D. Peter MacLeod

You can't get away from history. When I finished writing up the Seven Years' War and turned to science fiction, I thought I was leaving the past behind for a while. But Earth's recent and distant pasts provided the background for most of my stories. To share this background with interested readers, I've pulled together a few links and sources for each story, along with whatever commentary came to mind.

"Balkan Star," On Spec, vol. XII, no. 4, Winter, 2000 (February, 2001), pp. 70-82.
- A Canadian astronaut from the International Space Station finds himself on the run in Bosnia, dodging paramilitaries as he tries to save humanity from itself.
- additional text • Bosnian astronomy • Royal Canadian Dragoons • copies
"Starfleet Historians: History and Historians in Contemporary Science Fiction", address to the University of Ottawa History Students' Association Annual Gala, Chateau Laurier Hotel (29 April, 1994).
- Most of the historians I know appreciate the future as much as the past. So when the history students asked me to speak at their annual gala, I obliged with this assessment of our Starfleet colleagues.
- Historians and Science Fiction
"Terra Nullius." (seeking a market)
- The most ruthless alien invaders in science fiction history. "Who'd have thought that instead of starship fleets or Borg cubes, they'd send a lawyer?"
- legal concepts • Sargon
"Appropriate Technology/Appropriate Magic." (seeking a market)
- In A.D. 1207, high-tech aliens confront the magic-wielding lords of Cahokia (an Amerindian city, near the site of modern St. Louis).
- links • Sun Woman • sun worship • spellcasting

History & Science Fiction