John M. Campbell grew up reading science fiction and loved imagining a future extrapolated from what is now known. Inspiration for his stories often comes from the strange realities of quantum physics and cosmology. Stories of his appear in Writers of the Future (Volume 37), Compelling Science Fiction (Issue 12), and in the Dragon Gems Fall 2023 anthology (Water Dragon Publishing). John lives and writes in Denver, Colorado.

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Enceladus is a moon of Saturn with an icy crust hiding a liquid ocean beneath that is likely conducive to life. We will someday send a probe there, most likely a tiny ice-drilling vehicle piloted by an Artificial Intelligence called NEMO, the Nuclear Enceladus Mission Operator. Jules Verne would have been delighted.