Update January 2014
In the past few weeks I've got back to somewhere like my previous writing regime. I've four novellas in progress. Currently I'm working on:
Title: Lucky and the Asteroid
Genre: Space Opera, Realistic SF, Science Fiction
Influenced by: Astronomy, Northern Soul, the NHS, Green Cards, Street Drug-Dealers, everyday life in Northern England. This started as an excuse to incorporate bits of astronomy and other space sciences into a Science Fiction story. For authorial reasons it has strong elements of realism. My premise was: What if you couldn't risk being identified as alien and simply wanted to live quietly?
Lucky is a humanoid alien who’s escaped a clash of star-faring civilisations. Her homeworld lies in the galactic core. The battles that destroyed her civilisation were a long time ago, so long that suns have faded to dullness. Few of the places she once knew can now support life. Her people, the flowing people, were destroyed by the measuring people. She’s been on the run since, and exists in slowtime a process that lets her sleep in suspended animation while her ship, the Expedient, ploughs its lonely furrow between the stars. Eventually the Expedient comes upon a back-water of the Milky Way, known locally as Orion’s Belt.
Her dream is to live quietly in Mid-West America. Ideally she'd like to raise a family; but first she needs an identity. She decides to pose as a refugee from the recent Balkans War, who’s fled to live in the UK.
Status 16,000 words done
The others are:
Title: Brant, A Fantasy
Genre: High Fantasy, Heroic Fantasy
Influenced by: Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Andre Norton, Roger Zelazny and the Mongol destruction of classical civilisation.
Brant leaves his home in the valley realm of Flotyn Bryn-i-Gwyn, for it now lies under the heavy hand of the augeruch.
Away Brant, away. Go east; through the lowlands of Lagelan, the northland steppes; the mountain holds of the mughite where the Khaifite in exile dwells and even to the fabled city of Hrim. Live elsewhere and learn a trade, for the augeruch cannot be fought alone.
Orby is a small town nestling at the edge of Brychon Woods. Princess Aralie is prisoner there and bands of mercenaries lie in wait, hoping to capture her. A knight errant approaches. It's Brant. He's looking for hero work. Simple?
Brychon Woods are said to be the haunt of night-frights and soul-bleeds. Brant comes from a long settled place and considers such talk to be moonshine and fantasy. He meets the seductive Ysarie, who turns his nice, simple world upside down. These events are strangely paralleled in the magical, ancient city of Turalam.
Status 22,000 words done
Title: Without Question
Genre: Crime Fiction, Noir Fiction, Alternate America
Influences: American culture, Raymond Chandler and other Noir fiction, organised crime.
I come from New Goodshaw, the capital of New England and greatest city in the world. In the shady zone between the punters, organised crime and the police, you need to keep your wits about you; that's the world I know and work. Unfortunately I got the crap kicked out of me. When I came to, I was hundreds of miles away, on the rundown outskirts of Gladstone City, the northernmost of the Compromise Cities. I'd been left for dead, I can barely remember who I am, let alone what happened, but when I find out, someone's gonna pay.
Status 6,000 words done
Title: Harjazes
Genre: Detective Fiction, Noir Fiction
Influenced by: Noir fiction, American culture, Indian folklore, Libraries
Bernie Doarne is a private investigator, working in Lellegheny, pop 250,000 (a fictional town) which is in the South-West Appalachians. One day when business is slow, Mrs Dimling engages him to find her missing husband. On the same day, the local newspaper runs a report on the Ridge Runner, a local legend.
Status 9,000 words done
One of the biggest distractions for me is the net, I've set myself a target to do a monthly update, which I'll try to stick to.
Title: Lucky and the Asteroid
Genre: Space Opera, Realistic SF, Science Fiction
Influenced by: Astronomy, Northern Soul, the NHS, Green Cards, Street Drug-Dealers, everyday life in Northern England. This started as an excuse to incorporate bits of astronomy and other space sciences into a Science Fiction story. For authorial reasons it has strong elements of realism. My premise was: What if you couldn't risk being identified as alien and simply wanted to live quietly?
Lucky is a humanoid alien who’s escaped a clash of star-faring civilisations. Her homeworld lies in the galactic core. The battles that destroyed her civilisation were a long time ago, so long that suns have faded to dullness. Few of the places she once knew can now support life. Her people, the flowing people, were destroyed by the measuring people. She’s been on the run since, and exists in slowtime a process that lets her sleep in suspended animation while her ship, the Expedient, ploughs its lonely furrow between the stars. Eventually the Expedient comes upon a back-water of the Milky Way, known locally as Orion’s Belt.
Her dream is to live quietly in Mid-West America. Ideally she'd like to raise a family; but first she needs an identity. She decides to pose as a refugee from the recent Balkans War, who’s fled to live in the UK.
Status 16,000 words done
The others are:
Title: Brant, A Fantasy
Genre: High Fantasy, Heroic Fantasy
Influenced by: Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Andre Norton, Roger Zelazny and the Mongol destruction of classical civilisation.
Brant leaves his home in the valley realm of Flotyn Bryn-i-Gwyn, for it now lies under the heavy hand of the augeruch.
Away Brant, away. Go east; through the lowlands of Lagelan, the northland steppes; the mountain holds of the mughite where the Khaifite in exile dwells and even to the fabled city of Hrim. Live elsewhere and learn a trade, for the augeruch cannot be fought alone.
Orby is a small town nestling at the edge of Brychon Woods. Princess Aralie is prisoner there and bands of mercenaries lie in wait, hoping to capture her. A knight errant approaches. It's Brant. He's looking for hero work. Simple?
Brychon Woods are said to be the haunt of night-frights and soul-bleeds. Brant comes from a long settled place and considers such talk to be moonshine and fantasy. He meets the seductive Ysarie, who turns his nice, simple world upside down. These events are strangely paralleled in the magical, ancient city of Turalam.
Status 22,000 words done
Title: Without Question
Genre: Crime Fiction, Noir Fiction, Alternate America
Influences: American culture, Raymond Chandler and other Noir fiction, organised crime.
I come from New Goodshaw, the capital of New England and greatest city in the world. In the shady zone between the punters, organised crime and the police, you need to keep your wits about you; that's the world I know and work. Unfortunately I got the crap kicked out of me. When I came to, I was hundreds of miles away, on the rundown outskirts of Gladstone City, the northernmost of the Compromise Cities. I'd been left for dead, I can barely remember who I am, let alone what happened, but when I find out, someone's gonna pay.
Status 6,000 words done
Title: Harjazes
Genre: Detective Fiction, Noir Fiction
Influenced by: Noir fiction, American culture, Indian folklore, Libraries
Bernie Doarne is a private investigator, working in Lellegheny, pop 250,000 (a fictional town) which is in the South-West Appalachians. One day when business is slow, Mrs Dimling engages him to find her missing husband. On the same day, the local newspaper runs a report on the Ridge Runner, a local legend.
Status 9,000 words done
One of the biggest distractions for me is the net, I've set myself a target to do a monthly update, which I'll try to stick to.
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