David Nadas

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  • The Chrono-Christmas Glitch

    The neon pulse of New Tokyo felt colder than usual as the artificial snow—a byproduct of the city’s atmospheric scrubbers—drifted down like almond slivers onto the metal walkways. The city, a colossal sprawl of chrome and carbon, hummed with the ceaseless rhythm of a million lives under perpetual twilight. Each hab-unit, a tiny cell in…

  • “Crime Is Down” – Or Have We Just Closed our Beaches?

    As a writer of Science Fiction, I share the blame with my fellow writers for stories written about a dystopian future, but the idea of writing science fiction is fueled by what we feel the future holds. We keep hearing that crime statistics are down–much better than they were in the 1950s, that kids are…

  • Hollywood’s Storytelling Crisis: A Call to Action

    Once upon a time, the world looked to you for dreams. Your stories lit up the dark. You taught us to hope, to fight, to love bigger than we ever thought we could. You drew us into the theaters–Heck! My first real job, at fifteen, was that of being an usher at the Algonquin Theater…

  • How Sci-Fi Novels Predicted the Future

    Ask anyone if Time Travel exists and the vast majority of those asked will quickly tell you… No! Because they are looking to correct the past and the only direction that time travel exists in, is the future. So what is my proof? Well, I asked ChatGPT to summarize some of the earliest Sci-Fi novels…

  • The Great Deception

    As a writer of science fiction, I draw inspiration from the silent mentors of my past: George Orwell, Ayn Rand, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others. Like all writers of fiction, I hope to pass on something I have said that others will use as a compass for themselves. Reading George Orwell’s 1984 for the…