The Collected Works of Moriko Handford
(almost) All the Things!
Published Books
A Trans Feminist’s Past (Memoir) - published in 2021 by Transgender Publishing. Moriko Handford grew up never feeling at ease with being male, but without the language or cultural awareness to understand she was transgender until adulthood. Harmful media stereotypes and misinformation delayed her self-acceptance, and while her marriages shaped both her struggles and her growth, it was cosplaying in 2018 that finally opened the door to embracing her true self. Transitioning during a time of political backlash and while balancing the risks of international travel, Forest faced discrimination, depression, and loss, but also found purpose in advocacy, including creating a website to empower workers against bias. In her memoir, she reflects on resilience, privilege, and the complexities of being a trans mother, an Eagle Scout, a former Egyptian resident, and a business leader—perspectives that highlight both the diversity of trans lives and the universality of seeking authenticity.
Flipping (SciFi fiction) - published in 2020 by Stephanie Castle Publications. Born on a space station, Samir Zeka was raised Muslim, observes a Halal diet, fasts during Ramadan, and prays 5 times every day. An introvert, he mostly stuck to his work, his home, his family, and his church community, until the day he decided to push beyond his comfort zone and attend a party that would forever change his life. Intending to look his best for the party, Samir searched his neural link “mesh” for random looks until he came across one that suited him. After some fine-tuning, he “flipped” to the persona of Samantha, a late 30s East Asian, cat-eared woman with shoulder-length purple hair. At the party, Samantha meets Anna, someone who will change Samantha’s perceptions of herself and transform both of their lives.
Big Data Tools for Computing on Clouds and Grids (non-fiction) - published by IGI Global in 2018. The number of tools available for Big Data processing have grown exponentially as cloud providers have introduced solutions for businesses that have little or no money for capital expenditures. The chapter starts by discussing historic data tools and the evolution to those of today. With Cloud Computing, the need for upfront costs has been removed, costs are continuing to fall and costs can be negotiated. This chapter reviews the current types of Big Data tools, and how they evolved. To give readers an idea of costs, the chapter shows example costs (in today's market) for a sampling of the tools and relative cost comparisons of the other tools like the Grid tools used by the government, scientific communities and academic communities. Readers will take away from this chapter an understanding of what tools work best for several scenarios and how to select cost effective tools (even tools that are unknown today).
Tanga (EVE Fan Fiction) - Published in 2003 by IGN. A combat story set within the EVE univserse.
Self Published Books
The Gold Ceiling (Graphic Novel) - A tech billionaire struggles with the reality of an international resolution preventing the accumulation of wealth greater than 1 billion dollars.
Fixing the System (Graphic Novel) - A school committee sets a transgender bathroom ban and the HS students rebel.
Cyber Revolution (SciFi Novel) - Rosa Alvarez's personal hero had always been Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space. Why hadn't her country, the country of her birth, been able to send a woman into space? Her family was touchy on the subject. She was chided as a kid not to talk about Valentina because America didn't like Russia. Americans didn't like immigrants either, like her parents and older siblings. Years later, Rosa found herself revolutionizing the tech industry by working towards gender equity in technical roles. This effort helped her company to break from a slump it had been in, and eventually led to her becoming the CEO. Things were going great until Trump won the election. Rosa had to decide, could she set her beliefs aside and collaborate with the new administration? Could she allow her company's computers to be used to hurt Muslims in America? Could she put her company at risk to make a stand?
Space Orphans (SciFi Novel) - Entropy, the gradual decline to disorder: you can’t conceive the horror of entropy until you’ve lived in space. For Seung Shikun, maintaining SpaceHotel was far more about staying alive than about structural engineering. When an ad titled ‘Orphans Preferred’ was given to him by a friend, he read about Excelsior Mining Corporation’s jobs to establish a mining colony on Mars. Seung had long strived to help get people off Earth. Despite all the risks with living in space, it seemed far better than relying on one fragile planet. Working on the colony was much more apt to satisfy his goal, and it would get him out from under his sociopathic boss. Nobody could predict how critical this one engineer would be to the future of human life on Mars.
Time-Keepers (SciFi Novel) - Traveling into the future is easy. To a small extent anybody who has ever flown has traveled forward in time (faster than the rest of the world travels through time). Traveling backwards through time however was impossible until the invention of the time machine. Jared Mills and his friend Aaron Collins have been trying to discover what would happen if the past could be changed to create a better future. For example, what would happen if Hitler was killed as a child? In Hitler's youth it certainly would be easy to get to him. Unfortunately, Jared and Aaron discover it is impossible to change a past you have been changed or created by. Because Jared and Aaron would not have been born without Hitler they cannot kill Hitler. To circumvent this problem they create a secret underground colony in Switzerland. The colony allows them to no longer be affected by events and people of the future that they would want to stop. As the colonists (or Time-Keepers) quickly discover it's still not that easy to change the past.
Casts
Practical Leadership Cast (Leadership Podcast) - Interviews of leaders about how to succeed in a leadership role.
Green Pirate (Green Energy and Conservation vidcast) - Teaching ways for individuals to reduce energy consumption and use green energy.
Games
Nevermind (Horror Game) - A game that gets harder the more stressed you are.
Devotion (Global Game Jam Entry) - Two travelers journey up a mountain when one of them is struck by a monster hiding within the fog. The player's goal is to collect food to care for him while avoiding the monster.
Natural Disaster (Turn-based Tile Game) - You’re a developer and you want to earn more money than your competition. Build buildings while trying to survive natural disasters.
Waystone (Global Game Jam Entry) - The humans are running from the monsters. Time is running out. The portals for getting home are unstable, but portal crystals are hard to find and needed to get there or be trapped forever.