J. Craig Wheeler

Fiction, non-fiction, essays, stories, and commentary

Cosmic Catastrophes: Exploding Stars, Black Holes, and Mapping the Universe

A tour of the dynamic Universe from supernovae to black holes, worm holes, and string theory aimed at students and the general public.

Selected Works

non-fiction

The Path to Singularity: How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity

COMING IN NOVEMBER 2024 FROM PROMETHEUS PRESS!

Foreword by Neil deGrasse Tyson

An incisive summary of where we are, how we got here, and where we are going in a rapidly-evolving technological world from the broad perspective of an astrophysicist.

Cosmic Catastrophes: Exploding Stars, Black Holes, and Mapping the Universe

A tour of our dynamic Universe from supernovae to black holes, worm holes, and the multi-verse aimed at students and the general public.

Supernova Explosions

A compendium of contemporary knowledge of how stars explode, what they look like, and the physics that drives them. Winner of the Chambliss Medal for astrophysical writing of the American Astronomical Society

fiction

The Krone Experiment

Star wars erupt as the U.S. and Russia invoke space-based weapons in a deadly face-off in orbit. The true danger dwarfs that posed by the international crisis.

Krone Ascending

Krone Ascending depicts the effort to manage the wrenching catastrophes released in the wake of The Krone Experiment.

ESSAY

Why Astronomy?

A short meditation on why humans engage in astronomy.

Eniwetok

Witnessing the first hydrogen bomb.

Memory of a Dream (August 28, 2003)

A view from the periphery of the March on Washington

The Great Pumpkin Hack of 1962

The inside story of a famous MIT hack.

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