GraySapien: Blog

I publish elsewhere as Jack L Knapp, a fairly open secret by now. Graysapien is the pen name I chose when I decided to try writing fiction, in May of 2013.
I was 73 years old, bored because I was forced to remain close to my terminally ill son in case he needed me. It happened occasionally, but working in my shop with noisy saws, lathes, routers, etc, was definitely out! Combat Wizard was the first, and for a while I was also writing Darwin's World and serializing both as soon as I finished a chapter, anywhere from 2500 to 3500 words at a time. I was lucky to find an editor, PCBondsman, and we worked together until his death a year ago.
He worked with others, but he asked his cousin to list me in his epitaph. I still miss the collaboration.
So: Hybrids is novel 25, and at age 83 I think I'm finally done working. Soldier, Teacher, Writer, and in between farmer, horse breeder, woodworker and metalworker, woodcarver, knight, founding baron, MP of the SCA, member of Mensa, the Science Fiction Writers of America, Western Writers of America, and for a year the Writers Guild.
And of those, only my books will remind people twenty years from now that Jack L Knapp once existed.
Think about it, all you who have yet to take that leap of faith...

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!