SF Summer
I've got two Science Fiction novels coming out this summer, under my Dean Vale pen name, as ever. I have alluded to one of them a few times -- the book I originally wrote 6-8 years ago, then rewrote because I didn't think anyone would believe the scenario I'd laid out could be possible.
That one will be out there by summer's end, and is particularly appropriate to the catastrophe we're facing at the moment.
The other one, which'll appear at the start of summer (sorry I'm talking about them in reverse order), is a cyberpunk story I wrote three years ago (!) -- it was intended to be the start of a 10-book series, but now I think it's likelier to be a trilogy.
This is because my Shutterclique superheroic urban fantasy series appeared after I'd written the first cyberpunk story and stole the thunder of the other one, to be honest. When I blazed away on the first three Shutterclique novels in '23, they just took the spotlight away from the cyberpunk series. I've never had a series of mine do that to another one like that.
It's not that there's anything wrong with the cyberpunk story -- after languishing for three years, one might think that -- it's fine; it's just that other projects pushed their way into production, and there it happened.
At any rate, it'll be interesting to see how the cyberpunk story fares. All of my work basically goes out into the void, but cyberpunk, being both highly influential to me as a late teen (some of my first short stories were cyberpunk tales I sent to venues for my first rejections), and also seemingly retro in the face of the dystopian world growing around us.
So many elements of cyberpunk came true that it is one of those rare SF genres that actually largely came true (minus the coolest aspects of it). With the CYBERPUNK 2077 video game out there for years, now, maybe nostalgia for cyberpunk will garner interest in this book of mine. Or maybe not.
Anyway, with INFERNA appearing this month, and the two SF novels bookending the Summer of '25, it should be an interesting year.
Hüsker Dü | Celebrated Summer
That one will be out there by summer's end, and is particularly appropriate to the catastrophe we're facing at the moment.
The other one, which'll appear at the start of summer (sorry I'm talking about them in reverse order), is a cyberpunk story I wrote three years ago (!) -- it was intended to be the start of a 10-book series, but now I think it's likelier to be a trilogy.
This is because my Shutterclique superheroic urban fantasy series appeared after I'd written the first cyberpunk story and stole the thunder of the other one, to be honest. When I blazed away on the first three Shutterclique novels in '23, they just took the spotlight away from the cyberpunk series. I've never had a series of mine do that to another one like that.
It's not that there's anything wrong with the cyberpunk story -- after languishing for three years, one might think that -- it's fine; it's just that other projects pushed their way into production, and there it happened.
At any rate, it'll be interesting to see how the cyberpunk story fares. All of my work basically goes out into the void, but cyberpunk, being both highly influential to me as a late teen (some of my first short stories were cyberpunk tales I sent to venues for my first rejections), and also seemingly retro in the face of the dystopian world growing around us.
So many elements of cyberpunk came true that it is one of those rare SF genres that actually largely came true (minus the coolest aspects of it). With the CYBERPUNK 2077 video game out there for years, now, maybe nostalgia for cyberpunk will garner interest in this book of mine. Or maybe not.
Anyway, with INFERNA appearing this month, and the two SF novels bookending the Summer of '25, it should be an interesting year.
Hüsker Dü | Celebrated Summer
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