A Book Announcement

And The Preface to Fields and Energy: Book 1

It’s happening!

What if the most fundamental force in nature were misunderstood—and its true nature forgotten?

Thus begins the back cover blurb for Fields & Energy Book I.

In this groundbreaking first volume of the Fields & Energy series, theoretical physicist and inventor Hans G. Schantz takes readers on a journey to rediscover the forgotten foundations of electromagnetism. With clarity and precision, Schantz reveals how 19th-century scientists developed a deep and intuitive understanding of electromagnetic phenomena, only for much of that insight to be sidelined in modern physics education.

Why did this shift happen? What was lost along the way? And how might restoring this classical perspective help us make sense of today’s most puzzling questions in physics?

Drawing on his unique background as a physicist turned engineer, entrepreneur, and science fiction writer, Schantz blends rigorous science with engaging storytelling. He shows how a clearer conception of energy, fields, and their interaction can unify the practical and theoretical sides of physics and point the way to a more complete understanding of the quantum world.

This is the essential starting point for anyone seeking to understand the true nature of electromagnetism, and why reclaiming its origins might just reshape the future of science.

Also in the Fields & Energy series:

• Book II: Where Physics Went Wrong

• Book III: How Electromagnetism & Quantum Mechanics Work

I’ve set an August 28, 2025 release date, but I may be able to move that forward. The draft is going out for final editing and proof reading as this posts.

The preface sets the story into context.

Author’s Preface to Fields & Energy Book 1

Part science fiction author and part showman, Harlan Ellison (1934–2018) convincingly proved a professional author can write good fiction under pressure. He would go to a bookstore and write a story in front of an audience, posting each successive page as it rolled off his typewriter. No editing. No revisions. A finished story done almost as quickly as he could type it. He even accepted story prompts and ideas from his live audience and wove them into the story [[i]].

I am not as skilled an author of non-fiction as Harlan Ellison is of fiction. But then, Fields & Energy is hardly a few thousand word short story, either.

It was all done, mostly. I figured I could post weekly updates of Fields & Energy to my Substack (aetherczar.substack.com), the pressure of the deadline forcing me to complete the light editing necessary to prepare the book for publication. Harlan was right about professionals needing to be able to write under pressure, and the pressure of meeting a weekly deadline would make sure I got the job done.

Oh for those glorious days of last summer when I edited and cranked out a half-dozen sections in the course of a few hours, queued them up to post, and went on with life.

Now is the winter of my discontent.

Spring, actually, but who am I to mess with Francis Bacon?

It was already obvious I was going to blow past the 550 page hardcover limit for Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing. I kept finding and adding interesting details, vintage illustrations, and more in-depth discussions to address the questions and feedback my insightful Substack readers and Telegram posse offered.

“I’ll split it in half,” was the logical conclusion.

Then came Chapter 5 with a concise three page summary on relativity, Section 5.2, if you were keeping track. At last count, my best estimate is that section will clock in at 150 pages. The most recent “subsection,” 5.2.9 totaled 37 pages. And it took two months to write. That’s not a subsection. That’s a chapter, and a generous chapter at that. The kind that’s begging for a bifurcation.

Yes. There will now be three volumes of Fields and Energy:

• Book 1: Fundamentals & Origins of Electromagnetism

• Book 2: Where Physics Went Wrong

• Book 3: How Electromagnetism and Quantum Mechanics Work

Chapter 5 has now expanded into about 250 pages by the time I add an index. My first book on The Art and Science of Ultrawideband Antennas clocked in at 331 pages and grew to 563 pages in the second edition. Always buy pants in the fall with Thanksgiving and Christmas in mind, and leave a bit of extra room for potential expansion. Will there be a second edition? I don’t know, but it’s wise to plan for contingencies. With that in mind, Chapter 5 will be a stand-alone book, and Fields and Energy will comprise three comfortable volumes in the 250-300 page range.

Unless plans change yet again!

For a front row seat of the project as it unfolds, click your way to aetherczar.substack.com to sign up to my Fields & Energy Substack. I’ll catch up with you there, or in the preface for Book 2.

Hans G. Schantz
Big Cove, Alabama, USA
June 2025

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[[i]] Ellison, Harlan, Ellison Under Glass: Stories Written in Windows, Charnel House, 2019. See: https://books.google.com/books/about/Ellison_Under_Glass.html