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Saginaw Library Author Reception

The Saginaw Library is hosting a reception for local authors on November 7th from 5pm to 7:30.

I’ll be there scribbling away on my current work in progress. There’ll be copies of all my published books if you want to pick one up. If you just want to say hi, come on by. They serve good cookies.

Fencon Panel Schedule

Fencon, my favorite local con, is this coming weekend by DFW airport. Come on by if you can! I’ll be on these panels:

It’s the AR/VR panel !

Friday 2:00 PM Grapevine 1

Contracts You Shouldn’t Sign

Friday 5:00 PM Galleria 4

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program

Friday 6:00 PM Grapevine 1

What’s Your Role?

Saturday 12:00 PM Grapevine 1

Social Prosthetics and Other Digital Assistants

Saturday 1:00 PM Grand 3&4

The Good, Bad and the Ugly of Generation Ships

Saturday 3:00 PM Grapevine 1

Space Stations on the Brain

Sunday 11:00 AM Southlake

How to Build a Blaster

Sunday 1:00 PM Grapevine 1

Your World Needs Fungi and Flies

Sunday 2:00 PM Grapevine 1

LibertyCon Schedule

I’ll be at LibertyCon in Chattanooga, TN last weekend of June. If you’re there, here’s where I’ll be shooting off my mouth:

Fri 04:00PM Author’s Alley

Fri 08:00PM Watch the Pros play “Terraforming Mars” – can actual rocket scientists simulate making a planet habitable?

Sat 11:00AM Beamed Energy Launch – shine a big enough laser on your spaceship and it’ll go straight up.

Sat 02:00PM Autograph Session

Sat 07:00PM Reading: Karl Gallagher & Marina Fontaine – I’m going to bring several works and see what the audience is in the mood for.

Sat 11:00PM Mad Scientist Roundtable – Discussing the cutting edge of science with actual scientists and engineers.

Sun 10:00AM Kaffeeklatsch – breakfast with the pros

The Lost War Sequel and Audiobook Out

The War Revealed, second book in The Lost War duology, is now out.

There’s also an audiobook out of The Lost War, available on Amazon and Audible.

The Lost War Released

It was supposed to be a weekend of costumed fun. Instead these medieval historical reenactors are flung into a wilderness by magic they don’t understand. They must struggle to survive and deal with monsters who consider them prey . . . or worse.

New portal fantasy novel The Lost War is now available on Amazon.  

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ConDFW Schedule

I’m a panelist at the last (alas) ConDFW next weekend. My schedule is:

Friday:

Main Programming, 3 PM – Up, Up and Away! Developments in Rocketry

Saturday:

Autographs, 4 PM – Karl K. Gallagher, Terry Gene, T. M. Hunter

Reading, 6 PM – KB Bogen, Karl K. Gallagher

Programming 3, 9 PM – Pornography vs Erotica – It’s the End of the World [Adult]

Sunday:

Main Programming, 11 AM – Science Fiction Spaceships and the Laws of Physics

Main Programming, 2 PM – What’s Ahead for Star Wars?

The reading will be the opening of my upcoming portal fantasy novel, The Lost War. A group of historical reenactors struggle to survive when flung into a fantasy world.

Reading and Panels at Fencon

Fencon is this coming weekend in DFW. I’ll be reading from my upcoming portal fantasy novel on Saturday at 2pm. I’ll also be on some panels:

Energy: That’s What We Want Friday 4:00 PM

Commercial Crew Program Friday 6:00 PM

Lessons learned from the space shuttle Saturday 10:00 AM

The Future of NASA Saturday 11:00 AM

Legion of the Lost Ones: Modern Military SF Sunday 10:00 AM

Distant Shores Sunday 12:00 PM

The First Space War Sunday 1:00 PM

Single Stage to Orbit Spacecraft Sunday 3:00 PM

LibertyCon Schedule

I’m a panelist at LibertyCon in Chattanooga, TN, June 29-July 1. I’ll have all three books available. In my downtime I may fiddling with the manuscript of a fantasy novel (in edits) or working on a space opera novel (12,000 words and growing). Or more likely I’ll be chatting or boardgaming or otherwise letting productivity go hang for the weekend. Here’s my schedule:

Fri 01:00PM Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and the Future of Work

Fri 08:00PM The First Lunar Base – What It Might Look Like

Sat 05:00PM Industry in Space

Sat 08:00PM Author’s Alley

Sat 09:00PM Evil Scientists for a Better Tomorrow!

Sat 10:00PM SIGMA, Futurism and Science Fiction

Sat 11:00PM Mad Scientist Roundtable

Sun 10:00AM Kaffeeklatsch

Sun 12:00PM Reading: Mike Massa & Karl Gallagher

Sun 02:00PM Autograph Session

 

Torchship Trilogy is Prometheus Finalist–and on sale!

I’m delighted to announce that the Torchship Trilogy is a finalist for this year’s Prometheus Award for best libertarian novel of the year.

Past recipients include Neal Stephenson, Poul Anderson, Larry Niven, and Vernor Vinge.

To celebrate, I’ve put out an omnibus edition including Torchship, Torchship Pilot, and Torchship Captain. It’s on a countdown sale starting March 28th priced at $0.99. Yes, that’s fifteen dollars worth of books for a

buck.

My congratulations to the other nominees. I enjoyed Andy Weir’s Artemis almost as much as The Martian. Darkship Revenge is another excellent installment in Sarah Hoyt’s Darkship series. Travis Corcoran’s Powers of the Earth is a great tale of lunar revolution which hits all my buttons. I’ll be checking out Ken MacLeod’s Emergence and Casey & Hunt’s Drug Lord as soon as I can.

And if you don’t want to gamble a buck on the whole Torchship Trilogy, the first Torchship novel is free starting March 27th for five days.

ConDFW 2018

I’ll be on several panels at ConDFW, happening February 16-18 in Fort Worth.

Friday 4pm – Fighters in Space Opera

Friday 6pm – The Best Books Nobody Ever Heard Of

Saturday 10am – Autograph Session

Saturday 11am – Microgravity and You: The Trials of Colonization

Saturday 9pm – Pornography vs Erotica – The Geometry of Sex [Adult]

Sunday 12pm – The Nuts and Bolts of Print-On-Demand and Indie Publishing

Sunday 1pm – Reading

Sunday 3pm – Where’s My Hoverboard? Science Fiction Today