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November 3, 2014
Horizon - meet the crew - Blog Tour day 2
It's day 2 of the Horizon blog tour.
Over on Trent Jamieson's blog you can learn more about the crew of the explorer ship Magellan
I knew from the start
that I wanted to explore a number of scientific concepts relating to space
travel, planetary exploration and alien environments. But I also wanted to make
sure my characters were as ‘real’ as possible...
Meet the crew on Trent's blog.
Follow
Over on Trent Jamieson's blog you can learn more about the crew of the explorer ship Magellan
I knew from the start
that I wanted to explore a number of scientific concepts relating to space
travel, planetary exploration and alien environments. But I also wanted to make
sure my characters were as ‘real’ as possible...
Meet the crew on Trent's blog.
Follow
November 2, 2014
Horizon - Blog Tour day 1
Horizon is out in the wild, which means the Horizon blog tour has officially kicked off!
Day one features an extract from Chapter 1 of Horizon on the Voyager Blog.
Something was stuck in her throat,
hard and
unyielding. Her gullet closed
painfully around it. Her stomach convulsed. Hot puke welled up and sprayed from
her mouth. It stuck to her face, running down her neck and breasts. Her
Day one features an extract from Chapter 1 of Horizon on the Voyager Blog.
Something was stuck in her throat,
hard and
unyielding. Her gullet closed
painfully around it. Her stomach convulsed. Hot puke welled up and sprayed from
her mouth. It stuck to her face, running down her neck and breasts. Her
October 31, 2014
Horizon - win a free copy three ways
Horizon is published today, and to celebrate I'm running three giveaways.
All you have to do to win a free epub of Horizon is to:
Twitter - retweet my tweet - https://twitter.com/stevenson_keith/s...
Google+ - share my post to your stream - https://plus.google.com/1091511818363...
Facebook - share my post to your timeline - https://www.facebook.com/
All you have to do to win a free epub of Horizon is to:
Twitter - retweet my tweet - https://twitter.com/stevenson_keith/s...
Google+ - share my post to your stream - https://plus.google.com/1091511818363...
Facebook - share my post to your timeline - https://www.facebook.com/
October 30, 2014
Horizon - on the cusp
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October 29, 2014
Horizon - 2 days till launch!
It's only 2 days until Horizon is published by HarperCollins!
I'll be running giveaways on my Google+, Facebook and Twitter accounts from Saturday to Tuesday where you can win a free copy of the ebook.
And from next Monday the Horizon blog tour kicks off. Here are the dates and sites:
3 November - Voyager Blog - Horizon Chapter One (extract)
4 November - Trent Jamieson's blog - Character
I'll be running giveaways on my Google+, Facebook and Twitter accounts from Saturday to Tuesday where you can win a free copy of the ebook.
And from next Monday the Horizon blog tour kicks off. Here are the dates and sites:
3 November - Voyager Blog - Horizon Chapter One (extract)
4 November - Trent Jamieson's blog - Character
October 7, 2014
Super-sized crops
One of the issues facing the Earth of the future that I touch on in Horizon is food security.
With global population set to soar between now and 2050, particularly in third-world countries, it's a real problem working out how we can feed everyone. Science, of course, has a way of finding solutions, but these can throw up a host of other technical and ethical issues.
An article in the current
With global population set to soar between now and 2050, particularly in third-world countries, it's a real problem working out how we can feed everyone. Science, of course, has a way of finding solutions, but these can throw up a host of other technical and ethical issues.
An article in the current
October 2, 2014
Horizon - cover reveal
HarperVoyager Impulse have produced a beautiful cover for my SF thriller Horizon that really illustrates some of the themes of the book (amongst other things). Horizon is out 1 November.
September 22, 2014
On the Horizon...
Horizon is beginning to make its presence known and is now available for pre-order on a number of sites. So if you have a lazy $2.99, there are a few places you can splurge:
Amazon
Amazon Australia
Apple iBooks
Kobo
Nook
Google Play
Also with the launch on 1 November, I'll be running a series of articles about the book, the characters and the science behind the story as part of the Horizon
Amazon
Amazon Australia
Apple iBooks
Kobo
Nook
Google Play
Also with the launch on 1 November, I'll be running a series of articles about the book, the characters and the science behind the story as part of the Horizon
September 1, 2014
The books that stay with you
A few days ago, author Adam Browne tagged me on a Facebook post to deliver a list of the ten books that influenced me most. I don't generally go in for 'top tens'. For example I couldn't constrain myself to just ten favourite movies, but this list was a little different. From eleven years old and all through my teens I read voraciously. It was - looking back - a great period when I had more than
August 13, 2014
Big Sky: The SF Masterworks project
Since 1999, Millenium and, subsequently, Gollancz has been publishing the very best science fiction novels in the SF Masterworks series, starting with Joe Haldeman's The Forever War (1975), right up to the latest addition of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's Monday Begins on Saturday (1965) and stopping off at other science fiction greats like Phillip K Dick (multiple times), Robert Silverbert, HG
