[Many links still have to be updated.] I am updating these pages again as of Dec 25, 2002 - 12/29/02 the first update was posting Russell Martin's Man-Kzin timeline version 2. Next projex are rescanning in the LunaEarth SF Art Gallery images, and collecting all the current moonbase, lunar colonization, and moon/luna related pages on the EarthWeb. The Moon In Science Fiction is a quick start on Lunar fiction. LunaWeb does not [yet] exist...

Welcome to the online homestation of Spike R. MacPhee, spiker#tiac.net[you'll have to change this and paste it to email me - an antispam precaution], a place of learning, commerce and diplomacy for humans and aliens alike... <*>

Here's a view of my HomeWorld(s), the
Luna/Earth system
[click on the picture for a full-screen 80k version]

... And here's how the human race journeyed to Luna
the first time - the Apollo 8 TransLunar Injection burn,
TLI One .
The humans' moonship Apollo 8, 185 kms above the Hawai'ian Islands,
lighting its third stage engine, bound for Luna,
Dec 21st, 1968, from a painting
I commissioned from Rick Sternbach in 1974.

Here's a 125% enlargement from the final version, showing the nightlights of the Hawai'ian Islands and the S-IVB third stage engine exhaust gases lit by the sun. Apollo 8 is the tiny point of light at the tip of the white thousand-mile long triangular exhaust cone.

• I freelance for DPResearch Co - doing game 3D modelling & rendering, game documentation, and game design.on the following DRPC games.
• I also work[ed] for One World Network. I created an SF website called SF LunaEarth Links - a linklist guide to Science Fiction authors, artists, stores, clubs, conventions, and publishers, as well as comic artists. I created and maintained free web pages and sites for creators hosted at OWN as well as doing paid webpages for other humans. [The OWN offer has expired along with OWN. Ps: Don't send me email asking how to recontact them - I don't know where OWN went either.]
• I do 3-D Titles for people's web pages. See the "LunaEarth" on this page and my samples directory.
• One of the sets of pages I created is my SF Art Gallery, which will have images from my personal collection of works by Rick Sternbach, Don Davis, Wendy & Richard Pini, Hannah Shapero, D. Cameron Calkins, Cortney Skinner, and George Richard. It also will have the John Schoenherr published SF art Checklist. [IMAGES NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL I RESCAN THEM]
• My next personal project is creating "The Way To Spike's house, Freehold", a homage to the films "Boy In a Rowboat" and "Powers of Ten", starting with the Hercules galactic supercluster, and zooming in.
• I'm a "hard science" sf fan and chart future histories or futories as they unfold in author's published works. Here are my contributions to the Known Space future history. "Futory" is pronounced "fewchory" and is a contraction of "future history".
  • Larry Niven's Known Space Man-Kzin Wars - Story listings for the Niven-edited Man-Kzin Wars shared-universe anthologies.
  • Larry Niven's Known Space Timeline - Timelines for Known Space and the Niven-edited Man-Kzin Wars shared-universe anthologies.
• Spike's biography - a short summary, still being added to, but I'm too busy living to write about living.
• The first installment of an occasional column called UnderAppreciRated SF Authors I do on underrated and underappreciated science-fiction authors. John M. Ford is the subject this time.
• A work in progress called SF Top Ten Lists. "How to make up your topten author/book list(s) when you can't narrow the choices down to fewer than fifty titles/writers even with a lasgun pointed at your brain casing."
• Human Space Population Totals -
• Population of EarthSpace
  • Flatlanders: 6 billion+
  • LEO (Low Earth Orbit): high - 13 (set in March 1995), varies from 3 to 12 at ISS Alpha.
  • GEO (Geosynch Earth Orbit): current - zero, high - never visited
• Population of Luna - current: 0, high: 2 on Luna surface, 3 in LunaSpace [1969-72]

My [unupdated in years] linklist guide to spacecraft status - The guide to currently operational spacecraft in the solar system, & other weblinks to human space flight, past, present, and future:

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