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Le Tranchant du Temps : Point sur la série de livres Chers lecteurs francophones, Comme vous le savez sans doute, je prends mon travail d’écriture très au sérieux, et je suis également passionné par les langues. Il est très important pour moi que vous puissiez prendre autant de plaisir à lire mes romans en français […]
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Announcements, BooksBEYOND THE EMPYREAN: THE “LOST” CHAPTER In the process of translating Beyond the Empyrean into Spanish, I became intrigued by the potential of multiple dialects to delineate the different social groups within the story. In a reflection of Star Wars, I decided that the oligarchs and mining executives would speak with a Castilian Spanish dialect
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Book Samples, BooksAfter six months of very difficult and exhausting work, it’s finally official: the complete Along Time’s Edge trilogy is now available for pre-order in Italian, French, and German! 🇮🇹 Lungo il Filo del Tempo: Oltre L’Empireo, L’Albero Folgorato, La Gabbia dell’Infinito 🇫🇷 Le Tranchant du Temps : Par-Delà L’Empyrée, L’Arbre Foudroyé, La Cage Infinie 🇩🇪
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Announcements, BooksThe 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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Announcements, BooksSome 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
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Announcements, BooksThis 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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Announcements, BooksHumans 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
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BooksAfter 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
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Announcements, BooksI 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:
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BooksSo, 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
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BooksIn 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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BooksNot 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,
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