THE MANY WORLDS of Guy Stewart
I Have Created MANY WORLDS: SF, F, Essays, Life Reflections...they all link here!
CREATING ALIEN ALIENS Part 42A: Human Space Families and What That Might Mean For First Contact
You know, it’s weird that there are SO FEW ALIEN MOVIES, NOVELS, or STORIES that include families. I'm going to do this post in two parts. FIRST, I want to take a QUICK look to see how writers have handled HUMAN families in outer space.
The stories usually allude to familial units by introducing kids, but that’s often as a matter of “they’re succeeding the Throne after the death of their “parent”…or the kid’s overthrowing the evil parent…or the parents spawn eighteen quadrillion children who invade Earth to eat as much of the life on it as they can. But, mostly, there are few families. Why is that? European and American pioneers, (knowingly or unknowingly) appropriating the "new world" - actually the land belonging to dozens of nations already there — for themselves, brought their children with them, often knowing that they faced death in half-a-dozen gruesome ways...so, who honestly believes people will leave their kids behind just to go into space? The majority of SF writers, apparently...
Link: https://faithandsciencefiction.blogspot.com/2025/07/creating-alien-aliens-part-42a-human.html
IDEAS ON TUESDAY 677
DIABETES GUY’S GOTTA TALK ABOUT…TYPE 2 DIABETES #33: Diabetes & Alzheimer’s Disease
Over the years (14 of them, actually…), I’ve written on breast cancer (my wife was diagnosed with it in 2011); Alzheimer’s (my dad was diagnosed in 2016) and finally Type 2 diabetes when I was diagnosed in October of 2022.
Well, my nightmare is coming true: “The relationship between diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has increasingly been recognized.” The paper, “Diabetes and Alzheimer’s Disease” (published in JOURNAL OF DIABETES, 2025 May 19, see Source at the link below) concludes: “There is, then, a strong connection between diabetes and AD
LINK: https://breastcancerreaper.blogspot.com/2025/07/guys-gotta-talk-abouttype-2-diabetes-33.html
THE MANY WORLDS OF GUY STEWARThttps://manyworldsofguy.blogspot.com/
WHAT AM I WORKING ON RIGHT NOW? "Fairy Tones" is a continuation of "Fairie Bones". Listen to the original here: https://www.castofwonders.org/2015/11/episode-181-fairy-bones-by-guy-stewart/ "Salvation Writ In Stainless Steel" will split it into four, 5000-word short stories. What about the souls of robots, AIs, or artificial Humans? Can they sin? Confess? Repent. Be saved?
JAX LUNAR LUMBER: A SHOCKING CHANGE OF DIRECTION!
Felix Jax, youngest member of the Jax Family Youth Coalition and it’s undisputed leadership. “A solution to test pilots AI, robotic, and Human with suicidal depression.” LINK: https://faithandsciencefiction.blogspot.com/2025/07/jax-lunar-lumber-chapter-12-shocking.html
IDEAS ON TUESDAY 676 F Trope: dark lord: Ardian tapped on his tablet-computer and said, “You have to read this!” He held it out to her.
Noemi grunted, hunched over her own t-comp. She said, “Doar stai un minut!”
Ardian’s eyes grew wide, “Ich denke nicht. Do you think speaking in English would be all right?”
LINK: https://faithandsciencefiction.blogspot.com/2025/07/ideas-on-tuesdays-676.html
DIABETES GUY’S GOTTA TALK ABOUT…TYPE 2 DIABETES #32: Taking Ozempic…after LOTS OF RESISTANCE… I WASN’T comfortable with talking about diabetes. My wife is Type 2, as are several friends of ours. Type 1 caused the death of my Best Man a year later. I’ve ranted against Ozempic pretty much ever since it first appeared. I WANTED to take the easy way out! But, I also wanted to maintain my sense of self… LINK: https://breastcancerreaper.blogspot.com/
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My FIRST POST EVER on my new blog.
Why a new website?
This blog/website will link to all the various "places" I've written -- FICTION of various kinds: Science Fiction, Children's Fiction,
I also have a fondness for Personal Essays. My first was focused on my journey as the husband of a wife diagnosed with Breast Cancer; then as the son of a father diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease; and finally as a retiree diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. All of them are informed by my 40+ year career as a science teacher and concluding with finally exploring how much I can write when that's all I focus my free time on...
Hence, the MANY WORLDS...
On Sundays, I typically post a sort of "synopsis" of my weekly endeavors. I won't ALWAYS use this as a post here, but absolutely WILL at times. For now, it will look pretty much like the rest of my Blogspot posts...but that will be changing with time.
I also invite you -- for the FIRST TIME -- to sign up for a newsletter I'll be developing in the future. To send a request, just copy the note below, paste it and send it to my email
gstewart75@hotmail.com with something like "Guy: Please add me to your newsletter list! You can send the newsletter, THE MANY WORLDS OF GUY STEWART: (your email address)"
So, without further ado, my first MANY WORLDS post!
You might ask...WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON RIGHT NOW? "Fairy Tones" is a continuation of a story I had in Cast of Wonders a decade ago called "Fairie Bones" (read it here if you want to. (The new story returns a few years later, with the main character in college, his grandmother gone, a young cousin his temporary ward...and a deadly problem for the fairies: they're dying...) Listen to or read the original here: https://www.castofwonders.org/2015/11/episode-181-fairy-bones-by-guy-stewart/ (The new story, "Fairy Tones", will be submitted in September.) I've stopped working on "Salvation Writ In Stainless Steel" because the story is trying to cover TOO MUCH STUFF. The idea of artificial intelligence, robots, and androids remaining "things" has been explored for years. But what about their spirits? Do they have them? If their minds are based on how OURS operate (and we are descendants of fallen Adam and Eve)...would they need to be saved, too? COULD they? I'm going to write new stories exploring this question in the form of PARABLES.
SLICE OF PIE: Will Robots, AIs, and Artificial Humans Believe?
These days, I write whenever I want to – or when I’m not busy exploring the world with my wife or kids or grandkids. I write and read constantly. Then I discovered that I was writing longer and longer pieces. My new focus is to write shorter; and to write HUMOR. On purpose. Maybe I can still irritate people while being funny. It works pretty well for John Scalzi! We’ll see what happens.
I just finished reading THE THREE POUND ENIGMA: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries by Shannon Moffett (©2006).
Granted, it’s technically nineteen, but most likely 20 years out of date. Most of the book is a fascinating examination of what science and scientists had discovered about the brain up to that point. The front jacket copy reads, “Where do our big ideas come from? How do dreams affect our waking life? Why do some of us always remember faces but never remember names? Meet the people charting the world inside our head...”
It was great to read, I’d have loved a look at it while I was working on my masters degree in School Counseling! But, as a retired science teacher and counselor, my mind and efforts have now turned to writing as much as I can. That writing also includes searching for fodder for my next story. Rest assured I found plenty of ideas.
Link: https://faithandsciencefiction.blogspot.com/2025/07/slice-of-pie-will-robots-ais-and.html
IDEAS ON TUESDAY 675
Octavia Butler said, “SF doesn’t really mean anything at all, except that if you use science, you should use it correctly, and if you use your imagination to extend it beyond what we already know, you should do that intelligently.”
SF Trope: complex planetary ecology
Current Event (2012): “large-scale carbon capture and sequestration projects”
( http://cleantechnica.com/2014/01/20/gore-rejects-geoengineering-climate-change-panacea/
), http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/jul/18/iron-sea-carbon
(There is currently VERY little discussion regarding this concept...)
Logan Andrist frowned and said, “What do you mean they’re going to dump iron into the lake?”
Nkokoyanga Pomodimo, far from her land-locked home in the Central African Republic held tight to the railing of the re-purposed iron ore freighter – a laker – as it dipped down into the swells of Lake Superior.
Page: https://faithandsciencefiction.blogspot.com/2025/07/ideas-on-tuesdays-675.html
DIABETES RESEARCH RIGHT NOW! #30: Can the BRAIN ITSELF Be Targeted To Treat Type 2 Diabetes???
From the first moment I discovered I had been diagnosed with DIABETES, I joined a HUGE “club” that has been rapidly expanding since it stopped being a death sentence in the early 20th Century. Currently, there are about HALF A BILLION PEOPLE who have Type 2 Diabetes. For the past 3500 years – dating back to Ancient Egypt – people have suffered from diabetes. Well, I’m one of them now… Not one to shut up for any known reason, I added a section to this blog…
Every month, I’ll be highlighting Diabetes research that is going on RIGHT NOW! Harvested from different websites, journals and podcasts, I’ll translate them into understandable English and share them with you. Today: “For several years, researchers have known that hyperactivity of a subset of neurons located in the hypothalamus, called AgRP neurons, is common in mice with diabetes.”
So…weirdly enough, I just finished a book called THE THREE POUND ENIGMA: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock Its Mysteries by Shannon Moffett (©2006). Granted, it’s technically nineteen (most likely 20) years out of date. Most of the book is a fascinating examination of what science and scientists had discovered about the brain up to that point.
But it didn’t talk about how playing with the BRAIN might have an effect on controlling Type 2 diabetes!
