Our monthly Q&A transforms from a video into a podcast episode. We answer your questions about Vision Pro disappointments, Apple product anticipation, favorite stories from the dead-tree era, and much more.
Apple is getting along great with everyone. Thanks for asking. At least it keeps shipping new products.
$potify
The EU hit Apple with a $2 billion fine this week for “anti-competitive behavior” resulting from a complaint by Spotify. Apple responded by responding.
Despite that success, and the App Store’s role in making it possible, Spotify pays Apple nothing.
This might have been a time to use your inside voice.
Apple’s pissy missive — a pissive, if you will — goes on for over 1,500 words about how the App Store saved humanity (I skimmed it) and Spotify is just a greedy bunch of jerks, all of it just to say that Apple will be appealing the fine.
I’d say this could have been an email but it turns out Apple’s not great at those, either.
Epic fail
Ugh. We’re still talking about Epic. Look, no one is more upset about this than I am.
Worst rollercoaster ride ever.
Just when Epic thought it was safe to get back in the pool…
Do you get your $99 back if Apple terminates your developer account?
Long story short, Phil Schiller emailed Tim Sweeney and asked him to promise Epic would follow the App Store rules in the EU. Tim Sweeney responded, yes, SIGH, we will follow the rules, PHIL. Then Apple said, eh, we still don’t trust you. Banned.
Now, you can argue that Epic’s initial violation of the App Store rules indicates it’s not trustworthy and should never be in the App Store, but if you’re going to do that, why bother emailing Sweeney? Just to be jerks about it?
Sure, that’s something I would do, but I’m not a trillion dollar company.
In response, the EU said it was going to investigate Apple’s termination of Epic’s account and, hey, look at that…
Apple’s response may seem confusing based on how the events here on Earth unfolded, but remember that it’s working on a whole bunch of AI stuff so, clearly, it’s trying it out in the PR department first.
Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies. As a result, Epic Sweden AB has been permitted to re-sign the developer agreement and accepted into the Apple Developer Program.
Well. I’m sure that’s that and I can just take long drinks of water all of next week without any worrying about spit-taking all over my MacBook when something else happens. Like, say, first thing Monday morning.
MacBook AIr
Let’s put all that unpleasantness behind us. Do you like new things? Well, these might be your month.
This week Apple released new MacBook Airs with M3 processors. Spoiler alert: they’re faster. Yeah, you heard that right. In fact, many are saying… they’re the fastest MacBook Airs the company’s ever released. Chew on that for a while.
The company also made of point of claiming the new laptops are a terrific platform for AI! Because AI.
Yes, honey. We see you. You’re very AI.
[eye roll]
Apple also released iOS 17.4 with podcast transcripts, which is a wonderful and much-needed accessibility feature but also really annoying for those of us who edit podcasts because now we have to cut out all the inappropriate comments our co-hosts make so they don’t get copy/pasted to social media.
I mean, we don’t make them. It’s just our co-hosts.
The hits should keep coming as Apple is also widely expected to announced updated iPads this month. It’s somehow still managing to get work done in between fights with software developers.
[John Moltz is a Six Colors contributor. You can find him on Mastodon at Mastodon.social/@moltz and he sells items with references you might get on Cotton Bureau.]
Jason gets his fingerprints all over the M3 MacBook Air; this podcast doesn’t yet have a transcript in Apple Podcasts, but most do. [More Colors and Backstage Pass members get an extra 22 minutes about Apple’s adventures in Europe.]
This week has been a heck of a roller coaster for Epic. After the game-maker’s Sweden branch reportedly had its developer account restored so that the company could launch its alternative app marketplace in Europe, the company was subsequently banned again by Apple. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney posted the exchange with Apple’s Phil Schiller, as well as the ensuing message from Apple’s lawyers saying that Epic would not be allowed to have a developer account in the EU.
But now Epic’s been returned to the App Store again, due in some part to an intervention from the European Commission, with Sweeney saying “a swift inquiry” led to Apple agreeing to reinstate Epic’s account.
The DMA went through its first major challenge with Apple banning Epic Games Sweden from competing with the App Store, and the DMA just had its first major victory. Following a swift inquiry by the European Commission, Apple notified the Commission and Epic that it would relent…
Apple, for its part, issued a terse statement, saying only, “Following conversations with Epic, they have committed to follow the rules, including our DMA policies. As a result, Epic Sweden AB has been permitted to re-sign the developer agreement and accepted into the Apple Developer Program.”1
This whole series of shenanigans has been an own goal by Apple, which seems to have largely taken issue with Sweeney’s criticisms of how Cupertino changed its rules to accommodate Europe’s Digital Markets Act. It doesn’t really end up looking great for Apple, which now seems both petty and ineffective. Just another reminder that optics are important.
Sure seems like we could have skipped this entire middle act, right? ↩
[Dan Moren is the East Coast Bureau Chief of Six Colors, as well as an author, podcaster, and two-time Jeopardy! champion. You can find him on Mastodon at @dmoren@zeppelin.flights or reach him by email at dan@sixcolors.com. His next novel, the sci-fi adventure Eternity's Tomb, will be released in November 2026.]
As a native Safari extension, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – letting you experience a faster, cleaner and more secure experience across all your devices.
It’s not pretty—but it never was. The point is, it runs!
Last month, Dan wrote about getting PC games up on Mac using Apple’s game porting toolkit and the Wine API translation tool, all via an easy to use free app called Whisky.
This inspired me to give Whisky a try with my own white whale, a game that I’ve played in emulation for more than a decade—Diamond Mind, a venerable baseball simulation with legendary statistical accuracy. A colleague1 and I have drafted teams and played entire fictional league seasons in Diamond Mind. But keeping those emulators running over the years has sometimes been more work than it was worth to keep playing.
I gave Whisky a shot, and created a bottle with minimal settings—I only need Windows XP compatibility!—and installed Diamond Mind right off an installer EXE on my Mac hard drive. After some churning and learning and re-loading… up came Diamond Mind. No Windows emulator needed. Right on my Mac.
Sure, there are rough edges—you’ve still got to manage files in the Windows way, and I’m skeptical that network play will work—but… this thing runs. I was keeping an old Surface Go around just to play Diamond Mind! Goodbye to all that. Thanks, Dan, and thanks, Whisky.
The first major visionOS update was released Thursday, with a bunch of security fixes as well as some more substantive interface updates:
Personas are improved, and there’s a new accessibility mode you can use to capture a Persona hands-free. My Persona certainly looks better when running 1.1. (You’ll need to capture a new Persona.)
Organizations that use Mobile Device Management (MDM) to configure, deploy, and manage Apple devices can support Vision Pro.
You can delete Apple’s apps from the Home view.
iMessage Contact Key Verification, a feature recently introduced to Apple’s other platforms but not supported in visionOS 1.0, is now supported.
There are a grab bag of other items, including general improvements to the virtual keyboard, Mac Virtual Display, closed captions, and support for captive Wi-Fi networks.
Updating visionOS is weird. You use the Software Update section of the Settings app, of course, but when it’s ready to install you’re instructed to take the device off so it can reboot and install it. It’s very weird to just walk away and come back later, but I also don’t really want to sit in the dark waiting for visionOS to do its thing, so this is how it will be, I guess.
Here’s a ruling that isn’t music to Apple’s ears: the European Commission this week levied a fine of $2 billion against the company for violating antitrust regulations in the EU, specifically in terms of the distribution of music streaming apps.
Apple, unsurprisingly, was not happy, issuing a scathing rebuke of the kind rarely seen since the days of former CEO Steve Jobs. That missive insists that the EU found “no evidence of consumer harm” and “no evidence of anti-competitive behavior,” arguing that the digital music market in Europe is stronger than its ever been, in large part thanks to the App Store.
Arguments about this will be continuing ad infinitum, not least of all because the company is appealing the decision. But it’s worth taking a look at Apple’s response from a couple different viewpoints.
Alright, so obviously the first step of the process is to physically remove the screen from a MacBook, right?
🤔
Some people will call this a silly stunt, but the truth is that for years Federico has been exploring (and pushing) the edges of Apple’s platforms so the rest of us don’t have to. He’s an ergonomic astronaut, floating away into strange places where no one (outside of rooms in Cupertino with blackened windows) has gone before.
In this case, my biggest takeaway is that Apple needs to get weird and explore different ways to mix its hardware and software. The MacBook Air is a solved problem—but there may be some as-yet-unsolved use cases out there.
The other thing that struck me about Federico’s story is that he’s made a pretty great Vision Pro accessory. I’d love a keyboard and trackpad in a single slab to use with the Vision Pro… and what a great bonus if it had a Mac inside it, too!
A midnight M3 MacBook Air driving two Studio Displays in lid-closed mode.
Apple’s definitive laptop of the last decade, the MacBook Air, finally got an exterior redesign in 2022 with the release of the M2 MacBook Air. This new model traded in the classic wedge shape and rounded edges for flat sides with curved corners, restored the MagSafe connector, and dramatically reduced the size of the display bezel.
It’s a great revision, and I’m happy to report that the M3 MacBook Air, due to be released Friday, is identical to the M2 model in terms of external design. Without reading the model number printed on the bottom, I’m not sure you could tell them apart.
This is not to say that there aren’t new features, of course. The M3 chip introduced with the M3 iMac and MacBook Pro in November offers improved performance, and there are a few other wrinkles that provide a little texture to this update.
But the bottom line is that Apple did a spectacularly good job redesigning the MacBook Air in 2022, and now here’s a revision that brings Apple’s most popular Mac up to date with the latest generation of Apple silicon. If you already have an M2 Air, you probably don’t need this update (with one notable exception I’ll get to later). But if you’ve been holding onto an Intel MacBook Air and waiting for the right time to jump… the M3 Air will provide a soft and pleasant landing.
Back to basics
The 15-inch (starlight, top) and 13-inch (midnight) Air.
I’m not kidding: I can’t tell the M2 and M3 MacBook Air models apart. They’re essentially identical. There are 13-inch and 15-inch models, just as there were (eventually) with the previous generation. The 15-inch Air has slightly better speakers, but the only palpable difference is that it’s got a bigger screen than the 13-inch model. Because the 15-inch M2 model trailed the 13-inch version by a year, this marks the first time that both sizes have launched simultaneously. If you’ve always wanted a larger laptop screen but haven’t wanted to spend the money on a MacBook Pro, the 15-inch Air is a great choice.
The single change to the exterior of the M3 Air to previous versions is a new fingerprint-resistant anodization seal on the dark “midnight” models, which do show fingerprints more than the others. This is apparently the same approach that Apple took with the Space Black M3 MacBook Pro.
My reaction is pretty much the same as the one I had to the MacBook Pro: Apple hasn’t “cured” fingerprints. It is absolutely possible to put fingerprints all over the midnight MacBook Air. I managed to cover it in streaks in a couple of minutes. It might be a little more resistant than the old model, and it might be easier to wipe the surface clean, but after a day’s use, the M2 and M3 midnight Airs in my house looked more or less the same.
It’s worth noting that the MacBook Air’s 1080p FaceTime camera is passable but not amazing—I wish Apple would tuck a nicer camera up there. These new models also have a “notch” in the display that contains the camera, so you’ll lose a little bit of menu bar space, but I’ve never found it to be a big issue. I forget the notch is there, honestly.
And proving that some changes are invisible to the eye, Apple claims that this is the first Apple product to be made with more than 50 percent recycled content, including all of the aluminum, the rare-earth elements in magnets, and the copper on the logic board. (I can’t tell the difference between recycled atoms and original ones, and neither can you.)
Dual-screen details
Two Thunderbolt ports, two displays.
A feature of Apple’s Intel-based MacBook Air models was the ability to drive multiple external monitors at once, providing a relatively affordable way to get a multi-screen workspace. When the MacBook Air moved to Apple Silicon, it lost that capability. In fact, the base M1 and M2 chips are only able to support two displays—and in a laptop, one of those is built in, so that meant support for only one external display.
This set up the frustrating situation where MacBook Air users with multiple-monitor setups were going to need to spend $2000 on a MacBook Pro if they wanted to upgrade to Apple Silicon and keep their setups. The most frustrating thing was that the Mac Mini supported two displays—but of course, it didn’t have that built-in laptop screen.
But the M3 has changed things! I was able to use the M3 MacBook Air with two Apple Studio Displays—as long as I kept the lid of the laptop closed and used an external keyboard and trackpad to control everything. I plugged the two displays into the two Thunderbolt ports on the MacBook Air, and when I closed the lid, the second of the two monitors turned on.
There’s a scaling disparity between two external Studio Displays.
There are a few quirks. The Air can support one 6K display, but the second display can only be 5K resolution. In my setup with two Studio Displays, I could only set the secondary display to use the option that scales everything down a little bit (to the equivalent of 2880 x 1620 resolution); the “main display” (in other words, the one that takes over for the internal one) couldn’t be greater than 2560 x 1440.
In any event, this is a big expansion of the functionality of the MacBook Air for a certain class of users. Apple silicon laptops make great desktop computers when tethered to an external display, and now users don’t have to buy a MacBook Pro to get that functionality. (The base M3 MacBook Pro, which strangely shipped without support for a second external display, will receive a software update later this year to bring it to parity with the M3 MacBook Air.)
The M3 Air also adds support for Wi-Fi 6E, while the older M2 models only support Wi-Fi 6. The difference is real. On my home Internet connection, I was able to get 931 Mbps down and 813 MBps up via Wi-Fi, which is more or less the same speed as my wired connection to my router. In the same spot, my M2 Air could only manage 618 up and 700 down. I wouldn’t buy a new laptop just to have faster Wi-Fi—and keep in mind that you need to upgrade your router and possibly your home internet to take advantage of these speeds—but that’s the fastest Wi-Fi connection I’ve ever experienced.
They keep getting faster
The big speed boost in Apple silicon came during the transition to Intel. Since then, things have kept incrementally improving. The M3 Max is actually a pretty decent bit faster than the M2 Max, but the low-end M3 chip used in the MacBook Air is only a little bit faster than the M2 in the 2022 model. The M3 was about 19 percent faster than the M2 in multi-core CPU tasks but a more impressive 39 percent faster than the M1. In graphics tests, it was only about four percent faster than an M2 Air with the same number of GPU cores.
In a noticeable shifting of gears from previous product launches, Apple has devoted a large amount of time to promoting the M3 Air as the best consumer computer for artificial intelligence tasks, citing the integrated Neural Engine in the M3 chip. Of course, Apple silicon Macs have had the Neural Engine since the M1, and while some AI applications use the Neural Engine, others use the GPU cores—and still others run in the cloud, entirely separate from the computer.
So, is the M3 Air an AI powerhouse? I’m sure it’s fine, and it did manage to transcribe a podcast using OpenAI Whisper in less than 80 percent of the time it took an M2 model—but that was pretty much down to the extra GPU cores, I think. And, of course, an M3 Max MacBook Pro with 40 GPU cores polished off that same transcript in 40 percent less time than the M3 Air.
So yes, the M3 Air is faster than the M2 model and quite a bit faster than the M1 model. But in the Apple silicon era, the MacBook Air has enough horsepower for most general use cases. If you’re really pushing things with something like an AI transcript or a video encode, the MacBook Pro line offers a whole lot of performance upside, which is why I included a 16-CPU, 40-GPU M3 Max MacBook Pro in my speed charts as a comparison.
To be sure, there are other reasons to buy a MacBook Pro instead of a MacBook Air, most notably the beautiful display and the extra ports. The Pro also has a cooling fan, which the Air doesn’t. This makes the Air really nice and quiet, but in extremely taxing situations, the Air will have to restrain itself in order to prevent overheating, while the Pro can just crank up the fans and keep on churning.
Who should upgrade?
If you’ve got an M2 MacBook Air, you can stay put—unless you’re desperate to plug in a second display, that is. M1 Air users might be tempted to upgrade, and there are a lot of reasons to do so—not just that the M3 is faster, but that the entire MacBook Air redesign that came with the M2 is pretty great. (The 13-inch M2 model is still on Apple’s price list, a bargain at $999.)
If you’re still using an Intel MacBook Air, well… if you’re doing that because you have a two-monitor setup, you’ve probably already placed your order. I no longer have a late-model Intel MacBook Air to use as a comparison to these Apple silicon models, but suffice it to say that an Apple silicon Mac is a huge upgrade over the old Intel models.
The truth is, unless you’ve been waiting to plug in a second monitor to a MacBook Air, this upgrade isn’t going to blow anyone away—and that’s okay. The chips keep getting faster, 2022’s MacBook Air design refresh remains great, and the 15-inch model offers a large screen for people who don’t need MacBook Pro prices or features. The MacBook Air is Apple’s most popular Mac, and now it’s even better.
Mark Gurman and Drake Bennett of Bloomberg have a detailed story about the rise and fall of Apple’s car project. This was my favorite small bit:
The new design also incorporated a more traditional automotive interface: a steering wheel and pedals. “They finally smartened up,” says an Apple executive. “I was like, ‘Guys, you could have done this 10 years ago!’”
Sounds like a lot of people inside Apple knew this project was a disaster, and that Tim Cook failed to provide a vision and decisive leadership. Though I do appreciate the internal argument about why to start the project in the first place: “Would you rather compete against Samsung or General Motors?”
The importance of encryption in messaging services, the topics we’d want to see in a prediction market, how many monitors we use, and our preferred podcast app(s).
But while Apple’s ambitious car project may have been left in the dust, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t a valuable experience—nor that it doesn’t continue to pay some dividends for the company. After a decade of work, billions in investment, and the work of hundreds of engineers, you’d better believe that Apple cutting its losses doesn’t mean that everything Titan-related is packed up into a white cardboard box and thrown into Apple Park’s attic.
We already known that many of the people who worked on Project Titan will be reassigned elsewhere. But it’s more than just the personnel who worked on the Apple Car—it’s the technology developed for Apple’s automotive project that will surely work its way into other places across the company’s product lines. After all, one of Apple’s great strengths as a company that controls both its hardware and software is the ability for features and capabilities to be shared across its various devices where appropriate.
Someone new is in charge of Netflix’s film output, which lets us ponder the company’s past and future film strategy. [Downstream+ members get: Max’s new Harry Potter approach, and lessons we could learn from The CW’s mid-budget approach to superhero TV.]
One of my surprisingly favorite features of the Vision Pro is the dynamic display of photographic panoramas. Immersive environments are great, and I love that I can capture stereo video now, but I’ve got an immense library of panoramas that date back to the 1990s.
Yep, that’s right: before the iPhone made it easy to capture panoramas, you used to have to take them the hard way—namely by rotating in a circle and capturing photos every so often. What’s worse, I used to do this with film. I know! I know! But in the late 1990s my parents sold the house I grew up in, and I wanted to capture that place one last time. It was the heyday of QuickTime VR and so I took several rolls of film on my last visit and captured it all.
Developer David Smith gets it. He has detailed how, even now, it’s often superior to capture a bunch of stills and stitch them together rather than use the iPhone’s convenient panorama feature:
Unfortunately right now these panoramas are limited to roughly the width of a standard 12MP capture…
Looking at these iPhone panoramas on a Vision Pro is lovely, they have barely enough resolution to give a good sense of being back at the place where the image was captured. However, after the initial WOW! factor has worn off I started to really notice the fuzziness of the presentation. Presenting an image which is around 3900px tall at a conceptual height of about six feet tall just isn’t enough resolution to really feel immersive.
His solution is mine, too: Take a bunch of photos vertically as you swivel around, then use Photoshop to merge them into a panorama. (The command is File: Automate: Photomerge.) His resulting panoramas were 304 megapixels in size!
If you’re in a spectacular location, it’s totally worth the trouble.
(Left to right): A transcript playing back, selecting a paragraph in the transcript view, and sharing a quote from a podcast.
As was foretold back in January, with the release of iOS 17.4 Apple’s Podcasts app now supports podcast transcripts. This is a pretty big breakthrough in terms of access to podcast content and accessibility of podcast to audiences who might not be able to listen.
The way Apple has implemented transcription is very clever. It’s all happening up in the cloud—the moment it detects that a new episode has arrived, Apple kicks that episode into its transcription queue and quickly generates a full transcript. (This is why, if you start listening the moment an episode drops, you won’t be offered a transcript—but very soon thereafter, it should appear.) Apple supports transcripts in English, Spanish, French, and German, which should cover 80 percent of overall listening in Apple Podcasts.
Apple’s not just running that podcast through a standard transcription engine like the one I use to generate transcripts on my Mac, but one that’s been built to detect some detailed information about how the podcast is structured.
That’s important, because many modern podcasts use something called Dynamic Ad Insertion to insert different ads depending on where you are, who you are, and when you downloaded the episode. A traditional transcript file won’t keep sync with a podcast if the time codes of the ads keep changing. Apple’s engine should be able to detect the beginning and end of those ads and adjust its transcript accodingly, inserting a filler animation (three slowly filling dots that will be familiar to users of lyrics in Apple Music) until the podcast content resumes, at which point the transcript should pick up right where it should.
Apple’s processing also detects content down to the word, so that (again, Apple Music style) it can highlight every word in the transcript as it’s spoken. It detects speaker changes and breaks paragraphs to improve readability, though it can’t identify the speakers. Episodes with chapter markers should see those reflected in the transcripts as subheads.
You can also select a paragraph from a transcript and share it (including a link back to the podcast), or even view the entire podcast transcript on its own without playing audio.
Podcasters who would prefer to use their own transcripts—I could see it happening in podcasts where there are some highly specific spellings and terms that they want to get exactly right—can do so by using the <podcast:transcript> field in their podcast RSS to point at a subtitles file in SRT or VTT format. Apple’s backend systems will pick that file up, run it through their own special processes, and supply it in the same interface.
The only thing that’s really missing is support for private podcast feeds, which is where most members-only versions of podcasts live these days. (Full disclosure: I produce several podcasts with members-only versions, and subscribe to several more!) I realize that there are some complicated technical isuses with members-only podcasts—technically each one is unique for each member, which is a real complicating factor—but between the file download URL and the URL of the transcript file, it should be doable for Apple to group all the members-only podcast episodes together. If it wants to transcribe those episodes itself, it’s more than welcome—but I’m also happy to provide my own transcript. I just don’t want my members missing out on this really great new feature.
It’s time to say goodbye to the M1 MacBook Air (hello, new M3 models!) and our Upshift segment (RIP Apple Car project), but our in-depth coverage of Apple being regulated and fined by the European Commission rolls on!
If you’ve been keeping your powder dry for Apple’s most popular laptop models to get its latest processors, well, time to light that candle. The company announced on Monday that it has updated its MacBook Air line with M3 processors, bringing not only faster performance but also a much desired new capability: support for two external displays.
The new 13-inch model comes in three basic configurations: all three feature an 8-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. While the $1099 base configuration includes an 8-core GPU and 256GB of storage, the $1299 and $1499 versions include a 10-core graphics processor and a 512GB SSD—you can get up to 2TB of storage on any model. Just to mix it up a bit, the two lower configurations start with 8GB of memory, compared to the highest model’s 16GB—all are configurable with up to 24GB of memory at max.
Meanwhile, the 15-inch model also comes in three configurations, though all use the same 8-core GPU/10-core GPU configuration. As with the 13-inch version, the lower two models both includes 8GB of memory with the highest offering 16GB and the higher two configurations have 512GB SSDs with the lowest having only a 256GB.
There should be very little surprise about these options, given that they mimic the same versions of the M3 chip found in the latest version of Apple’s iMac, including the 16 core Neural Engine, hardware ray tracing, and 100GB/s memory bandwidth.
Where they do differ is one place that many vocal users have been upset: the new M3 models not only support an external display at up to 6K resolution but now also support a second external display at up to 5K resolution…if you close the MacBook Air lid. While that may not appease all critics of the display limitations, it’s likely to make many users happy.
The only other change is the addition of Wi-Fi 6E (aka 802.11ax), which offers better performance. Otherwise, specs—including size, weight, and available colors—are unchanged across the line.
There’s one last footnote, though: in true Apple fashion, the 13-inch M2 Air has been kept around to hit that sub-$1000 price point. For $999 you can get a 8-core CPU/8-core GPU model with 8GB of memory and 256GB of storage; there’s also an $1199 configuration with the 8-core CPU/10-core GPU model with 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage. That means there’s effectively a configuration at every $100 interval, so you can buy as much MacBook as you need. The M1 Air, meanwhile, has shuffled off this mortal coil, bidding adieu to its Intel-era design.
All models are available for order today and will ship this Friday. The company also announced a new assortment of Silicone iPhone cases and a refresh of Apple Watch bands as it generally does in the spring.
[Dan Moren is the East Coast Bureau Chief of Six Colors, as well as an author, podcaster, and two-time Jeopardy! champion. You can find him on Mastodon at @dmoren@zeppelin.flights or reach him by email at dan@sixcolors.com. His next novel, the sci-fi adventure Eternity's Tomb, will be released in November 2026.]
