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Happy Holidays From Richard Phillips

Happy Thanksgiving weekend and a very happy holiday season to you all from my wife, Carol, and from me.  We laughed a lot at the new 6 minute episode of the new comedy web series, Cubed, written by my daughter, Sienna Farall who also stars in it. Here’s the link to Cubed: Thanksgiving Goes Native. If you enjoy it, please like it on YouTube.

Best, Richard

Goodreads Giveaway of The Altreian Enigma

Enter for a chance to win a free copy of my soon to be released novel, The Altreian Enigma. Here is the link to the goodreads contest.

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/210454-the-altreian-enigma

 

British Kindle Daily Deal

For all my British fans out there, my Rho Agenda Inception series, Once Dead, Dead Wrong, and Dead Shift, will each be on sale for 0.99GDP as the Kindle Daily Deal on November 14th.

Enjoy,

Richard

Lighter Side of Politics

The silly season is upon us but whoever you’re voting for, this youtube video is funny.

Richard Phillips SciFi Page

Like Richard Phillips SciFi my new facebook page where I post updates on my current projects, things that inspire my science fiction, short personal videos, and answers to common questions I get from fans and other writers. I also periodically post author giveaways, not just books and teasers but things like signed author bookplates (stickers) so that fans can turn their paperback books into author signed copies.

www.facebook.com/richardphillipsscifi

Hello fans. I have launched my new facebook SCIFI page. To get my latest posts as they happen, please like www.facebook.com/richardphillipsscifi

 

Richard Phillips SciFi Page

Hello fans. I have launched my new facebook SCIFI page. To get my latest posts as they happen, please like www.facebook.com/richardphillipsscifi

 

MacLeod Andrews Performs The Altreian Enigma

I’m happy to announce that MacLeod Andrews, who has been the voice for six of my seven Rho Agenda Novels, has signed on to perform the audio book for The Altreian Enigma. It is great to have him available for this release.

Kindle Daily Deal 08/17/2016 The Rho Agenda

The three original books of my Rho Agenda Series: The Second Ship, Immune, and Wormhole are today’s Kindle Daily Deal for $1.99 each.

Orson Scott Card Reviews Immune

I want to send a shoutout to the great Orson Scott Card who helped launch my fulltime writing career with his review of Immune.

“A second v olu me that stands alone – brilliantly”

Orson Scott Card

Richard Phillips has led such a life that he absolutely nails the science aspect of this new sci-fi classic – and yet also gets the action and the political aspects exactly right as well. Speaking as an old sci-fi writer myself, I know how hard it is to do what Phillips has done. But here’s the clincher. Reading on my Nano, I began this book without remembering that this was volume two of the Rho Agenda series. Within a few chapters I realized that there must have been an earlier book. But so skillfully does Phillips handle exposition, and so clearly and deeply did he create his characters and their relationships, that I felt no need to stop and go back to listen to the first volume. I WILL go back and listen to The Second Ship, now that I’ve read Immune to its brilliant and completely satisfying end – but only because this new writer is so skillful and this storyline is so inventive and moving that I don’t want to miss a chapter of it. I promise you that Richard Phillips is going to be a popular and influential writer, period.

The Rho Agenda has young protagonists, and so the series could be viewed as YA (Young Adult) fiction. While the novel is brutally real, including sexual tension, there is NO explicit sex and nothing to keep you from handing this book to a mature and well-informed twelve-year-old. Yet it is also completely fulfilling for adult readers – as good as any science fiction being written today.

MacLeod Andrews gives a perfect performance. You forget you’re listening to a book. All you can think about is what’s happening and why. Moving back and forth among characters, he is always clear as to who’s talking – without “doing” voices in any obvious way. This is how audiobooks are supposed to be read.