Afra takes a short cut through the mist and encounters a strange creature which leads her to a man who has been beaten up and left in an alley.
This is the opening scene from The Thunder Egg, a science fiction romance novella. Afra takes a short cut through the mist and encounters a strange creature which leads her to a man who has been beaten up and left in an alley.
In this scene Dru is interrupted when on a raid. He’s chased and hides in asteroids orbiting a planet. That’s when he discovers that the legend about the hoard left by mythical pirate, Drarkghon may actually be true…
In this scene Dru is interrupted when on a raid. He’s chased and hides in asteroids orbiting a planet. That’s when he discovers that the legend about the hoard left by mythical pirate, Drarkghon may actually be true…
The first chapter of For the Greater Good where we meet Celia Whitely, who is not a nice person. Brent and Tian are in for a tough time
The first chapter of For the Greater Good where we meet Celia Whitely, who is not a nice person. Brent and Tian are in for a tough time.
Eye of the Mother is the first book of the Tian and Brent trilogy, when Tian and Brent first meet on a space station.
This is the first book of the Tian and Brent trilogy, when Tian and Brent first meet on a space station. She’s an Imperial agent, he’s a space jockey with a freighter and a pile of debt.
Just lately I’ve been asked questions along the lines of ‘what first attracted you to science fiction?’ I could always come out with sober answers about science and the future, Asimov, Arthur C Clarke yadayadayada. But the moment I fell in love with science fiction? Spaceships.
Continue reading “Spaceships are sexy”Searching for a suitable location in the Milky Way for my Dryden stories led me to look at science
I was a science fiction reader before I dipped my toe into the vast ocean of romance. More than that, I like space opera. Yes, I’m a Star Wars fan, despite the rather ordinary science. What attracts me is the aliens and the space ships and the amazing different worlds out there. And after all, with current estimates for the number of habitable worlds in the Milky Way – those with liquid water – at up to five billion (New Scientist Nov 2020), why not?
Continue reading “Where science meets story”the Crimson Lady was a pirate ship that preyed on the shipping lanes for seven years or so, when she disappeared without a trace
Apart from reading books, I also write them. My science fiction books tend to involve a lot of made-up history and some sort of mystery (with a romance chucked in). That’s how The Search for the Crimson Lady developed. I suppose it’s a little bit like the legend of the Flying Dutchman, a legendary ghost ship which was said to never be able to make port, doomed to sail the oceans forever (except in a space setting with a few tweaks).
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