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What is Beyond the Empyrean About? Beyond the Empyrean is an epic science fiction novel in the grand tradition of space operas like Star Wars, but is also thoughtful and introspective with a spiritual side and strong world-building like Dune. Readers will enjoy the rich and diverse characters, the political drama, and the relevant current …
The official release date for Beyond the Empyrean is 25 July 2022. There will be a Kindle, paperback, and hardcover available through Amazon. Also, there will be a paperback and hardcover available through Barnes & Noble. Preordering for the Kindle version begins 11 July 2022. Order here now. Reminder: Beyond the Empyrean is about a …
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Some will no doubt say that I’m going overboard by writing down all of this detail about my constructed language. But I’m doing it precisely because I want to make it clear how much time and effort was put in. My intention is that Luojai (or Asuoma, its formal name) will become as well-known as …
This is the dust jacket for the forthcoming signed limited edition hardcover of When Morpheus Overslept. I’m thinking of selling these directly from my own website. Since demand for the book is soaring, I may do an original piece of illustration for the book and include a print on watercolor paper. The price would end …
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Humans were very surprised when they discovered that a sophisticated alien race had been hiding out in the region of Vega for so many centuries prior to their discovery in 2301, because, by then, many probes had been sent in that direction, each revealing uninhabitable worlds. The earliest efforts to explore the star system had …
The Aliens of When Morpheus Overslept, Part 1 — The Ch’k li’ak Read More »
After a slight delay, publication day, February 15th, is complete. We’ll just say that publication “day” ran for 36 hours. Apparently, paperback books on Amazon KDP require a “special” and more expensive ISBN number. The alternative was to use a free Amazon KDP ISBN but that would have meant it could have only been published …
I had a great chat with Dr. Justin Ball of the Swiss Plasma Center at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) last weekend. He provided some helpful updates to my speculative science in the previous “The Science of When Morpheus Overslept” installments. The takeaways from our talk were: 1. There are two types of gravitons: …
So, you want to travel faster than light? Prepare yourself for a wild ride! In this final blog on the science of When Morpheus Overslept, I will describe the method of superluminal travel called Bardolian Superluminal Drive. But first, a little history… Graviton Drive (described in Part 2) naturally made scientists think about the logical …
“Bardolian Superluminal Drive” — The Science of When Morpheus Overslept, Part 3 Read More »
In Part 2 of this series on the technology of When Morpheus Overslept, I will describe the way Graviton Drive was developed during the late 21st and early 22nd centuries, and this is indeed the meat of this topic since its use drives not only the spaceship in which the main characters travel but also …
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Not very much of my debut novel, When Morpheus Overslept, involves heavy use of hard science fiction. Though I spent a great deal of time—almost as much as writing the first draft—developing the technology that drove my world, very little of it actually came out in the finished novel, just as it should be. Nevertheless, …
“Speculative Fiction and Plausibility” — The Science of When Morpheus Overslept, Part 1 Read More »