This is the launch page for Fetching Asteroids, and it is seriously the cutest computer game. You can test out the beta version for free here: marylowd.com/games/

Fetching Asteroids is officially in Beta!! Meaning you can try out the first game set in the Otters In Space universe—fly around as Jordan the Labrador retriever, fetching asteroids! Seriously, this game is really fun, and we're gonna keep improving it. marylowd.com/games/

As a mother’s day present, my spouse and kid have been secretly prototyping a Leslie Keller figurine to go with my Dr. Waverly Keller. We still need gray PETG to make the skeleton match the armor, and the breastplate/shoulders need that characteristic three-color rainbow added.

I think every time I learn about this I forget it because I hate it so much: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfYb...

Here it is, in all its glorious wrongness! A true abomination of art — THE DOO-WOP OF STEPHEN CRANE. That’s right. I took Stephen Crane poems, converted them into doo-wop songs, and now you can listen to them in all their catchy irony. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Dr. Waverly Keller celebrates the release of the sixth Tri-Galactic Trek Chronicle — RED SETTER MEDIC — with a German chocolate cake.

My latest Tri-Galactic Trek Chronicle, RED SETTER MEDIC, is out today! And it already has three FIVE STAR reviews: “This is perfect for fans of Star Trek and lovers of animals.” “I enjoy this series … I like the humor.” “Interesting and engaging. A very unique read.”

Fewer hours now! Why, you could be reading this book before going to sleep tonight, if you stay up late enough!

Dogs in space!!!! 🐶🐶🐶 🚀🚀🚀 🚨This is not a drill! 🚨 📖 This is in fact a BOOK with STORIES in it. Which is entirely DIFFERENT from a DRILL. 📖

RED SETTER MEDIC comes out this weekend! In a matter of hours you could be reading two stories about Dr. Waverly Keller — “I, Hive” where she works to save an injured insect alien and “Gone, Not Forgotten” where she faces a mystery disappearing members of the crew!

If you love Geordi and Data episodes of Star Trek TNG, then this story is for you.

“Born Complete” is a song about Athena being fascinated by how mortals grow and change, lamenting that she missed out on that by having been born fully formed from Zeus’s brow. youtu.be/IYPZEHb6ZCA?...

There wasn’t originally going to be a song about Leda and the swan on this album, but after “Always the Tree,” it seemed called for thematically. Besides, I love the Zombies’ “Imagine the Swan,” so it’s nice mirroring that title with “Embrace the Swan.” youtu.be/mUxUsU6JWEc?...

Works out well when song lyrics are the main thing you want from them.

“Always the Tree” is about how sometimes we deal with something being done to us by believing we chose it all along. In fact, that’s kind of a theme in this album. That said, trees are cool. Being a tree does seem kind of awesome. youtu.be/4IpRhcl7sfw?...

“Don’t Call It Love” is Aphrodite’s song about how love isn’t soft and sweet. It’s destructive and reshapes everything around it. Also, it’s the catchiest song on the album. Seriously. youtu.be/ZzrVJHVQGQY?...

“I Can See It From Here” is the album’s Cassandra song, but it has both a sci-fi and California surfing kind of twist to it. youtu.be/I3A-EBQ5qok?...

“Different Every Time” is about Sisyphus becoming attached to the giant boulder. youtu.be/btinVocC-F8?...

“Look Back” is Eurydice telling Orpheus that love lives in the moment of looking back, and not to regret it, because it’s what makes them human, and not unearthly gods. youtu.be/z2eK9e7mkQg?...

“I Chose the Dark” is about how Artemis rejects the warmth, light, and family on Mount Olympus to hunt in the dark between stars. Because space opera aesthetic. youtu.be/Vw7hmKHPG3I?...

“Both My Homes are Real” is about Persephone, and the title pretty much captures the central concept. Sometimes you don’t want to choose between; you want to choose both. youtu.be/NGtIcAZIvEk?...

“Wings of Wax” is the Icarus song, but I gender-flipped everything, because why not. youtu.be/beNz7O1zbn8?...

“The Dissolve” is a Dionysian revelry with a space opera aesthetic. youtu.be/0ZfuGGtrdGE?...

“I Knew the Eagle” is a song inspired by Prometheus, taking the position that he’d have still stolen fire from the gods, even if he’d known the punishment it would lead him to endure. Sharing fire with everyone was worth enduring the eagle. youtu.be/jlEuvpEmbGM?...

“The Event Horizons on Mount Olympus” is a Greek mythology and space opera fusion album, executed in a musical style inspired by ‘80s weird synth pop and ‘60s California surf rock. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Okay, I just tried the dark chocolate sprinkles on buttered toast trick that I’ve heard is normal in other parts of the world and wow, that’s a super tasty snack.

I’ve got nine tracks with six more planned, and I think this gonna be a killer album… you know… for anyone who wants to experience the poetry of Stephen Crane as doo-wop. No one else? Just me? Eh, that’s fine. I’ll listen to it until I have it memorized and love every second.

Yes, the answer is yes — Stephen Crane poems convert beautifully into doo-wop songs. They’re so brilliantly wrong. I have to suspect that someone who would write poems like that would hate this use of those poems. But I love them. And that’s the beauty of the public domain.

You can now read my most recent Tri-Galactic Trek Chronicle, TECHNO-TABBY ENGINEER, online for free: deepskyanchor.com/techno-tabby... And the next one, RED SETTER MEDIC, is available for pre-order and will come out this Sunday (5/10/26)!

“An entire universe of star systems and populated planets had narrowed down to a bubble of water-retardant cloth with an orange cat and white fox inside, cuddled up in sleeping bags...” ——— Read “A Dubious Hypothesis” from TECHNO-TABBY ENGINEER: deepskyanchor.com/dubious-hypo...

“Hearing the tone of awe in the bird’s voice, Lt. LeGuin realized he might have an opportunity here.” ——— Read “Cuckoo’s Conundrum” from TECHNO-TABBY ENGINEER: deepskyanchor.com/cuckoos-conu...

The poetry of Stephen Crane is in the public domain... I wonder if it would make good doo-wop music... I'm gonna find out!

This is such a pretty end to the necromancer’s story… “I’ll put you back the way I found you Tucked back to sleep beneath the dirt You had one more song in you … And the graveyard fills up like a choir Settling after the song is done” youtu.be/lvsrISrKDRk?...

“Fight the Spider Queen” is the climactic battle song in Doo-Wop Necromancer. Look, all I can tell you is there just aren’t other albums like this anywhere. Complex, rich, soothing, catchy harmonies with full, epic fantasy stories threaded throughout. youtu.be/y2uei9MTnGA?...

“Look What I Made” is the flip side of “Bone Dragon Rising” on the paladin album. Except here, we see the beauty and triumph that the necromancer feels, instead of the disgust and horror from the paladin. Though the paladin does have a brief cameo. youtu.be/mx2uZBL8Sao?...

“Your Life is Mine Now” is basically a song about our necromancer casting drain life. I think that’s a spell necromancers had in Diablo 2… but realistically, I was picturing the beautiful green ribbon my demonologist warlock used to cast in Warcraft. youtu.be/GXLkppC8qfk?...

“Rise and Fight” is a glorious battle song — our necromancer faces off with a bevy of attacking spiders, throwing her risen skeletons at them over and over again. “Death isn’t a loss on this battlefield It’s a chance to start again” youtu.be/3irpCKNzAmM?...

“The Memory is in the Bones” is about how our necromancer is able to raise skeletal mages and they still remember the powers they had before dying and can still cast cool stuff like fireballs and ice bolts and whatnot. youtu.be/2njo9pnPE3A?...

“Curse of Weakness, Curse of Pain” turned out so damn catchy. And it was fascinating trying it out with different nonsense syllables for the chant in the background and seeing how that affected the whole sound of the song. Lyrics are part of the prompt. youtu.be/ELRH5OGmk5E?...

“Not on Strings” is the song where our Necromancer finally raises a skeleton, all the while convincing themself it’s a favor to the deceased and not a power trip. My favorite moment on the album is the incredible harmony on “a new companion for me.” youtu.be/qR2Fyhx8GR0?...

“I Called to the Bones” is a song about our necromancer being surprised by a werewolf and instinctively calling out to the graveyard bones to protect her. Yes, it’s a song that tries to make story sense of the Diablo 2 spell Bone Armor. You’re welcome. youtu.be/qbYVTIT4cNU?...

“Everyone Plays with Clay” is the first step our necromancer really takes down the road towards raising the dead — raising a clay golem and spending the whole time justifying it as not that weird. And the vocals are so pretty. youtu.be/FBRo8yakk9o?...

“Fighting Teeth with Teeth” took forever to get right, striking the right balance between creepy, funny, and catchy. And you will probably never hear another song with “Chomp-a-womp-a-doo-wop, a chomp-champ-chew” in it. I am soooo proud of that phrase. youtu.be/vuHGkvKJST0?...

“In the Garden of the Gone” sets the whole tone for the necromancer album. Quiet, ponderous, a little spooky. Lurking in a graveyard. This will be a great Halloween album. youtu.be/f53NVSdiFlk?...

Most of the Doo-Wop Fantasy albums are inspired by classes you can play in World of Warcraft. But Necromancer was too rich of a concept to pass up… So this album is kind of like imagining the Diablo 2 Necromancer living in World of Warcraft’s Duskwood. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Conjuring food and drink is one of the most pedestrian-seeming spells a mage has — it’s quiet, not flashy. But when taken seriously, that’s powerful magic, summoning sustenance from nothing. So, it’s where the album ends — feeding the whole party. youtu.be/SgiNY0jir-Y?...

“Portal” is the song where this whole fantasy world opens up around the mage and we get to see glimpses of all the faraway places and magical vistas. youtu.be/o4nTtseox3Q?...

“Mirror Spell” is where our mage gets to see herself from the outside and appreciate her own power, finally reconciling her fragility with her strength. It’s also just a cool spell, and it’s fun finding ways to turn game mechanics into emotional arcs. youtu.be/_tSpy_GXPP4?...

“Made of Glass” is the cornerstone truth of being a mage, and so it needed to be the cornerstone song to the album… and wow did this earn its spot. I know that basically no one else is listening to these things, but damn, I’m so happy with this one. youtu.be/Rmbczn4fZEg?...

It’s fun in these albums to have a companion for the hero, and for the mage, it absolutely had to be a flying book. I love the mage aesthetic with all the flying books. youtu.be/PMutZC1r1Dg?...