Next Project

Hi, everyone

First, let me remind you about The Burning World (shameless plug).

I’m currently putting together my plans for the rest of the year, deciding which projects to do sooner and which to explore at some later date. I would prefer to do an SF trilogy as I have several other fantasy pieces of work to do too, so … which would you prefer?

Future Shock

(With apologies to John Birmingham, although I did run the idea past him first.)

The year is 2250. Humanity has expanded into space and come into conflict with a hostile alien race, human nations and factions suddenly forced to unite against a common foe, when a fleet from the future arrives, the last survivors of a far greater war against a far greater threat. As the newcomers try to adapt to the past, and the distrusts the human race left behind a long time ago, their arrival sets off utter chaos as their alien allies see their own chance to rewrite history …

The Resistance

Earth has fallen, the once-proud space navies crushed by a vastly-superior alien race. The remnants of the human fleet are forced to serve alien masters (think Vichy France) or remain on the run, lurking in the shadows and working with other aliens in a bid to free humanity before it is too late …

Exiled to Glory

(This one probably needs another name.)

The empire is young, bursting with energy, and trying to unite the rest of humanity under its banner before a second interstellar war can destroy the entire human race. A young officer-candidate has a promising career in front of him until he was caught in bed with the academy commandant’s wife. Unable to discharge him – his scores were too high – the establishment promoted him instead, assigned him to command a rustbucket, and sent him to the far side of incorporated space, a region infested with pirates, rebels and other threats.

They thought it would be the last of him. They were wrong.

What do you think?