Well, Jason had accepted that Vampires were real... Chapter 3: Contingency Planning "What in the world are you doing?" Sylvie asked. I put down the loading kit. "Preparing. I figure that if I'm going to deal with a vampire, I'd better have something other than conventional ammo." She picked up a cartridge. "Silver? I thought I read somewhere that you actually couldn't make silver bullets; something about balance?" "I heard that too, but it's a silly statement on the face of it. Lead's softer and just as [ Continue reading... ]
Paradigms Lost: Chapter 2
May 30, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Finding a dead man on your doorstep does take a lot of time in paperwork... Finding a body on the doorstep does keep you up with paperwork... Chapter 2: Picture Imperfect I got back to Wood's Information Service at 2:45. The cops were gone but one of those wide yellow tapes was around the entire area. Damn. I went to the pay phone on the corner (lucky there still are any… pretty soon I'll have to get a cell phone myself), dialed the station, asked for Lieutenant Reisman. I was in luck. She was still in. [ Continue reading... ]
Paradigms Lost: Foreword and Chapter 1
May 27, 2014 By Leave a Comment
Here begins my "snippeting" of Paradigms Lost, my vastly expanded and revised version of my first novel, Digital Knight. This will continue until the e-ARC of the novel is released by Baen, probably in late August or early September. Foreword Paradigms Lost is a greatly expanded edition of Digital Knight, my first published work. It is not just a polishing and slight reworking of Digital Knight – indeed, in many areas I have tried not to touch the writing overmuch, as I don't want to damage the "flavor" that made it [ Continue reading... ]
Demons of the Past: Revelation — Prologue and Chapter One
December 25, 2013 By Leave a Comment
For Christmas I think I'll give you all a little treat -- the beginning of a space opera trilogy currently being shopped around by my agent, titled Demons of the Past. Happy Holidays! ----- Prologue: The Atlantaean Empire was falling. It was a colossal empire, stretching across uncounted millions of worlds from one side of the barred-spiral that would one day be called the Milky Way to the other, one hundred thousand light-years and more under a single, never-changing dynasty for as many years of [ Continue reading... ]
Just For Fun: Teaser Chapter: _Paradigms Lost_
November 1, 2013 By 4 Comments
My vastly expanded and revised version of Digital Knight, titled Paradigms Lost, will be released next year. Here's the first chapter. Readers of the original will note there are already a few subtle differences -- not the least of these being an explicit date for when everything starts... ----- Part 1: Gone in a Flash April, 1999: Chapter 1: Dead Man Knocking I clicked on the JAPES icon. A second picture appeared on the Lumiere RAN-7X workstation screen next to the digitized original, said original being a [ Continue reading... ]
Teaser Chapter: Castaway Planet Lincoln
October 23, 2013 By 1 Comment
Today, a sample of the book Eric and I have been working on lately (I just finished the first draft edits). It's a YA space adventure, set in the future of the Boundaryverse! Note that the title is subject to change -- it hasn't been officially confirmed yet -- and since this is a first draft much may yet change. ----- Chapter 1. Sakura Kimei lay as still as possible on the set of pipes, listening for the creature's approach. Could be very near. She gripped the weapon in her right hand and steadied [ Continue reading... ]
Spheres of Influence: Chapter 29
August 16, 2013 By 34 Comments
And we reach the end of the snippets that I'm doing for this book! Wu Kung's doing his bodyguard thing with Ariane out and about... ----- Chapter 29. A smell of caution and deviousness preceded the voice, so Wu was already turning in that direction when Oscar Naraj, dressed in one of his more conservative white suits, spoke. "Good morning, Captain Austin. You seem to be going out early." "Ambassador." Ariane nodded to him. She smells a lot less cautious around him these days. I really have [ Continue reading... ]
Spheres of Influence: Chapter 28
August 14, 2013 By 4 Comments
Sometimes even the Leader of Humanity just wants to get Out and About by herself... ----- Chapter 28. "So, Captain Austin, how do you find the Arena, now that you have returned and had some time to accustom yourself?" Ariane felt that she did quite well not to visibly jump at the deep, sonorous voice that she associated with the most severe beating she had ever taken. True, she'd emerged victorious, but despite that great and dramatic victory, what she remembered most about her battle with [ Continue reading... ]
Spheres of Influence: Chapter 27
August 12, 2013 By 1 Comment
Well, they weren't on board Zounin-Ginjou just as travellers; they had somewhere to *go*... ----- Chapter 27. Impressive, DuQuesne thought. Not quite up to the standards Seaton and I set, but then, this is real. As he'd guessed, Zounin-Ginjou was a luxuriously-appointed battleship, a warship with an admittedly thick coat of ocean-liner paint. The fact that Orphan was the lone member of the Liberated had obviously driven him to push the limits of automation in the Arena – and had drastically [ Continue reading... ]
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