National Science Fiction Day: The Question That Changes Everything - What if?
National Science Fiction Day always brings me back to the question—the one that opens hidden doors in the imagination: What if?
National Science Fiction Day always brings me back to the question—the one that opens hidden doors in the imagination:
What if?
When I began writing Einstein’s Compass: A YA Time Traveler Adventure, I immersed myself in the work of one of the great masters of speculative storytelling, Ray Bradbury. Bradbury didn’t just write science fiction—he wrote possibility. His genius lived in the courage to ask what if… and then follow the answer wherever it dared to lead.
That question became the spark for my own journey.
Albert Einstein was born into a world of horse-drawn carriages and gas lamps. The light bulb was still a marvel. And yet—from this quiet boy emerged ideas so powerful they bent space, time, and our understanding of reality itself.
So I asked:
What if young Albert Einstein didn’t discover these ideas… but remembered them?
What if his soul carried knowledge from another lifetime—
from a lost civilization where science and spirit were not separate,
from the mystical island of Atlantis?
In Einstein’s Compass, Albert is not just a gifted child—he is a priest-scientist reborn, awakening slowly to memories of who he once was and what he once knew. His theories don’t arrive fully formed; they surface like fragments of a forgotten language, echoing across time.
And then there is the compass.
What if the compass his father placed in his small hands was not ordinary at all?
What if it carried a force of light beyond time, a supernatural guide designed to awaken dormant knowledge and lead him back to his purpose?
This is the heart of science fiction for me—not gadgets or equations, but wonder. The audacity to imagine that history, myth, and science are threads of the same tapestry.
On National Science Fiction Day, I celebrate the storytellers who dare to ask impossible questions—and the readers who are willing to explore the answers.
Because sometimes, the future isn’t invented.
Sometimes… it’s remembered. ✨
— Grace Allison Blair
Modern Mystic Media
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