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		<p>I have long avoided writing “Christian Fiction” due to the distaste of trying to preach my own beliefs that way.&nbsp; Yet, I can’t avoid my own upbringing and the beliefs I live with.&nbsp; In a story as large as the Project Saga, there are a couple of things that came out. In the U’tanse Branch,&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://henrymelton.net/2/2026/01/16/project-saga-themes-religeon/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Project Saga Themes: Religion</span></a></p>
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		<p>Tractor beams are a staple of science fiction space adventures, but I never liked them.&nbsp; They were all too random, with no real science behind them.&nbsp; They were just a lazy prop—a bit of fantasy thrown in to help with the story. A long time ago, I invented the tractor beam technology I would use.&nbsp;&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://henrymelton.net/2/2026/01/16/project-saga-themes-tractor-pressor-beams/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Project Saga Themes: Tractor/Pressor Beams</span></a></p>
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		<p>In Star Time, the male lead character was Abe, a technological wizard with his own design center creating electronic gadgets and such.&nbsp; One of his side projects was a mesh computer running the “Hodgepodge” software.&nbsp; Abe had discovered a research project at another research center in Austin, Texas that was creating a “Common Sense” database.&nbsp;&hellip; <a class="more-link" href="https://henrymelton.net/2/2026/01/16/project-saga-themes-artificial-intelligence/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Project Saga Themes: Artificial Intelligence</span></a></p>
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