Patrick Chiles's Blog, page 2
September 7, 2022
New Book, New Look
Five years ago, astronaut Jack Templeton took the spacecraft Magellan to the farthest reaches of our solar system, never to be heard from again. Until now. When the Magellan suddenly reappears where an undiscovered planet was suspected to be, it poses more questions than answers. How did Jack survive all this time? Can he return before his life support …
July 28, 2021
Summer Book Blowout
It’s been a busy summer. In fact, the past year has been kind of nuts and the fruits of all that labor are now making it to the shelves. The latest is WORLDBREAKERS, a short story anthology I was honored to be a part of along with greats like David Weber and Larry Correia. The …
May 28, 2021
The Early Bird…
…gets the E-book. Official release day is June 1st, but FRONTIER is available now on Kindle if you can’t wait. So hit that button!
May 26, 2021
The Need For Speed
This is disappointing: Aerion Corp. today ceased operations, citing a lack of available financing for its plans to bring a family of supersonic aircraft to market. In a statement, the company said it had built an $11.2 billion backlog for the first of that family, the Mach 1.2 AS2 business jet, but “in the current …
May 21, 2021
T-Minus Ten Days
FRONTIER in the wild, at Secrets Beach Resort in Cancun. Wish I could say I took this, but it was one of my “advance readers.” Writing a new book is always exciting but I especially enjoyed this one. Its an action-adventure / technothriller that builds on characters introduced in PERIGEE and FARSIDE. FRONTIER combines themes …
May 10, 2021
Coming Soon
The blog may have been dormant for a while, but rest assured I haven’t been. I have two titles coming out this summer, and a short story appearing in an anthology with such greats as David Weber and Larry Correia. First up is Frontier, out June 1st (available for pre-order now, so hit that button!): …
January 10, 2020
FROZEN ORBIT Review Thread
Today was a good day. Saw Frozen Orbit in a bookstore for the first time, which floored me. Even though I knew it was there, the feeling of finally seeing it for sale out there in the big old world next to my favorites like James S. A. Corey and Larry Correia is, well…wow. I …
January 6, 2020
What Were You Thinking?
Tomorrow is the big day, which I’ve been waiting for since this time last year when Baen accepted Frozen Orbit for publication. And let me tell you, the intervening twelve months have been a rollercoaster: Graduated our youngest from high school, quit my job of 20+ years (a good run by any standard these days, …
January 4, 2020
Countdown to Launch
Three days to go! Frozen Orbit is about NASA’s first expedition to the outer planets, prompted by the discovery of a top-secret Russian spacecraft, Arkangel, abandoned at Pluto around the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union. If you’re wondering how in the world they could have pulled that off given the state of …
December 30, 2019
Next Giant Leap
Can’t believe I forgot to link this, so I’m blaming the Christmas rush. Baen asked me to write a short background story on Frozen Orbit in advance of its release next week.From the opening: Vladimir Vaschenko’s first indication that his landing attempt might not have planned for every variable was when the ground beneath him …
