The Starwalker is a starship with an experimental star-stepping drive. Designed to use the gravity wells of stars to fold space, she can travel between star systems faster than FTL. That is, if they can get it to work. She is run by a sophisticated AI who doesn’t always follow her programming. She has only just been born, and . . .
Part II of The American Book of the Dead – a novel about evolution and the apocalypse, which won Best Fiction at the DIY Book Festival and the Gold IPPY Award for Visionary Fiction. In Part II, the writer of the first novel is commissioned to write another book that may help avert catastrophe, and pave the way for . . .
Out of loneliness, or boredom, maybe, you assign a URL to your heart and share it on the forums and social networks you frequent. The hits trickle in at first, the unusually curious trampling through, poking and prodding, unsure of what they’re seeing. But then the links spread. Everybody wants to see your heart, to have a role in pulling . . .
A communications specialist in the year 2185 is marooned in deep space by his ship’s assistant (a transgenic fish/humanoid). Stranded just outside the horizon of a supermassive black hole, he begins to send messages back to record his actions and observations. A radio astronomer in present-day Antarctica is listening. Something terrible is about to happen. . . .
A group dedicated to maintaining the integrity of the past. Their responsibility is to fix time by reversing the changes made by other time travelers. . . .
The human race is unknowingly caught somewhere in time, and their very existence is at stake. They will need a protector who always has time on their side. This is a novel about how time travel helps save the future of humanity from a fate that no one suspects. . . .
Magestic is the story of a time traveller, sent back from the future to 1985 to try and fix the world. A calamity awaits in 2025, the world needing to take a different course. Wars need to be avoided, certain politicians disgraced before taking office. But the traveller spends most of his time and energy building up a medical rescue . . .
Timely Persuasion follows an anonymous music critic on a quest to save his sister from the relationship that ended her life. After a chance encounter at a bowling alley leaves him with the ability to travel in time, our hero uses his musical knowledge to “blink” through the years attempting to keep the couple apart by any means necessary. But . . .
In the near future a message is received from Proxima Centauri 4.3 light years away. A massive operation is put into action to build a ship to send a crew of six to investigate the signal. They arrive after 150 years only to discover that the signal came from a very obscure and unexpected source. . . .
There is a too-often cited "writing tip" and that is "show, don’t tell." The idea is, you write a scene to "show" readers what you mean, instead of "telling" them.
So, in simplistic terms, you don’t tell them "he was a nice guy," you show a nice guy:
Starwalker is the AI of a new ship, and the story starts with her waking up. However, even before she’s done booting up, she’s already got a fully loaded snark program running.
This is a light, fun scifi tale that I am breezing through. The posts are short, although updated frequently, [more . . .]