As they near their old star, they can see the dust kicked up by the Visitor. Today's reading is chapter thirteen of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. All the old familiar orbiting planets are casting shadows in the dust. They are traveling back there in one of their Balls - spheres of ice towed by giant light sails. rjb Link.

They send a message to the Visitor, then have to wait twenty minutes to find out if it recieved it. Today's reading is chapter twelve of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. Everyone on both comets was out of hibernation for this event. Nobody wanted to miss it. They figured out the machine's simple language and told it that it had to stop destroying worlds. The Visitor didn't listen. They didn't even know if it could, but they had to try. rjb Link.

Finished plundering their solar system, the Visitor is coming their way. Today's reading is chapter eleven of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. With Orange Comet watching through the window, Green Comet is preparing to send a message to the approaching Visitor. Will it listen? Let's find out. Here we go, then. rjb Link.

When the Visitor is finished with their world, it will certainly move on to the next star. Today's reading is chapter ten of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. After the statue ceremony, the eight go back down to finish their hibernation. Meanwhile. the two comets, Green and Orange, continue to diverge and get further apart. What will they do if the Visitor follows them? rjb Link.

The cleanup completed, the citizens of Green Comet prepare for a celebratory event. Today's reading is chapter nine of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. There is a big celebration going on in the Square. Elgin and Fran fly down to the center of it where the statues are. They're pleased with the new one representing Laika. rjb Link.

Thanks to Laika, they were able to figure it out and clean up the comet. Heroes deserve statues, right? Today's reading is chapter eight of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. The Five call up three more from the Hibernarium and the Eight are reunited. They get the ball rolling and recovery is underway. rjb Link.

They find out why Green Comet appears abandoned. Heroism often pairs with grief. This reading is chapter seven of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. The Five accept that they aren't going to find anyone to ask what happened. Then they discover why. I find this chapter to be emotional, so if you're prone, get a hanky.-) rjb Link.

It looks like the only place on Green Comet that has air and warmth is the room they woke up in. Today's reading is chapter six of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. The Five use a makeshift airlock separating their room from the rest of the comet. They know that they aren't going to learn anything staying there, so they set out into the darkness. They want to find out why the big hatch is open to the void. rjb Link.

When all five of them are up and about, they find signs of frantic activity. It looks like someone is trying to tell them something. Today's reading is chapter five of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. Reading the signs, they decide that they have to explore the apparently abandoned comet. You can help them find their answers by Liking this video. I recommend it. rjb Link.

This time when they come up out of hibernation, something is different. Something is wrong. There's nobody there. Today's reading is chapter four of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. They are far out in interstellar space. Far from any planetary system. Far from Orange Comet. And something is terribly wrong. Please Like and Subscribe if you want to help Elgin and his friends.

They make adjustments in the comet to take them across the great void with a smaller population. And they learn how to improve communications with Orange Comet, the only others of their species in the universe. Elgin and Frances expect to wake into a thriving community. They're surprised by what they find. Today's reading is chapter three of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. rjb Link.

They're up and about now, and feeling good. It looks like Fran's health problems might be solved, and there's plenty of work to do on the comet as it steadily works its way through the Oort Cloud. The friends sit on their balcony with tea and biscuits and think about how good it is to be there. Today's reading is chapter two of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. rjb Link.

With today's reading we begin the novel Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. Several thousand years after the end of the first book, Elgin and Frances and their friends are brought out of deep hibernation. In this brief first chapter we see them leaving their hibernation world and ascending toward their life on the comet. Just the introduction and a short chapter to ease us into it and to get reaquainted with the flavor of the trilogy.

Now that I have uploaded the last story from the Quantum Shorts anthology to YouTube, I have to move on to something new. I have Quantum Shorts Volume 2, but I haven't recorded it yet, so I'm going to upload Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. I'm planning on using the same format as I used for Quantum Shorts: a brief video introduction and the audio for each chapter. Please let me know what you think of this in the comments below this post. rjb

What if you had the power to destroy all the other multiverses, and decided to do so before they did? Today's reading is Acceptable Loss by Przemysław Zańko. Przemysław Zańko is a Polish speculative fiction writer who lives in Warsaw with his fiancée. He has published several short stories, won some awards and is busy writing novels. His hobbies include video games, “Doctor Who”, psychology, exploring strange corners of the Internet and swimming. The quantum concepts in Acceptable Loss are decoherence, information, many worlds, probability and the uncertainty principle. rjb Link.

What if the past and the future are quantum states, and the more you know about one, the less you can know about the other? Today's reading is Time Management by Przemysław Zańko. Przemysław Zańko is a Polish speculative fiction writer who lives in Warsaw with his fiancée. He has published several short stories, won some awards and is busy writing novels.

The uncertainty of two particles, two wavefunctions meeting on a subway train. We're down to the last few of these quantum shorts. But that's okay because I found a second volume of them. I'll have to record them, then I can upload them. Today's reading is Superpose by Yuen Xiang Hao. Yuen Xiang Hao teaches physics and astronomy at an independent school in Singapore, with an occasional sideline into creative writing, photography and other forms of irrationality. The quantum concepts in Superpose are superposition, the uncertainty principle and the wavefunction. rjb Link.

If you find yourself tunnelling through a Bose-Einstein condensate, you might end up visiting many worlds before your wavefunction collapses. Today's reading is Indistinguishable by Kenton K. Yee. Having dabbled in theoretical physics, law, and economics, Kenton K. Yee now ponders, invests, and writes from Northern California. He has placed poetry and short fiction in venues ranging from The Los Angeles Review to Uncle John's Bathroom Reader.

If you don't open the envelope, do its contents remain indeterminate? Today's reading is The Qubits of College Acceptance, by Lily Turaski. Lily Turaski graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021 with a degree in Materials Science Engineering and a minor in Chemistry. In addition to her chosen subjects, she enjoys researching electronic materials and riding horses. She won the 2015 and 2017 Quantum Shorts People’s Choice Awards. The quantum concepts in The Qubits of College Acceptance are the act of observation, the qubit, Schrodinger's cat and superposition. rjb Link.

If you could go back in time and give yourself some advice, would it be about love or money? Today's reading is A Future with Fortran, by Lily Turaski. Lily Turaski graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2021 with a degree in Materials Science Engineering and a minor in Chemistry. In addition to her chosen subjects, she enjoys researching electronic materials and riding horses.

What would you do if you were little and your grandmother, who's funeral you had just been to, came over to visit? Today's reading is Postmortem by Abel James Tilda. Abel James Tilda has degrees in Art History and Archaeology and lives in California. In his spare time, he enjoys playing music, walking up and down very big hills, and writing.

What if you didn't ride time like a train on tracks? What if you hopped about like a drop of water on a hot skillet? Today's reading is Haniza's Slipstream by Aaric Tan Xiang Yeow. Aaric Tan Xiang Yeow’s poems have appeared in Hawai’i Review, From Walden to Woodlands, The Missing Slate and elsewhere. He co-edited Red Pulse II, an anthology centred on a sunny island set in the sea.

Today's reading is The Relative Uncertainty of Reality by Daniel Swindlehurst. Daniel Swindlehurst used to have a proper, sensible job, but threw it all away to realise his childhood dream of being a scientist. He loves science fact and science fiction, and occasionally writes both. The quantum concepts in The Relative Uncertainty of Reality are computing, reality, time and the uncertainty principle. What if our reality is a simulated playground for people who want a harmless diversion, and most of us aren't real? rjb Link.

Today's reading is Quantum Man by Clifton Rumsey. Clifton Rumsey has a background spanning the sciences from physics to neuroscience, rendering him more wave than particle at this point. On the other hand, his position can be localised to a well-defined orbit around Austin, Texas. Unfortunately, this leaves his momentum wildly uncertain. While several of his multiverse selves have already won every major scientific, literary, entertainment, and humanitarian award available, in this universe it remains a work in progress.