George Donnelly

... haters, naysayers and jealous trolls are coming for you.

Money is a promise that your sacrifice will pay off in the future, because we build civilization on a set of promises we make to each other.

Trust is breaking down in our societies — trust not just in big institutions but also in the natural good of the common man.

How much is a laugh worth to you?

Limits are a thing of the past.

Some stories are scientifically true.

Everything is ludicrous.

How easy it was for a Russian company to manipulate Americans through social media during the last US presidential election.

The future of work is cooking, cleaning and caring for the infirm.

While you endure the North Korea nuclear tests, the rip-out-your-throat battles for political hegemony and the desperate unknown of whether Katy Perry wants her ex back or not, it’s good to remember one thing.

Give us more positive news, goshdarnit, George!

We could soon have so much electricity from green power sources and other neat tricks that we’ll begin throwing it away like un-drunk bottled water or expired lettuce.

It’s a distributed future.

Look forward to a world of city-states where people on the political left and people on the political right live separately.

Looking for some short but high-quality entertainment over coffee or a snack?

Got a few moments to kill over coffee or a snack?

I woke up Tuesday morning to discover that my dystopian science fiction novella Death Shop is nominated for the 2016 eFestival of Words Best of the Independent eBook Awards.

From 1994-1997, I drove a Chicago cab.

We did it again!

It was 1997 and I rented a basement room in a ground floor apartment in Chicago’s still-questionable Wicker Park neighborhood (2300 block of West North Ave) with a friendly couple and a high-class drug addict.

Human Free is a post-apocalyptic science fiction novel by George Donnelly set in 22nd century South Africa after an ecologically-motivated man-made holocaust.

Announcing Pink Slip Prophet, a robot cyberpunk novella with a touch of comedy about Ian Blake and his struggle to reclaim his self-respect after losing his job to robots in 2034 Philadelphia.

For a limited time, Liberty.me brings you FREE the first libertarian science fiction anthology in a decade: Defiant, She Advanced: Legends of Future Resistance.

Pundits increasingly agree that we can expect a future where we simultaneously enjoy material abundance and suffer from a lack of employment opportunities.

Is war inevitable?

That science fiction anthology project I blogged about last June?

In Doubleplusunhate, a son goes off his meds, a dad discovers his love for his son and their lives go off the rails in an Orwellian future.

I wrote my first novel.

For a person that chooses to think positively, all roads are open.

Yesterday was a beautiful day here in Medellin.