Robert G. Ferrell

My published novels (and 1 stage play) as of 20 May 2026.

If you can't counter an argument with logic and reason, smother it in supercilious sound bites.

I propose that, instead of 'Artificial' or 'Superior' Intelligence, it should be called 'Fabricated Intelligence.' Fabrication of facts and misleading interpretations seem to be its defining features. I would also suggest changing 'Generative' to 'Degenerative.'

My wife's latest commission: the crown of Byzantine Emperor Justinian, taken from a mosaic in the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna. etsy.com/shop/ItsaSeraphina

Time for me to plug my wife's Etsy shop once more. 539 5-star reviews aren't too shabby. etsy.com/shop/ItsaSeraphina

Now, that's what I call rain.

AI is a helluva drug.

Politics is a disease state in which organisms poke and prod one another into hysteria, whereupon all rational thought processes are abandoned and gibberish obtains.

Anyone else notice that Strange New Worlds is starting to resemble season one of The Orville?

For those of you keeping score at home, since June of 2025 I have received 494 obviously fraudulent email invitations and enquiries regarding my books. Maybe it's because I'm old and they expect me to be technologically naive. Except I spent my entire career chasing cybercrooks.

Mathematics provides a sturdy bridge between observation and comprehension.

We're under a heat advisory for the next few days. In south Texas that's just another way of saying it's August.

Long Live the King When both the King and Queen die within a short span, chaos and confusion preside over a mad scramble for succession.

The Coheretic When a squad of interstellar zealots sworn to eradicate all coheretics— primal time-manipulating entities —tracks one to 21st century Earth, he’s faced with the prospect of somehow countering them while avoiding human casualties and government entanglements.

Infinite Loop Due to a bizarre accident early in the universe’s history, humans are the only species in the galaxy who can pass intact through a dimensional gateway, which drives an alien race known as the Kzik-rym to capture humans to facilitate interdimensional travel.

Tangent In the course of conducting a penetration analysis under contract to the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Ash receives a mysterious encrypted transmission that proves to be an extensive dossier on a project, codenamed "Bellatrix."

Quantumorph Generations after their scientist ancestors escaped from an oppressive regime of ignorance and superstition by creating and fleeing to a pocket dimension, the quantumorph teenagers Pholuki and Torshuma become stranded far from home.

My screenplay based on Goblinopolis is now available in the Kindle store. amazon.com/dp/B0HDTMBSTC

High Eccentricity The Admiral Moffett is the largest vehicle ever to take flight, a floating city over a mile long and five hundred feet wide. Everything aboard this gargantuan craft is larger than life, including the eccentric passengers and crew.

Healer, Warrior, Lover Trezia, left as a child at a temple of healers and herbalists known as a Receivory, blossoms into a widely-respected healer— but there is much more to her than even she knows, a destiny beyond any other.