It always seems to come back to this.

Lately I've really been into the whole Space Opera thing. I may or may not have mentioned that I'm reading the Honor Harrington series by David Weber--good series, even if I have heard people complain about Honor's character being ungodly overpowered. I like browsing the archives over at Concept Ships, and I've even downloaded my favorites to form a screensaver slideshow. I've recently found a starship miniatures battle game called Full Thrust (which can be obtained online for free, by the way), and I'm even yearning to play Homeworld again.

Science fiction really is my first love when it comes to stories. It's faraway and fantastic, yet even with the darker stories there is a kind of hope that man can invent technologies which are considered impossible today. If I could have my choice, I would have wanted to be a spaceship pilot or time-traveling historian. {Sigh} I was born too soon.

But I'll live with the hand I was dealt, and in some ways it's almost better for someone with an intense imagination because there are so many possibilities (and impossible-yet-cool scenarios) to consider. Maybe by playing out these scenarios in gaming and writing stories I can satisfy that "itch" for the future, and in the process pass along that sense of wonder to someone else.