Iskander: Blog

I have re-edited and reposted After - again. It will appear shortly.

This repost is because the story is continuing. I will be posting Chapter 2 in a couple of days. This is my first explicit sex story and that's a major departure for me. Despite the sex, it is a story. I know (approximately) where it's headed and the sex is not the main game - the story is.

However, don't hang out for regular chapters as this is not my major work in progress. That is a Science Fiction novella (a precursor to the SF novel on hold).

I will write continuation chapters of After from time to time as the muse and opportunity strike, so watch this space.

I have uploaded a repost of Through my Eyes. Again. This was my first writing attempt and needed some attention, despite running through the hands of an editor.

It has been re-edited - losing 10,000 words in the process. The story remains the same - except for a few subtle nuances.

The current version on Bookapy is the same as this re-edited version.

I hope you find this reads better than the original.

Things have been pretty quiet recently, but I will soon start posting snippets from stories set in my new SF universe.
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A human colony ship jumping to the Gleise star system goes seriously awry - arriving 1000 light years beyond the galactic central black hole. Unable to return to earth and with no other survival option, the crew and colonists settle a habitable planet.

Their struggle for survival on an alien world becomes more acute when giant naturally star-faring insectoid worms arrive.

This is one of their breeding planets and humans are not welcome. 

It's been a while since I posted a new story, so I thought I'd update the current writing progress. I have two works in progress - Myr and Mossie Girl.

Myr is Science Fiction, set on a world close to the galactic core where stars average about 0.5 light years apart. A human colony ship suffers a malfunction and ends up at one of these stars, thousands of light years from earth. Unable to get home, they settle on a planet. But the planet is 'owned' by naturally star travelling insectoids, called Wyrms by the humans. Unable to communicate, the two species fight until a girl communicates telepathically with the Wyrms. She becomes the first Mediator.

Myr is a village girl who becomes the Mediator several hundred years after this. Some humans are looking to amend the treaty to give them access to new lands and a Wyrm faction wants the humans off their planet.

I am four chapters into Myr with much world building and planning complete. I'm hoping to have a draft of this ready by Christmas... but life keeps interrupting writing.

Mossie Girl is set in England in WW2 and tells the story of a girl growing up and becoming a draftsperson at de Havilland, working on the DH98 Mosquito. This is an aircraft that has always fascinated me; not as famous as the Spitfire, but the most versatile aircraft in the RAF - one version carried a Molins "6-pounder Class M" cannon fitted in its bomb bay!

This book is on hold as I need to complete quite a bit of research - and that means obtaining quite a few out-of-print books.

I have several other ideas on the back burner (including a much expanded story based on my SoL story After).

Thank you for reading my stories and take care of you and yours,

Iskander
(Robert Hart)

I am dividing my writing time between two novel length projects - the first set in England during WW2 (working title Mossie Girl) and the second is Science Fiction, set on a planet close to the galactic centre (working title Myr and the Wyrms).

Both of these are now about three chapters in and it's time to get some feedback. I hope this will help me decide which one I should prioritise. So, if you sign up to my newsletter, you'll get access to these early chapters - and I'm looking forward to your feedback.

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Both of these will end up here on Stories on Line in the fullness of time.