Today I’ m at Rick Gualtieri’s blog, The Poptart Manifesto, discussing the colonization of space. Rick is a prolific author, and a good one. Pop by. :)
Yesterday, I was at Frances Pauli’s Speculative Friction talking about what a space opera is.
Tomorrow, I’ll be at Rachel Morgan’s. The topic is bioenginnering. I’m indebted to Rachel for teaching me the trick about using Powerpoint to create better titles on my book covers. I love how we all share here in the blogosphere.
Stop by and see us.
I’m starting off this bash with a post on Frances Pauli’s blog, Speculative Friction. Discussing the space opera today. I met Frances several years ago on Goodreads. Her first book had just come out, Roarke, which is outstanding. She’s been prolific ever since. Check out her books on her website. If you’ve never read anything by her, you’re missing out. One of her stories will be in the Wandering Weeds: Tales of Rabid Vegetation with The Tumbas, by me, due out later this year. She was one of the talented editors who put the anthology together.
Tomorrow I’ll be at Rick Gualtieri’s blog, The Poptart Manifesto talking about colonizing
space. He’s an amazing writer. Do you know Rick?
Thank you for stopping by to celebrate the launch of my first series. The Backworlds is the first book in the series of the same name. It is space opera, set entirely in outer space. One of my visions of humanity’s future.
The Backworlds
After the war with Earth, bioengineered humans scatter across the
Backworlds. Competition is fierce and pickings are scant. Scant enough
that Craze’s father decides to hoard his fortune by destroying his son.
Cut off from family and friends, with little money, and even less
knowledge of the worlds beyond his own, Craze heads into an uncertain
future. Boarding the transport to Elstwhere, he vows to make his father
regret this day.
The Backworlds is a free read and is currently available in all ebook formats from both Smashwords and Feedbooks. It’s also available from Amazon / AmazonUK / AmazonDE / AmazonFR / AmazonES / AmazonIT for 99 cents.
It will be free there soon and up on Barnes & Noble, iTunes, elsewhere for free. Stay tuned to this blog, my website, or sign up for my newsletter to find out the day it does go free on Amazon and becomes available at those other outlets.
Thank you to my fellow partiers for helping me make a small splash in cyperspace this week. And, thank you to my talented editor, Leigh T. Moore, for guiding The Backworlds to be even better. Any typos are my sole responsibility.
And thanks to these fabulous authors for renting me space on their blogs over the next few weeks.
Fri. May
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In celebration, you all get a free copy of The Backworlds. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
I adore Jane Austen. An internet search for Jane Austen in space turned up the following gems:
Jane Austen: Space Avenger 2588 (BBC3 cut)
A comedy piece filmed by Red Blue Green Productions, as if a clip from a TV series in which the classic writer Jane Austen is a time-travelling battler of evil.
And a space opera series: Lady Doctor Wyre: Jane Austen Space Opera, Book 1 It’s a spicy space opera. Very R rated. By Joely Sue Burkhart
Then I was told about Darkness Shows the Stars. Inspired by Jane Austen’s PERSUASION, FOR DARKNESS SHOWS THE STARS is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it. By Diana Peterfreund.
Have you found an reinvented stories of your favorite authors?
A short film featuring robots. I thought it uber cool.
Robots of Brixton from Kibwe Tavares on Vimeo.
Brixton has degenerated into a disregarded area inhabited by London’s new robot workforce – robots built and designed to carry out all of the tasks which humans are no longer inclined to do. The mechanical population of Brixton has rocketed, resulting in unplanned, cheap and quick additions to the skyline.
The film follows the trials and tribulations of young robots surviving at the sharp end of inner city life, living the predictable existence of a populous hemmed in by poverty, disillusionment and mass unemployment. When the Police invade the one space which the robots can call their own, the fierce and strained relationship between the two sides explodes into an outbreak of violence echoing that of 1981.
With Support from
Kibwe Tavares – Direction, animation, modeling, lighting, texturingetc…
David Hoffman – Photographer Brixton riots archive.hoffmanphotos.com/
Mourad Bennacer – Sound Designer designsonore.tumblr.com/
DJ Hiatus “The Great Insurrection” hiatusmusic.net
For more supercool projects
factoryfifteen.com
Ran into this musical group while roaming around the internet.
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