GraySapien: Blog

Just finished the first draft of Hybrids, the eighth and final book in my New Frontiers series. Still to do: a final edit/revision, then publish it on Bookapy, hopefully by this weekend.
It may be my final book. No promises, I'm considering a western, Hunters, featuring one of the great but little known characters from Southwestern History.
Why westerns? Because I've just about exhausted my reservoir of Holy Shit! SF action scenes.
Really. How do you top rogue planets on collision courses, whales with ESP, and similar stuff, with maybe-science to back it up? If you've read my SF and Fantasy books, you may understand.
But seriously, how can an author top that and still expect to be understood in a scientific context?
Hybrids doesn't surpass those things, but it explores other aspects of future science and engineering, and yes, everything is theoretically possible.
Watch for it, on Bookapy!
And in the meantime, the first books in each series are available here on SOL for free.

I just uploaded Terra, the 7th book in the New Frontiers Series, to Bookapy. I anticipate that it will go live sometime today.
The book contains the usual mix of action and futuristic engineering, science, aliens, artificial intelligence, immortality, and cats in space...okay, that's not all that usual! Nor is business and economics in popular SF, but that's in Terra too.
Also a touch of time travel, a soupçon of pirates, and surprise, surprise, surprise after surprise! It's science fiction for the thinker as well as the fan of action and suspense. I think you'll like it.

The story description and codes say what's necessary, and you can find events like the one the story describes in newspaper headlines.
If you're looking for upbeat stories with happy endings, you may want to pass this one by.

I just finished uploading Pirates, the sixth book in he New Frontiers Series, to Bookapy.
It's long, a Prequel, Prologue, 42 chapters, and an Epilogue, more than 121,000 words in all, but it's packed with surprises, action, emotion, and space adventure leading to a suspenseful end. Oh, and there's humor and if that's not enough, there are also kittens! Sort of.
I think you'll like it!

A friend, Blair Howard (he writes mysteries, mostly; google the name) did the covers for most of the New Frontiers Series, and he left off the information about where the books occur in the series.
In order, they're The Ship, which is here on SOL, then NFI: New Frontiers Inc, NEO: Near Earth Objects, BEMs: Bug Eyed Monsters, MARS: the Martian Republic of Sol, all of which are available now from Bookapy. Which, as most of you know, is part of the SOL group of outlets for writers.
Still to come: Pirates, which I expect to post to Bookapy today or tomorrow, and Terra, which will take another week for me to revise and edit. It will be on Bookapy too.
The final book in the series, Hybrids, is half-written. My mental issues resulted in writer's block, so I put it away for a while and tried to regain my operating vocabulary. I hope that all the revising has done that, and since the plot is complete in concept, I intend to try to finish the book. If/when I do, it will go on Bookapy too.
And now, back to reading the latest installations on SOL!