It has been my experience that really good science fiction is a thoughtful projection of present fact into future possibilities. A particular example would be Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Captain Nemo's submarine the Nautilus was powered by the the same energy as the Sun. Verne hints at nuclear power nearly twenty years before Curie discovered radioactivity! And forty years before Rutherford discovered the atomic nucleus and helped establish the structure of the atom! Even Simon Lake, preeminent naval architect attributed his inspiration for submarine design to having read Verne's book as boy.

My intention in writing science fiction is to follow a similar course. In fact, I would prefer the eipthet "futurist" and "futurism" as the genre for my works, though unfortunately those tags have already been spent by architecturalists and artists. In lieu of "galaxies far away" and "alien life forms" or just plain monsters, I try to imagine a realistic future for our Species, based on valid scientific principles, and expressing a truly possible extrapolation of human progress.

Please take a look at the preview of my book Amagon: The Book of Man, and tell me what you think. Have I set a worthwhile objective? More than just entertainment, do you find yourself imagining how things might really be one day? I don't provide any answers, but I hope the questions I raise invite your consideration as much as they excite my imagination! A. Umaz