I’m Daniel Nelson, an inventor and science-fiction author drawn to stories where technology, ambition, and human choices collide in ways that can change the fate of the world. In this blog, I will share the ideas behind my books—including Moving Mountains—along with insights into the science, storytelling, and imagination that shape them.

I released my first novel, Moving Mountains, in late 2024. Moving Mountains is a speculative fiction thriller that is an exciting page turner. Some of my favorite books are: The Martian (Andy Weir), Prey(Michael Crichton), Splinter Cell series(Tom Clancy), Cold Storage (David Koepp), and Aurora (David Koepp). If you like these, then you might find Moving Mountains to be a satisfying read.

Corporate greed gambles with a trillion-dollar asteroid and loses.

Now one astronaut must undo the damage and save humanity.

How an Asteroid Inspired the Sci-Fi Thriller Moving Mountains

In 2015, I read an article on Space.com that changed my perspective on space. It was about a small half-kilometer asteroid named 2011 UW158. There are a few very interesting things about this asteroid that I want to point out. The first is that it passed by at only 1.5 million miles from Earth—which is…

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