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On Writing Excuses, Dan Wells explained how he gets around it. I think the quote goes something like "Take something simple and explain the heck out of it. Then take something complex and don't explain it at all."

By explaining the heck out of the simple thing, you establish the reader's (or in your case the player's) trust in you to serve up a trustworthy world for them to explore. They will then own the complex thing in full faith, knowing that you have things under control.

Edit: Link to the transcripts of the episode with link to the podcast inside. I almost got the qoute right too. http://www.writingexcuses.com/transcripts/1-24/

A 1 kilogram projectile at 10% lightspeed, is equal to about 7 Hiroshima atomic bombs.

Below are several websites to help with the calculations.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/relativistic-ke

https://www.justintools.com/unit-conversion/energy.php?k1=megajoules&k2=hiroshima-bomb-explosion

Motivations and reasons for a war would and should be different depending on who is giving them. It happens with human wars, so much more likely with an alien society.

You could develop the motivations (or lack of) as seen and understood by the humans but also explore the reasons in the different alien minds and society. In the same vein, you could explore the interpretation and answers a soldier or a civilian of both sides gives for the cause of war.

Reasons for aliens can really be anything. In your case, looking at how most hive like species behave in our planet, a disproportionate response to a percieved threat could be your alien motivation for (starting the) war, like when a full bee hive or anthill goes berserk against a small threat, just in case.

edit: I found this online free course that might help you understand wars: https://www.coursera.org/course/warparadoxes I very much agree with the premise of the course, unlike other comments in this thread, I see war as an inseparable trait of humankind. Be it now or in a distant space-faring future, we humans really have to make a rational effort not to go to war, it's in our nature. I can imagine that other intelligent species would be like this too.

Well since you've asked to not comment on the unreadable text and comment on the story, we'll jump right in.

General: Your story is poor. If this is a chapter, it's incomplete. We don't even know the name of the main character until you attempt the first line of dialogue. The characters are unmemorable and there's nothing unique in your story. It's as if you got an idea, but never spent no effort to flesh out the idea into a story, which is only now memorable for its terrible lack of grammar. You also seem to think that ships in space share a lot in common with marine barracks - they don't. Shooting up someone else's ship is generally poor form and there's zero information that your main character is anything other than an entity that may have seen battle, loose knowledge of the legality of drugs, and propensity to sleep through cargo transfers between ships. You need to learn story structure.

Specific: A body does not grow cold at instant of death unless freezing is the cause. A laser does not have rounds, at least not the way you've failed to describe it. I'd recommend a copy of Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style," or at least reading the guidelines of this subreddit.

First published in 1912, more than a century ago. Classic portal fantasy SF.

Burroughs was the man. More than 100 novels, all of them pretty much the same formula plot, but what a plot! Fish-out-of-water, a man finds himself tossed into an alien culture, and has to survive by his wits and fighting skills. Often he has the advantage of military or martial training, and sometimes, as with John Carter, a special power of some sort, such as Carter's super strength.

And always there's a woman, a damsel in distress. They fall in love at first sight, but then there's a misunderstanding, the woman feels she's been scorned, and then she's immediately abducted by bad characters and whisked away. From that point on, it's all about saving the woman. Boy-gets-girl, boy-loses-girl, boy-gets-girl-back.

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Project Gutenberg has many Burroughs novels in the public domain, available for free download as ebooks. The entire Barsoom series, a few Tarzan novels, and don't overlook the wonderful medieval fantasy The Outlaw of Torn.

Thank you, this is great stuff! The second scenario in particular, her trying to alert civilians in a sneaky way … I’m going to stew on that.

This is a sequel to my first novel, Jungfruresan, available in Swedish as audiobook or ebook exclusively through Storytel.

https://www.storytel.com/se/sv/books/jungfruresan-s1e1-311212?gclid=CjwKCAjwz_WGBhA1EiwAUAxIcU1fjvY6R4vCoO1JHVgsmvIST5lpXX3YnlvOUejZJxfMa8Lj3HFHixoC6x0QAvD_BwE

If you use constant acceleration there are several calculators out there, such as this nice one I've been using. Just plug in the distance and the acceleration and it tells you the time to get there.

I did not mean to be dismissive of your efforts. It sounds like great work you are doing. You've chosen a hard path for sure.

I'm sure you'll find people willing to play your game. Andy Weir put a ton of research into The Martian and some of his readers did check his math. In fact, he made the research into a sort of collaborative exercise by posting drafts on his blog and including reader feedback into revisions.

And don't get me wrong, when I write that "zero readers will check your math" I don't mean that readers will not call bullshit on the impossible or plain incorrect, but simply that no one will worry about significant digits (like +/- 12 hours on a planetary orbit).

Speaking of games, you may want to check out Universe Sandbox 2. I played around a bit with the previous version and it has some interesting physics simulation going on.

There's a new version of Universe Sandbox that I've been working on over the last 4 years. Our goal is to address all of the problems facing the original version, including the stability issue you mentioned. Universe Sandbox ² has been written in a new engine from the ground up and improves upon the original in almost every way. (although the tools for creating binary planets in orbit of a star still need many improvements)

To be clear... you're asking about two habitable planets in orbit of each other in orbit around a star, right? In order for that to be stable over time... the orbits would need to be quite large.

Oh man, that's a good question. I wish I could give you a concrete answer on the spot, but orbital mechanics isn't my specialty.

It all depends on the size and placement of the stars. I'd check the video on that channel about binary star systems (the "Anti-Tattoine" model), crib his numbers, make them as close together as possible, and then do the math to figure it what the periods look like. If they only pass each other once every 100,000 years it may not be viable.

If you really want, you could buy a copy of Universe Sandbox, which let's you model physically-sound celestial bodies and star systems. $25 to nerd out on astrophysics is not a bad deal, plus you're supporting indie software devs, which is always a plus. Depending on the scope of your universe, you could have a completely consistent model of everything in it. One of the creators is a Redditor — /u/DanDixon — and he has answered questions from worldbuilders about it. Check his post history.

Edit: there's also Space Engine, which doesn't let you model systems (rather it uses information about our own universe), but it does let you stand on the surface of any celestial body and look out at the heavens, as well as pilot starships from place to place, so you can have an idea of what it feels like for the people in your setting. You could see if you could find a star system that looks promising in there. Oh yeah, and it's free.

Sorry - It was written in Gambas on Linux and never finished. The problem I had was that I wanted to tell a 'story' through the game and was finding it too limited. I ended up writing (SciFi & Fantasy) and ended up here. I did do a lot of research and long hours of thinking about how things would work. It was a good precursor to writing though, so time well spent.

Azgaar's lovely online map generator with a great subreddit: /r/FantasyMapGenerator/

Amazon link for anyone interested, also available on Kindle.

Patricia T. O’Connor’s Woe is I: The Grammarphobe's Guide to Better English in Plain English. I can’t speak to the new features of the fourth edition but the book itself is a great resource. And most importantly, it’s very readable. Highly recommend.

I personally recommend reading "How to write science fiction and fantasy" by Orson Scott Card.

Lots of great advice in there, esp. about what NOT to do, rookie mistakes, etc.

And as a sci fi author, don't feel shy with starting with fanfiction, I started there. (No, you can't read it. Too embarrassing ��)

TVTropes is also a great resource for writing, but it requires great willforce not to get sucked into opening 100s of tabs ��

On Writing by Stephen King also Danse Macabre also by King. Danse is extremely outdated but has some great commentary on 50s/60s scfi!

On Writing, is a fantastic writing book. You also get sort of an inside look into the man, the myth, the legend himself and how he writes and the process he goes through.

Oh man Stephen King's On Writing is amazing. It is NOT a "write like horror master Stephen King!" book. It actually outlines his life as a writer, his daily processes and schedule (and the processes and schedules of others) and gives really solid advice about learning how to create your own work ethic from examples he has done and seen.

My novel uses an unearth-like planet. I put my species under the surface. I want people to read it, but alas it has zero purchases.

Oh well... I have a sequel almost done also because suffering loves fresh pain.

...and a third book that I wrote first during quarantine.

All involve Earth. It's just the first one where I explore another planet and culture.

Here's another example. Spacecraft of the First World War (Amazon link) is a fictional reference work in the style of a Jane's Fighting Ships kind of book. Author works from what if Wells' War of the Worlds had actually happened, and the nations of Earth reverse-engineered the Martians' technology from the wreckage of their war machines. Lovely art and a good read.

So that kind of book can be done successfully.

If you're after a mystery that Sherlock Holmes might have found daunting, some weird ETs, and a trip to their strange planet, try my debut novel Wistbourne's Legacy - on Kindle. I'm plugging again after uploading some minor improvements (first published via KDP back in October)....

....Especially if you're a John Wyndham fan ... or H G Wells ... or Arthur C Clarke.

My series Aestus is currently on sale for $0.99 each ($1.98 total)!

“…at the level of…Dune” - IHeartSci-fi

“unputdownable” - Chris Durston, Skullgate Media

An underground city, built centuries ago to ride out the devastating heat. A society under attack. And a young solar engineer whose skills may be the key to saving her city…if she doesn’t get herself killed first.

4.61 Goodreads average!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08GLK7V7F

Hello ... any John Wyndham fans here?

I ask because I just uploaded my first - and so far only - novel via KDP. (Click here). It draws some inspiration (but not plagiarism) from Wyndham's Midwich Cuckoos (aka Village of the Damned). Partly retro stuff but with a modern twist.

And fans of more recent Hard SciFi might find something of interest...

No idea how good or bad my writing skills are - so feel free....

Hey ! I published my first novel, Beyond the Mind, on amazon. Its an Adult fiction that could fit into the Sci-fi realm with elements of robots, AI and new technologies and psychological romance as the story hovers around the human mind, love and complexities in human's relationships. I would be so happy to recieve your comments about it.

Here is the synopsis; It's Toronto, 2031. Ralph Adrienne is leading an aspiring project to design personality changer implants when he faces a new threat to his career. A change in priorities would impede his project, as the board of directors is planning to invest in a chipset that could record and manipulate memories. As the R&D Chief, he has to investigate the new project's scope, which leads him to  get one implanted in his brain. The new chipset would soon change his perception of the world and shed light on the darkest side of his mind.

Amazon Link

My book, Canis: Unrest Amid a Sea of Stars is a character driven, thrilling outer space sci-fi epic telling a tale of family, friendship, and revolution in a dystopian future.

Canis: Unrest Amid a Sea of Stars

You should pay your fee and make nice with the librarians. In the meantime: carry some silver, oil your locks with sage and replace any old lightbulbs in your house.

https://www.gutenberg.org/

Amazon sell old paperbacks for pennies.

I wrote a cyberpunk novel. Check it out and give me your opinion if it’s cyberpunk enough. https://www.amazon.com/Redemption-Revenge-Nicholas-Catron-ebook/dp/B07XRHP11Q/ref=mp_s_a_1_5?crid=3HRLJ55BXYM6K&keywords=nicholas+catron&qid=1664748809&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIyLjIwIiwicXNhIjoiMC4wMCIsInFzcCI6IjAuMDAifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=nichola...

Hi friends! I've got a great short on amazon right now and it's FREE today!

It's a queer sci fi about an android searching the cosmos for her lost princess

https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0BDT8XMK4/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_EGPGA8Q3MCSRPRZRCKBW

Hi everyone, I'm Andrew Second. I started writing some years ago on HFY, and have since broadened my original stories into an all original novel and soon-to-be series.

The first two stories are When Deathworlders Meet and the sequel, When Deathworlders Visit.

In between these two, the full 700-page or so book Exigent Circumstances takes place. You can get a special signed copy by supporting the indiegogo campaign here: www.indiegogo.com/projects/exigent-circumstances/x/18749689/
Or you can get a regular edition copy or e-book of Exigent Circumstances here:
www.amazon.com/Exigent-Circumstances-Book-Path-Exigents-ebook/dp/B0B66CCV7B/

Finally, I am currently publishing When Deathworlders Hide each week on HFY as well. It's an all-new story which takes place after the book.

Hello there!

So, I'm somewhat active on the HFY subreddit and I've started editing the early stuff so it's a better read and submitting it to Triumvirate. From V2 onward, I'll be in every book. In fact, I'm literally the first story in the anthology. It's also free on Kindle Unlimited.

Merchant of Death and the follow up stories are all canon to my Sword and Shield of Humanity setting that my novels will be set in. Merchant of Death and the rest technically take place after Book 2 of S&S.

Find the anthology here.

Nightmares never go away... You may chase them away. You can think you killed them... You may stop believing and forget them, but Nightmares never go away... Nightmares don't die... They just wait...

https://www.amazon.com/Nightmares-Point-April-Kuper-Winterblade1980/dp/1645319989/

The book is about a monstrous alien named Embrance trying to change his species deathly eating habits. It is a Sci-fi fantasy adventure with an array of emotions and colorful characters and perspectives. It isn't a light read. This is a healthy size Sci-fi dark fantasy and a plus-size adventure. Warning: contains some adult themes and some gore.

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Yay book two is up on the Amazons.

I thought the first book was a ride, this kinda took it to the next level. I seriously thought I wouldn't make an August 1 deadline. But thankfully I have an amazing editor and a penchant for making good friends who give good advice.

Anyway...

Here's the link and blurb! I would have posted eye candy....but yeah mobile reddit lol!

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B88D9QP6/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?crid=3W1NV1PZ8GH6E&keywords=mercenary+marauder&qid=1659362096&sprefix=mercenary+marauder%2Caps%2C162&sr=8-2

Blurb:

The Mercenary Mage is back.

Reeve has continued his war against the gods, building his empire and gathering his forces against the storm to come. They have built new ships, developed new technologies, and brought on new recruits. His friends and budding family are now in a better position than ever to create a galaxy safe for their own. Even if that means conquering it in its entirety.

Even with the developments on the material and science front, Reeve has been found lacking in his war against the gods and their machinations for the total annihilation of the universe. With this revelation, he has dedicated himself even further toward developing his magical might. But his discoveries may open a new front in his wars. This time, however, the most dangerous enemy may turn out to be himself.

Between massive space battles and quiet infiltrations of enemy locations, Reeve and his allies will find themselves facing off against old enemies as well as making new ones. As new allies join his cause, and old ones depart, the Mage will find himself questioning every action he takes even as he moves himself and his budding empire into the future.

Watch the Mage as he brings his Marauders to extinguish a universe of tyranny and evil, even as those working in the background continue to reveal themselves and their machinations.

Even the Gods fear what lies in the shadows.

My sci-fi book, I NANO, came out this week.

After nuclear armageddon, the low-caste masses live in a digital utopia while their bodies starve, kept alive and complacent by nano-bots and AI implants. Mazz’s AI glitches, making him highly unpopular at high school. Accidents follow him wherever he goes.
It turns out that his glitchy AI causes nano-bots to misbehave around him. Can Mazz learn to control his abilities before a group of warriors hunts him down?

https://smile.amazon.com/I-NANO-J-F-Lawrence-ebook/dp/B0B27W282R

The paperback cover is finally done and on Amazon! Now to figure out audiobooks lol...

https://www.amazon.com/Mercenary-Mage-Sundered-Divinity-Novel-ebook/dp/B0B1TC898T/ref=sr\_1\_1?crid=VZRFYFRF5PRL&keywords=mercenary+mage&qid=1657315271&sprefix=%2Caps%2C111&sr=8-1

The great Script: A short Story

Genre: science fiction , mystery

By: H.Saltsman

Des:Sprout Hunter had been a pioneer for the new world party in his youth and after years of suffering for the cause he gets his reward as an honorary citizen of the small City of New Heath (the capital of the new world party) where he discovers a shocking fact about his new apartment. This story is a short blend of a scientific thriller in an almost fascist society with subtle and keen details for the watchful eye.

Amazon Kindle

Hi. I'm super excited about the release of my first novel, "I, NANO" on Kindle coming out on July 5th. If you like young adult Sci-Fi books like Ready Player One and superpowers like X-Men, this might be interesting for you:

https://smile.amazon.com/I-NANO-J-F-Lawrence-ebook/dp/B0B27W282R

If you want a free Author's copy, send me a message. I'd love more honest reviews.

It's ironic, because white collar workers are also probably also stressed about being replaced by robots but they want robots to do all the boring stuff in their job for them.

Interesting additional reading (though it's dense): Breaking Things at Work: The Luddites Are Right About Why You Hate Your Job. Amazon link but I'd recommend a library as it's not a book I want to reread.

The box set of my steampunk series Tales From Undersea has just launched on Amazon! In addition to the first 3 books, it also contains 3 exclusive bonus shorts.

Imagine…in your mind’s eye you suddenly see the next two minutes of your life playing out…it’s not pretty. Fact of the matter, left unchanged this will be the end of you. Except you have a precious two minutes to change that outcome and live to fight another day!

Please check out my book, Two Minute Warning https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B37QJSKS/

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Here's the pitch.

Boy meets girl—on a primitive planet spiraling into political oppression and chaos. And then a coup happens.

Here's the blurb.

When idled construction worker and ne’er do well gambler Mike Hayden stumbles over anti-slavery crusader Theresa Seyboldt being mugged in a dark alley one night, their destinies become intertwined forever.
Caught up in a web of deadly danger and political intrigue, they quickly find themselves in the cross-hairs of a psychotic madman, trapped at ground zero in a bloody coup d’etat. Desperate to get Theresa's two adopted children to safety as the situation spirals out of control, the two lovers must confront an age-old truth. When unadulterated evil goes on a rampage, rational human beings have a choice to make; submit to a fate worse than death—or fight like cornered rats.

Where Madmen Rule is a headlong dive off the high board into a churning sea of psychopathic tyrants, political oppression, and state-sponsored terrorism. There has never been a more relevant time to read it.

And here's the link.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00RY9MH06

If you like it, don't forget to leave a nice review. Dankon!!

My novel, The Last 0-Day is available on Amazon and free this week from 6/9/22 to 6/11/22.

The Last 0-Day on Amazon

The Last 0-Day on preview on Wattpad

Quick Synopsis

The promised cyberpunk future hasn’t come to pass, with implants stagnating at glorified contacts and hearing aids. Until now. Following a police officer with a death wish, a soldier atoning for his birth, and a savant who wants to see the next sunrise, The Last 0-Day is an action-packed adventure about the start of the cybernetics revolution. It’s cyberpunk meets Malazan Book of the Fallen with a dash of cli-fi.

I just self-published on Kindle the first e-book of my three-part series of flash fiction anthologies:

Humanity's Next Steps

Only got a few minutes here and there to read a thought-provoking story in your busy life? Then, Humanity’s Next Steps is for you!

Humanity’s Next Steps anthology covers our potential transcendence with VR, implants, uploading consciousness, cloning, genetics, cybernetics, and much more…
With over 100 stories to read through at your disposal, your mind will be captivated and riveted by the characters, the scenarios, and the various dilemmas they face.
Grab a copy of Humanity’s Next Steps today! Get ready for your imagination to be supercharged!

I hope you enjoy reading the stories as much as I enjoyed writing them! 🤓👍

My novel, Injustice, is a great soft scifi read for anyone looking to get lost in a new world. Here's the hook:

Welcome to the Crater, the most feared prison in all the Civilized Worlds. Filling the entirety of a hollowed moon, the facility hosts millions of the worst criminals ever convicted. The upper levels house master thieves, insane terrorists, and mass murderers. The lower levels are home to monsters better left unmentioned. The prison uses insurmountable technology to ensure its impenetrable security. No being has ever escaped.

After a devastating personal tragedy, David Holcomb is incarcerated in the infamous prison. A simple diplomat and family man, David now wishes only to wallow in grief, but the Crater has other plans. Encountering colorful cellmates, vengeful prison gangs, and other convicts beyond his imagination, David will discover that maybe life can continue after great loss… if he can survive the Crater first.

Check it out: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09X693QD3

My debut novel, Pallas Lost, has been out for exactly one month today! Thanks to the support of my family, friends, and Reddit, I saw some pretty decent sales. Most importantly, more people have had a chance to read my work and get a glimpse into the universe of the Fifteen Systems.

"When Ensign Vasyli Nikonov’s ship happened upon a drifting derelict, he had no idea how drastically his life was about to change. Not only had the crew been killed in an impossible manner, the Captain of the ship left a reference to the child’s tale of the lost colony of Pallas.
Elsewhere in the Fifteen Systems, scholar Eliot Charter gamely starts his own fool’s quest to prove that Pallas is real. Armed with nothing but naivety and knowledge, he hires mercenary Captain Skadi Ulfsdöttir to help him on his journey.
Things quickly spiral out of hand, leaving them all wondering if Pallas was truly Lost..."

Check out <em>Pallas Lost</em> on Amazon today! Available on Kindle, Paperback, Hardcover, and Kindle Unlimited!

Field of Night, new Sci-Fi book, now out on Amazon KU!

Amazon

An extraterrestrial visitor announces the chance of a lifetime. Be taught extraordinary powers, see the stars, and win rewards beyond your dreams. Will you be chosen?

The world is abuzz, but Samer hardly has time for pipedreams. One final exam stands in the way of graduating college and starting the job he needs to pay for his mother’s medical care.

Yet, the morning of his test, the enigmatic interstellar emissary appears to him, an offer in hand. The terms of the alien’s entreaty are simple. Live and train on a deluxe space station and battle other recruits for the chance to join the alien’s retinue. But why Samer, of all people? Is there a catch? For the chance to save his family, Samer must put his doubts aside and accept.

Samer’s journey reveals it’s not just him, but all of Earth in the crosshairs of greedy galactic forces. Can he find a way to outwit his duplicitous alien benefactor . . . or will he fail and relegate humanity to a footnote in cosmic history?

Finally published on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/Mercenary-Mage-Sundered-Divinity-Novel-ebook/dp/B0B1TC898T/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=mercenary+mage&amp;qid=1653362098&amp;s=digital-text&amp;sr=1-1

The editing and formatting took long enough, yeesh!

This might be helpful

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I have like-powered lasers in my 'verse, but I can recommend a super gritty, hard SF series that first gave me the idea for them. Read the two books in the (sadly incomplete) Human Reach trilogy by Jonathan Lumpkin. It's about a speculative fiction war between the West and China in about 150 years from now, when many neighboring star systems have been explored.

Lasers are and missiles are the most important weapons in all spaceships in his verse. He's got several battles where lasers provide covering artillery fire from orbit against infantry on the ground, and it is fucking terrifying. In his space battles, kinetics tend to take a secondary role as area-denial / suppressive enfilade fire. He has a big catalog of ships from the two books on his website. Here, for example, is the ship his main character is on board during Book 1.

My first novel, Fallen, has just been published. It's on Kindle and Kindle Unlimited.

(And I'll be willing to give a free copy in exchange for an honest review on Amazon)

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09XLTXHRK/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_AY8D7CDVMHAV9012840N

An Adventure Into the Stars and the PTSD Mind

Intelligence Officer Brendan Sean Murphy has served his country on the Middle East and Central Asia battlefields. However, his hard-won successes overseas came at the cost of failures at home. These events have drained his soul, leaving him racked with PTSD.

However, his life changes when he intervenes to stop an anti-alien terrorist attack on the subway. Now, he is thrust into interstellar politics with the government naming him an intelligence attaché to the Sabia, a race that closely guards its own secrets.

Right-wing militias, corrupt politicians, and countries seeking military aid from the Sabia challenge Brendan’s mission. On top of this, a medical mystery complicates the balance. Brendan’s only chance at success involves accepting the impossible and unutterable. Only then can he learn the secrets in this Fallen world.

Just launched my first book Helios with a good friend/co-author of mine and am really excited to share it!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09Z79Q8MM

Raised in the militant society of Argos, Sammy always dreamed of descending below the planet Theia’s surface to eliminate the aggressive demons that nearly wiped out the colony years in the past. When she’s disgraced and expelled from a prestigious military academy, Sammy abandons her clan to make a name for herself and restore her honor.

Devan Seran is a talented but awkward engineer who’s found his place maintaining the aging infrastructure of the floating city of Helios. His comfortable but ordinary life is forever disrupted when he discovers information about an approaching catastrophe that threatens to destroy his home. When the information is covered up by his superiors, Devan decides to prove the threat is real and prevent the disaster.

Hired by Devan, Sammy escorts him into the abandoned original colony to find the evidence he needs. Facing the constant danger from the harsh environment, savage demons, and Devan’s powerful employer, they struggle in their efforts to find the truth in the untamed tunnels below the city of Helios.

Aloha,

My friend just wrote a sci Fi book and I wanted to share it here since he hasn't yet. It's pretty fun, I finished it in about two days. It's like a sci Fi adventure comedy and I think well worth $3. I Guess We're Heroes

Hi there! After working on it for 5 years, I've finally self-published my first novel on Kindle. It's a dystopian tale about what it means to be human, set against the backdrop of a fascist government. Its only a couple of dollars and around 260 pages. Check it out! https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09YYF7HQS

Sibling Gods - The Beginning

An action packed sci-fi novel that explores the idea that evolution is real and humans can evolve into powerful energy beings with godlike powers if they master 5 attributes.

Attributes can also be inherited as occurred in many mythological stories. In our modern times, 4 children have each inherited a different attribute from their father, the god who goes by the name Ahmad. They have been using their abilities to help the government. Now that the fifth child has been conceived, gods and men are trying to kill them.

They escape to a remote island and are trained to master all the abilities. As the fifth child is born, the story culminates in an astounding 5 way battle for their very lives!

Sample pages can be read on Amazon

[HUGE MILESTONE] After 2 Years of writing, I finally self-published my debut novel as a Kindle ebook: A Part 1 of 7 Young-Adult Science-Fantasy Series Involving Video Games &amp; the Multiverse!

"Kieren The Game Blogger" starts in 2016 in an alternate universe that seems eerily similar but still different from ours. Esports are more mainstream than how we see them today. It is mainstream enough for teenagers to create an online following within the industry before they've even attended high school; This is very much the case for our main character. Technology has advanced to where evil organizations possess holograms and laser blasters. Not to mention, video game characters cross over into this universe our characters inhabit, confirming the existence of the multiverse.

A father abandoned his family with a dark secret; Ten years later, his son receives unexplainable powers. To the former esports gamer Kieren Freeman aka Kieren The Game Blogger, this now perfectly sums up life. The 14-year-old gamer and his classmates - a glasses-wearing bookworm, a girl-obsessed daredevil along with his older brother who's the complete opposite in nature - experience an adventure only seen in science-fiction: video game characters crossing over into the real world, and an evil organization who are deadset on destroying the universe. The only thing standing in this organization's way is this small group of Texas high schoolers.

This is my first book. My second and third books are being edited (All stand alone books)...but since this is a promotional thread, I wanted to throw it out there.

If you read it, good or bad, please leave a review!

"Titanium Dreams"

William Shepherd is a cynical, near broken detective looking for absolution in a city built atop of the ashes of NYC decades after a massive war. His fierce determination to find who murdered his brother is only equal to his wanting to be left alone and with no entanglements from the family business, Shepherd Cybernetics. He has one small problem though - William is no longer just a human. Augmented with cybernetic implants that keep him alive after a near fatal accident following the murder of his brother, William is different. He has been “upgraded” and this helps him in his unrelenting search for the truth. Scouring through the digital networks with an artificially intelligent environment named NOVA, Detective William Shepherd searches daily for any piece of information that might give him a clue as to who murdered his brother and why. Along the way, he is partnered with a family relic from a long ago past that was seemingly forgotten: a militaristic first generation Self-Aware-Tactical-Android which towers over a foot taller than him; an android who has also developed several personality quirks from watching too many “historical archives” while being in storage. With his new partner, William must navigate the seedy underside of the city he works in to find the answers he seeks. Clinging to the hope that one day he will bring peace to his brother’s memory, as well as peace within himself, William realizes he must face his dark family past as he confronts the reality that nothing is ever as it seems.

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Sci-Fi (Cyberpunk-ish) Murder Mystery - &quot;Titanium Dreams&quot;

Available for pre-order, my debut novel Pallas Lost!

While on a seemingly routine mission, Ensign Vasyli Nikonov finds himself the lone officer on duty when a derelict ship shows up on the scanners. When he and a superior board it, they find the crew killed in an impossible manner, and a dead Captain who ended his life scrawling the name “Pallas” on the floor with his blood.

Elsewhere, young scholar Eliot Charter impatiently helps the public as part of his duties. But the moment he can, he races to follow his passion: secretly researching whether Pallas exists or is simply a myth. His musings about the history of humanity and the cultural hatred of AI, lead him forward. He leaves home searching for a missing recording and his decision to go out into the universe changes everything.

Together our crew, along with Captain Skadi Ulfsdöttir, her co-pilot Mattias Warner and their ship the Ruby Shift, must race against time, a mysterious rogue organization, and corrupted government officials to find the answers that could save them all. With maybe a stop or two for the best mole this side of the universe.

Pallas Lost https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WMBHFVG/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_0A0RD5REBBY6ZP55QSVW

Time Travellers of Ganymede

NEW SciFi for IndieApril and now available on Amazon and KindleUnlimited.
470 years after the War
A Corporate Intelligence Bureau agent is assigned to infiltrate a group that claims to be building a time machine.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WZJT7SD

ROGUE

In two hundred years from now, humanity is recovering slowly from a near ecological disaster, created by the exploding post-industrial Information Age, by pushing heavy industry and mining into space. However, as they give up focusing on the larger universe, a rogue planet comes barreling into the solar system to remind them of their fragility in the greater cosmos. Orianna and Maddox must navigate these difficult centuries as they discover a future beyond anything either of them could have expected.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09VCNJN9P

Three years actually.

Three years between the adoption of standardized time in Zurich (1893) and Einstein's thought experiment for relativity (1896).

If you're interested, I'd recommend "The Order of Time", by Carlo Rovelli

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Rovelli

https://www.amazon.com/Order-Time-Carlo-Rovelli/dp/073521610X

I'll try to summarize:

1. Prior to trains, each town defined time subjectively, based on the position of the sun.

2. But with the advent of trains, and to maintain schedules, an absolute time was needed.

3. They first proposed a single universal time for the whole world (Greenwich mean time, GMT). This didn't go over well for obvious reasons, and eventually lead to time-zones.

4. In 1893 the clocks in Vienna switched to time-zones (just 3 years before Einstein's famous thought experiment).

Einstein didn't pull Relativity out of thin air.

There was plenty of mounting evidence that time couldn't be absolute (thermodynamics and the speed of light).

DARK MATTER NOW AVAILABLE: The Intergalactic Alliance trembles! While Collin William's recruitment saved Managarus, the Industry held the advantage for many months, crushing Alliance defenses and striking fear into hearts throughout the galaxy. Now that the Alliance has seized control over the oldest monarchy in the galaxy, Collin and his friends question if the Alliance can even be trusted. Time is ticking and Collin’s rash behavior has landed him in trouble once again, with even those closest to him concerning over his motives. However, the time has come for Collin to stop the Industry once and for all. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TRMQMC8

I'm giving away the second book to my "consumerist dystopian hopepunk" sci-fi series:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07XFNY4LB

It can be enjoyed without reading the the first book.

Here's the Blurb:
Unique Miranda, after escaping servitude on Sycorax, finds herself on the trading moon of Caliban plotting to break out her friend Ferdinandra, who was left behind. With help of friends, the brilliant siren, Zo Spunkmeyer, the ace gamer/pilot Toneo and his feminist soulbot companion, and a shaky alliance with a pirate, Unique is able to mount a rescue despite the betrayals of a crime-boss. Along the way she falls deeper into trouble, uncovers dangerous secrets, and struggles with living in her new future.

I see that the best 3 (Expanse, Honor Harrington, Starship Troopers) have already been hit.

So here are a few others.

• John Ringo's Troy Rising. Near-future encounter with alien "stargate" leads to humanity's exposure to the galactic community at large, led by someone who read way too much science fiction. Bonus points for managing to stay decently hard in a universe with FTL travel and sentient AI. Inspired by (and non-canonically considered to be part of)...
• Schlock Mercenary. King of sci-fi webcomics. One strip per day, every day, without missing (even through power outages and house fires) from June 12, 2000 to its end on July 24, 2020. Early art is a bit janky (artist recommends starting at Book 10). Focuses a lot on the ground combat, but there is a lot of space warfare, tactics, and military infrastructure as well.
• Scott Westerfeld's Risen Empire. Great extrapolation of tech in ways that make it seem fantastical, but can be tied directly into existing military weapons or devices (e.g. remotely-operated drones, they're just the size of sand and travel at relativistic speeds).

I answered the question of "what if angels and demons were aliens?"

After 13 years of trying, I finally finished and published my first book!

It's about angels, demons, and gods as advanced civilizations in a multiverse full of them.

It comes with a free preview on Amazon. If you don't live in Canada, just search "Tsel" on your local Amazon.

The genre is science fantasy.

95k words.

https://www.amazon.ca/Tsel-Shadow-Death-Pouya-Sattari-ebook/dp/B09TKJ1HS1/ref=sr_1_2?crid=25IURDG1NLRH9&amp;keywords=tsel&amp;qid=1646688155&amp;sprefix=tsel%2Caps%2C75&amp;sr=8-2

Just finished listening/reading "Points of Origin" by E.S. Fein! Very introspective work delving into self, existence, cosmic relations, and transhumanism. The story follows a stud pilot that is brazenly against the times (religious order called the New Covenant is main political power in the world) as he is gay in a world that shuns LGBTQ+. Events spiral out of control as he is jettisoned through space/time on a cosmic adventure in search of.. points! Won't say any more but I definitely recommend reading it!

This is a self published work by the author, has some short stories that are worth reading/listening to as well, even being an unknown I think the story is fantastic! Check out his book:

https://www.amazon.com/Points-Origin-S-Fein-ebook/dp/B07HV39VL9/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=

Just finished listening/reading "Points of Origin" by E.S. Fein! Very introspective work delving into self, existence, cosmic relations, and transhumanism. The story follows a stud pilot that is brazenly against the times (religious order called the New Covenant is main political power in the world) as he is gay in a world that shuns LGBTQ+. Events spiral out of control as he is jettisoned through space/time on a cosmic adventure in search of.. points! Won't say any more but I definitely recommend reading it!

This is a self published work by the author, has some short stories that are worth reading/listening to as well, even being an unknown I think the story is fantastic! Check out his book:

https://www.amazon.com/Points-Origin-S-Fein-ebook/dp/B07HV39VL9/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=

I have an epic military science fiction series that you might be interested in. Here's the blurb for the first book:

"Pavel Marino commands one of the last remaining squadrons in the final days of an unwinnable interstellar conflict. He must now spirit his government’s leadership across the stars to a forgotten planet whose inhabitants were believed destroyed in an ancient war. There, far from the reaches of a ruthless foe, they can regroup their forces in order to fight again.

But his ships were never designed to travel such a distance. Along the way many difficult decisions are made so that a few can survive. And when they finally reach their anticipated refuge, they discover that the planet is already inhabited by billions of humans with industrial-level technology, driving cars with internal combustion engines, flying airplanes with propellers, and waging a brutal world war.

Desperate, and with nowhere else to go, the weary space-farers make contact with their primitive cousins. They must now make a fateful decision: Should they strive for peaceful coexistence or domination?"

Here's the link if you're interested... check it out!

https://www.amazon.com/Ashes-Dead-World-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B08NTK4JS5

I just found out that my book Fire of the Dark triad was nominated for the BSFA (The British Science Fiction Association) award! It took me 5 years to write and I put everything I had into it. Would be very glad if you check it out! (kindle link https://www.amazon.com/dp/B094PVG2XF/ref=cm_s)

• A shopping mall full of murderous androids
• A frantic mother in search of her daughter
• They don't stand a chance...

It's a sci-fi horror novel called THE MALL, and you'll find it via the link below:

https://www.amazon.com/Mall-Sci-Fi-Horror-Thriller-ebook/dp/B09QRMZH9L

Thanks for having a look!

To Those We Found

In a far-off galaxy, the purple-skinned alien, Taman Yedder, left his home colony for the motherworld Yemma. As one among billions, he was chosen to represent his home system and compete against six other chosen ones, in a grand contest called, the Anermis-report.

A welcome message that's intended to be sent to another species that they have discovered.

After meeting his sponsor, he embarks on a high-speed journey to locations of historical and cultural significance. This way he must capture the essence of his species. Yet, on his journey, he encounters angry mobs of protesters, seemingly trying to stop his progress. They are terrorists he is told. But are they truly as evil as the government says? And will Taman survive to finish the contest?

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Those-We-Found-Thriller-Perspective-ebook/dp/B09MNS6J4V

Trailer: https://youtu.be/weaZ6RZdgOo

several advices from my own experience:

• Write any ideas you have, and save it for later (I keep mine in a notes app on my smartphone).
• If you are stuck, its ok to jump to other parts of the story, (sometimes I write three chapters ahead, to the following subplot, or to go back and see if there are things I want to change).
• Here is a tool that helps me a lot, I downloaded a TTS reader app to my phone (@voice is the one that I am using) and I listen to the things I write while driving or working out, it helps me find grammar mistakes and also to hear if everything sound understandable.
• It is ok to take inspiration from others, read books, see movies and tv shows, just don't be a rip off.
• Don't throw away scrapped content, it is a good source for inspiration when stuck.

Good luck and DM me if you want more advices, I will be joyed to help.

Everyone likes a good david vs goliath scenario. If you have the "USN Hammer of God" with her 6 Laser turrets that screem Freedome and a central Railgun that has the nickname "Relativistic Impregnator" go against "Old Mining ship Nr 32" with one drill and a few Mountain Dews in storage, that is a lot more interessting if your story is about Underdogs from the start.

Basically yes. I would go even further and give them no weapons at the beginning. Could create some creative solutions.

Actually,

Jupiter is so massive that the Sun/Jupiter barycenter is 30,000 miles above the surface of the sun, therefore Jupiter is not a planet according to the technical definition. It's only a planet according to the common-use "jargon".

Now, if the IAU had bothered to define what an orbit is maybe that would clear up some confusion. (our "moon" actually orbits the Sun first, and the Earth second. The sun has twice the gravitational influence on it than the Earth does.) The Earth and Moon are actually in a lane-changing co-orbit around the sun. There's a lot more detail about this in this book

Since the Earth hasn't cleared its orbit of the "moon" that isn't really a moon, and since Jupiter orbits an empty point in space, neither are planets, and Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto can all be legitimately called satellite planets around a sub-brown dwarf, since adjectives are in vogue now.

Hi All!

The first book in my For Humans, For Demons series is free this week, and I’m looking for downloads to help climb the ranks to promote the recent release of book 2! I would GREATLY appreciate it if you would take the time to grab the free eBook, thank you so much!

Synopsis:

💀CONSTANTINE meets DEVIL MAY CRY in this gritty afterlife revenge story 💀

�Jackson Crowe is dead. �Or at least he was. After his death, he awakens in the North-Lane and finds himself at the crossroads of life and the beyond. The higher beings give him a choice: move on through the North-Lane and into the universe to his next chapter, or return to earth and claim vengeance. �Choosing revenge, Jackson becomes known as the Order of Dust and is tasked with hunting those who take possession of human bodies. Jackson, both grizzled and pained, looks to find who took his life and the life of his love.

The Order of Dust (For Humans, For Demons Book 1) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08H4LFRDZ/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_12KH4HAT6R7STPQ2R6W1

Hyakku Porcent! Scifi/action novel, first 4 chapters out now :)

Synopsis: In a near future, beast-like powers appear, though the cost is going berserk, what will society respond?

Available for free on INTALE platform :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.intale.intale

(Also available on IOS I think haha)

Hi

you can get the first entry in The Galactic Culinary Society series free, January 5-9.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08VJM41XH

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Curious to explore the galaxy? Brave enough to face many-tentacled aliens who’ll disintegrate you on sight? If you’re truly hungry for adventure, there’s only… THE GALACTIC CULINARY SOCIETY!

Let Jeane Oberon, Chef Hunter extraordinaire—if unfortunately human—be
your guide to the dining rites of countless alien races: join the GCS
today! And remember, it’s an eat or be eaten universe out there!

Is this the right thread to be submitting in? I have two for you, this one is more action: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8KH39YESX68a2xhRXBjbzVmcVU/edit?usp=sharing

This is more contemplative: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8KH39YESX68dzV5dlpUNXFrZ1E/edit?usp=sharing

If you like Honor Harrington and The Original Star Trek, you will love Against All Odds. Published by Aethon Books and Audio on April 19th.

www.amazon.com/Against-All-Odds-Military-Sci-Fi-ebook/dp/B09MZLQSXY/

The final part of my first steampunk trilogy is out now - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PHRD94F

The Pirates started the war, and now they must end it.

Pirate captain Alethea Hera has abandoned her pursuit of treasure to hide her submarine, the Barracuda, below the Arctic ice. It’s a hard life eating nothing but seal blubber and dried biscuits, but necessary to keep them safe. Her traitorous former quartermaster Kei is spreading a reign of terror throughout Undersea, and not even its most powerful leaders can stop her.

Alethea’s daughter Marina is just as melancholy. Hiding under the ice means she’ll never see Thara, the beautiful shieldmaiden she’s in love with, ever again. Little does she know that Thara is also thinking about her, whenever she’s not trying to steal a legendary treasure hoard from Kei’s submarine.

But Kei has used devious means to find Alethea and kidnap members of her crew for her ever-expanding army. Now Alethea must travel to the farthest corners of Undersea - from mermaid palaces to lost worlds - and turn enemies into allies. Can Alethea save the world, if it means fighting her oldest friend?

Just published by my cousin.

The Echo at the End

Being alone is not a problem for Lem Auron, particularly in a universe that is slowly collapsing beneath humanity’s apathy and the cruelty of nature. Lem burns time by chasing and collecting memories across worlds, selling echoes of the past to the elite as entertainment in exchange for survival, and rarely bothers to worry about the source of her next meal, much less the deeper meaning of life. She is called back from her search for echoes by a man that owns more of her than just the ship she travels in. Having heard rumors of memories that would be worth a fortune, he points her, one of the rare few with the power to scavenge echoes, down a mysterious path into pasts hidden from history. Enticed by the prospect of echoes that could even be worth her freedom, not to mention the threat to her wellbeing should she fail to retrieve them, Lem unwittingly flings herself headlong into a dizzying landscape of mad scientists, plagues, banditry, royal vengeance, secret societies, forbidden knowledge, lost treasure, and found truths. Almost always alone, mostly because Artificial Intelligence does not count as decent companionship, and very sure it would stay that way forever, Lem has only known a universe that has never given her much cause to dream or plan. But perhaps the first steps toward hope should begin with a little wisdom from Shakespeare, and a lot of accepting just how much you wish to see birds flying across a sunlit sky.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09PHHBB2Z/ref=redir_mobile_desktop?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=1640966222&amp;ref_=tmm_pap_swatch_0&amp;sr=8-4

FREE right now on Amazon (December 26th-28th)
Cyborgs, Immortals, and Spacefarers: Book 1 of An End of Our Own Making
In the centuries after the War, what’s left of humanity’s factions struggle against extinction.
Three linked stories of old school science fiction:
The Immortalists, 1000 years after the war: Immortals trying to save their community are on a collision course with a farmer determined to protect his people.
The Leavers, 500 years after the war: The corporations rule the solar system, and the Earth is off limits. A shadowy group of activists seeks to disrupt the established order, and an ion ship captain is sent to stop them.
The Cyborgs, 200 years after the war: Cyborgs are a vanishing breed. They trust no one, especially not each other. Still, they must survive.

Enjoy some quiet holiday time with a few short reads
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09FZX18KP/

https://www.amazon.com/Predator-Moons-J-H-Ramsay-ebook/dp/B08JJ9QNTG/ref=rvi_1/134-7012322-0821462?pd_rd_w=11RYB&amp;pf_rd_p=f5690a4d-f2bb-45d9-9d1b-736fee412437&amp;pf_rd_r=5SR9WRANSRK0TY2GHFBC&amp;pd_rd_r=8245cd13-5742-47bd-b7fc-8f9a420d3377&amp;pd_rd_wg=wV2h7&amp;pd_rd_i=B08JJ9QNTG&amp;psc=1

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free if you have kindle unlimited, otherwise the ebook is $2.99

I just published my first novel called "Vents - Schwarzer Sand", a german Scifi-Cyberpunk book, set on a remote desert planet with nothing but black sand and a city at the bottom of a giant canyon that provides shelter from the deadly surroundings.
Feel free to check out the shop or amazon page (both in german).

Check out this neat little find I stumbled on a few years ago, big help in my own writing: Putting the Science in Fiction

> I don't think YA is the best way to go with this. If you have any market for the idea, it's going to be among people who are already familiar with Guevara and Castro.

As a teenager, and an avid YA reader, I disagree with this. If YA was limited by only what teenagers are generally familiar with, a lot of great YA books wouldn't be out there.

One book on my shelf is The Cardturner by Louis Sachar. It's about bridge, a game that most teengers only know about from possibly seeing newspaper columns. Did that stop Mr. Sachar? No. Sure, it helps that he already published Holes, but he managed to sell such a premise.

For me, the only "it's unfamiliar to teenager" argument is harmful. Your book is set in Sierra Leone? It won't sell because schools don't teach it. Your book is about this woman in history that got buried into obscurity? Too obscure. The blight of red wolves? I didn't know there were red wolves.

Che Guevara is only one part of the larger premise. The entire "clone repeats history" angle is interesting by itself, and can sell the book to those who don't know who Che Guevara is.

When an object hits an atmosphere at relativistic speeds, the atmosphere will basically behave as a solid; kind of like what happens to a person when they fall into water from a tall bridge.

Below is a relativistic energy calculator.

A 1 kilogram projectile at 10% lightspeed, is equal to about 7 Hiroshima atomic bombs.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/relativistic-ke

https://www.justintools.com/unit-conversion/energy.php?k1=megajoules&amp;k2=hiroshima-bomb-explosion

Let's say I changed it to Europa, and used this.

Do you think that would be realistic? The ship would have the initial mass of 5,000,000 kg after being assembled in earth's orbit.

For the first thing I want to add is about the support personnel that a lot of sci-fi forgets. Dedicated Systems Administrators/Programmers. The geologist wants to run a model and it doesn't work and is outside his skill to fix? Talk to a programmer. The alien DNA is weird (opposite chriality?) and all of the software needs to be modified to process it properly? programmer. To add to it, the non-critical portions of the ship would likely run a piece of cluster software similar to Kubernetes, which would run all of the Google Docs, Netflix, Facebook, (likely local deploy-able variants of them) everything on it's local cloud; the sys admins would manage that. This is the same cloud that would run all of the scientific models, running those websites for a hundred people is barely anything, like less than 1% of compute time, to a cluster that size (except perhaps storage space for "netflix"). But it would take active management. At least "one" position should be a programmer+sys admin (e.g. 2-4 depending on how redundant the positions are), that can also help out with other maintenance and repair duties.

I would second a first contact specialist. Maybe one of the security guys. But someone's job will be "hey what if there is intelligent life". The academic version of that will be an anthropologist+linguist+diplomat.

I use Scrivener for my writing and researching, but for outlining/plotting I currently use LibreOffice Draw. First of all it's free! I use it like Sticky Notes (Post-Its), so I can make them different colors and sizes. I can also move them around to reorganize my outline. I looked around quite a bit, but found this to the most flexible way.

https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/

A few of the stories are Sci-fi and involve nanites!

The Liar’s Bite: Nine tales that will sink their teeth into you and not let go. Two detectives search for answers at a grisly massacre, a bullied boy struggles to survive his tragic memories, and a man shipwrecked on a sandbar crosses unspeakable lines to survive. These stories and more—will haunt you long into the night.

Get your free copy here: The Liar’s Bite

Holy crap, This is you? Of course ive played it :) Awesome job!

I havnt really started marketing, but i did implement an email newsletter thing on my website for when its ready.

www.wildchildgames.com

Scrivener is a great tool. It was my main writing software for years although the learning curve.

I've switched for a Chromebook and needed a replacement for Scrivener. After many trials and frustrations, I've found Wavemaker. It's free, intuitive,reliable, saves in the cloud, works anywhere (online and offline as well) and gets the job done.

I'm well satisfied with it and never miss Scrivener. Even when I'm editing in Windows (where my Scrivener copy resides still), I keep using Wavemaker.

https://wavemaker.co.uk

It just so happens that I do.

> A star-faring religious cult, Jehovah's Catechumen, has created an army of robotic zealots. The original architects have ceded control of the mechanical legion to an artificial intelligence designed to follow religious scripture. As the robotic menace spreads across the galaxy, it takes prisoners to be 'excommunicated' -hooked into a neural simulation of eternal torment.

> Captain Rolland Barron leads the Sol Federation Starship Excalibur on a diplomatic mission to Jehovah's Catechumen. Cassia LaCroix is a wormhole hunter, earning a living scouring the galaxy for valuable tunnels through space-time. The mercenary cyborg Wojtek, captain of the Muramasa, is waiting as backup in a nearby sector. Prince Zoojin, a psychic alien from a distant galaxy, must prove himself worthy of the throne of Paxis Prime by confronting the Catechumen. The paths of these characters converge as they pursue their own motives, leading them towards the mechanical menace that is sweeping across the galaxy.

Masked Cyborg Pyro in "PYRO!! Day of the Cyborg" Tokusatsu/Action/Drama 73 Pages

> Laureen Bishop would never have imagined that a mere missing young woman would bring her into the middle of a worldwide conspiracy. On a day unlike any other, she finds herself face-to-face with a life form beyond explanation: a cyborg!

>With a heart of fire and a will of iron, this cyborg sets out on a dangerous mission: to stop the evil organization known as Tremor! But, just who is this Cyborg? What is its connection to Tremor? Can this cyborg save us from this great evil--or must Bishop save it from Tremor?

Link: Gumroad (PWYW, Min. $3)

Free Teaser

Masked Cyborg Pyro in "PYRO!! Day of the Cyborg" Tokusatsu/Action/Drama 73 Pages

> Laureen Bishop would never have imagined that a mere missing young woman would bring her into the middle of a worldwide conspiracy. On a day unlike any other, she finds herself face-to-face with a life form beyond explanation: a cyborg!

>With a heart of fire and a will of iron, this cyborg sets out on a dangerous mission: to stop the evil organization known as Tremor! But, just who is this Cyborg? What is its connection to Tremor? Can this cyborg save us from this great evil--or must Bishop save it from Tremor?

Link: Gumroad (PWYW, Min. $3)

Free Teaser

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/space-travel

Here is a calculator for it. Enter the acceleration and distance. Fusion drives should be able to just accelerate the whole way there.

Well, I encourage you to read this paper for a realistic interstellar spacecraft design.

Specifically, look at the dimensions in Figure 6.

Then take note that those dimensions are for the single stage design, and the paper talks about a 4 stage round trip variant with exponentially larger stages...

David Farland (a successful author/teacher to some very successful authors has workshops on his website. Some include ebooks, some are video lectures, some include personal feedback and actual online classes, complete with conference calls.

Masterclass has video lectures from some really successful authors, like Neil Gaiman, Margaret Atwood, Dan Brown, David Baldacci and more. They also have lectures across a huge range of other topics, including screenplays, BBQ, at home cooking, poker, acting, space exploration, etc.

Thank you for supporting him in his dreams. :)

There are plenty of reasons a writer may choose to use a generator to do some of the heavy lifting, particularly if you're in a setting with multiple planets and you want something more c

Here's a couple I like:

https://azgaar.github.io/Fantasy-Map-Generator/

It's designed for fantasy, but you can uncheck the culture layers and look at just relief and rivers, even view it as a globe. The data can be saved.

And as someone else mentioned, donjon's planet generator gives you a terrestrial world with all the data, including key data like gravity and atmosphere:

https://donjon.bin.sh/scifi/world/

Some combination of the two may serve your needs.

I use yWriter with cloudsync. Free for Windows (and Mac), the Android app is about 5 €. Has the big advantage that it stores files as .rtf, so I can work on them on my Linux machine (or anywhere I don't have the software installed) as well.

For projects with huge worldbuilding and research, nothing beats a Wiki.

For timelines I use this.

>Earth has 10000s of underground Missiles silos ready to turn the Luna Surface into glass.

The Moon has unlimited amounts of boulders to rain down on Earth, and all those missiles on Earth would take days to get to the Moon, if they had enough fuel to even get into orbit in the first place.

Your story idea would work though -- but only because the average reader knows jack-squat about real physics.

I know someone who wrote that story, except he used real physics (and uses real physics to deprive women of their tops in the story too!).

His book is an interesting read about the relationship between a Lunar colony and Earth, 100 years after the Moon becomes self sufficient.

100 years is room for a LOT of development. Think of 1900, vs. 2000.

Here's his book -- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09842F2G7

You should also read The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, by Heinlein. In his book the moon is a prison colony that decides to attack Earth.