want their work to be free of scientific/engineering errors. I respect magic in stories, and the deliberately unexplained, but those wishing for either a general idea or a passage to be made more plausible (or at least de-goofed) with a technical improvement are invited to contact me.

Thanks for visiting,

Mark