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March 4, 2017
Silver Wings Promo
Most readers here won’t need this information for themselves, but if you know someone who might enjoy On Silver Wings, the first novel is free this weekend (March 3rd to 7th), so let them know. 
Silver Wings promo
Most readers here won’t need this information for themselves, but if you know someone who might enjoy On Silver Wings, the first novel is free this weekend (March 3rd to 7th), so let them know. 
March 3, 2017
The Knighthood
My new novel, The Knighthood has launched on Amazon. Take a dash of old mythology, a generous heaping of apocalyptic atmosphere, and a refusal to go quietly into the night and you have Elanthielle’s origin story. The world was at war. Humanity lost.
Time for a rematch.
Knighthood.
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March 2, 2017
The Knighthood
My new novel, The Knighthood has launched on Amazon. Take a dash of old mythology, a generous heaping of apocalyptic atmosphere, and a refusal to go quietly into the night and you have Elanthielle’s origin story. The world was at war. Humanity lost.
Time for a rematch.
Knighthood.
November 15, 2016
Empire Asunder Launches Today!
Book 2 of the Scourwind Legacy Trilogy, An Empire Asunder, has finally launched and with it the newest entry in the ongoing adventures of the Scourwind Twins, their allies, and … of course, their many enemies.
Empire Asunder launches today!
Book 2 of the Scourwind Legacy Trilogy, An Empire Asunder, has finally launched and with it the newest entry in the ongoing adventures of the Scourwind Twins, their allies, and… of course, their many enemies.
You can check it out at amazon, more below :
Some time after the events of the first novel, Lydia is now Empress while her brother Brennan has elected to follow in their elder brother’s footsteps and join the Cadre. With his brother’s own weapon at his side, Brennan finds himself on the trail of a plot against the Empire and against his only remaining family. Sometimes it takes an ultimate sacrifice to win the day… and sometimes, even that is not enough.
Read An Empire Asunder today : http://amzn.to/2f0hz1K
or go check out Heirs of Empire, at a pretty good price : https://t.co/fDLcoBw8jC
March 1, 2016
Gravity Waves and Their Impact … on Me
A review brought up an interesting criticism of this series, and probably Odyssey One now that I think about it.
Recent scientific developments have managed to measure the propagation rate of gravity waves… and, surprising no one really, they travel at lightspeed. This is an issue in my books, and others I know of, because bring written before this bit of information became quantified, gravity waves clearly travel faster than that in this universe.
While a pain, that’s the risk of writing a science fiction novel with truly speculative THEORIES rather than merely speculative technology. If you get specific about anything, there’s a better than average chance that you’re going to be proven wrong at some point.
I wonder, though, does this… as the critique said, somehow magically change the nature of the theoretical discussion to ‘technobabble’? Or was it always technobabble and merely floated there, unrecognized?
Or is there a third option? Does a disproved theory, or hypothesis in this case, still have respectability despite it’s new status, at least as long as the thinker(s) behind it are willing to admit to the new facts?
There is a lot of be learned from ideas that we know are wrong, so long as we acknowledge that they’re wrong in the process.
Of course, that’s academic and this is fiction… Though the speed of gravity propagation is a relatively small part of this universe’s canon, and not generally vital to any plots, I doubt I’ll retcon it out of existence. I do try to stay within real scientific theories for the most part, but the gravity detection speed was always more of a nod to Weber than anything important to the plot.
Actually, finally finding evidence of gravity waves existing helps the novel’s plot far more than it hurts. It actually means that at least SOME parts of their gravity jump drive mechanism have been confirmed as ‘not entirely batshit’.
Gravity Waves and their Impact… on me. lol
A review brought up an interesting criticism of this series, and probably Odyssey One now that I think about it.
Recent scientific developments have managed to measure the propagation rate of gravity waves… and, surprising no one really, they travel at lightspeed. This is an issue in my books, and others I know of, because bring written before this bit of information became quantified, gravity waves clearly travel faster than that in this universe.
While a pain, that’s the risk of writing a science fiction novel with truly speculative THEORIES rather than merely speculative technology. If you get specific about anything, there’s a better than average chance that you’re going to be proven wrong at some point.
I wonder, though, does this… as the critique said, somehow magically change the nature of the theoretical discussion to ‘technobabble’? Or was it always technobabble and merely floated there, unrecognized?
Or is there a third option? Does a disproved theory, or hypothesis in this case, still have respectability despite it’s new status, at least as long as the thinker(s) behind it are willing to admit to the new facts?
There is a lot of be learned from ideas that we know are wrong, so long as we acknowledge that they’re wrong in the process.
Of course, that’s academic and this is fiction… Though the speed of gravity propagation is a relatively small part of this universe’s canon, and not generally vital to any plots, I doubt I’ll retcon it out of existence. I do try to stay within real scientific theories for the most part, but the gravity detection speed was always more of a nod to Weber than anything important to the plot.
Actually, finally finding evidence of gravity waves existing helps the novel’s plot far more than it hurts. It actually means that at least SOME parts of their gravity jump drive mechanism have been confirmed as ‘not entirely batshit’.
Cheers everyone.
February 26, 2016
De Oppresso Liber
Sorilla Aida is BACK in book 6 of the Silver Wings series, De Oppresso Liber
The war may be over, but the fighting continues as SOLCOM learns of an excursion by the Ross’El against an unaffiliated pre-space civilization in the no man’s land between Earth and the Alien Alliance. With always more questions than answers, SOLCOM dispatches a ship to quietly survey the situation and determine what, if any, course of action is best.
Captain Sorilla Aida and her team are the ground element assigned to the task, with the clear understanding that no matter what… they are to remain undetected by the alien overlords now controlling the moon world. Sorilla knows only one thing for certain as she learns more about the situation:
Oppression is universal, Freedom is never free… and this is EXACTLY what she trained for.
De Oppresso Liber
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Sorilla Aida is BACK in book 6 of the Silver Wings serie...
Sorilla Aida is BACK in book 6 of the Silver Wings series, De Oppresso Liber
The war may be over, but the fighting continues as SOLCOM learns of an excursion by the Ross’El against an unaffiliated pre-space civilization in the no man’s land between Earth and the Alien Alliance. With always more questions than answers, SOLCOM dispatches a ship to quietly survey the situation and determine what, if any, course of action is best.
Captain Sorilla Aida and her team are the ground element assigned to the task, with the clear understanding that no matter what… they are to remain undetected by the alien overlords now controlling the moon world. Sorilla knows only one thing for certain as she learns more about the situation :
Oppression is universal, Freedom is never free… and this is EXACTLY what she trained for.
De Oppresso Liber
