http://www.stephendeas.com The Dragons Are Coming Tue, 10 Aug 2021 06:18:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Title: The Light Years Author: R.V.V.Greene Publisher: Angry Robot Premise: A little over a thousand years from now, mankind has fled a dying Earth and founded a dozen or so colonies that now communicate and trade via sub-light Trade Ships. This wasn’t always the case, but the secret of “worm drives,” along with ... http://www.stephendeas.com/review-the-light-years-by-rvv-greene-10082021/ I've had my arm twisted and so I'm going to be posting the odd book review over the coming months.  In order to not have to repeat myself lots, here some guidelines I'll adhere to as much as a feel like it. In general, I'll try not to judge a book ... http://www.stephendeas.com/review-philosophy-03082021/ The last four five years have been... odd. I've been writing other names. The Magenta trilogy was  written and sold and largely vanished without a trace, although it was very, very nearly a TV series, which would have been quite something. I've since changed publishers, a parting of ways that was ... http://www.stephendeas.com/back-in-silver-822021/ Fings peered across the snow. “You keep banging on how there’s a war coming. Much better chance he’ll get killed if he’s off fighting in it rather than sitting around the Pig making our lives miserable.” Wars were things that happened to other people, as far as Fings was concerned. “Your ... http://www.stephendeas.com/the-moonsteel-crown-sample/ Imagine a heart ready to burst with joy. Christmas mornings as a child, passing your final exams, the thrill of a first kiss – all that and more. Imagine being able to reach and find those glorious moments whenever you want, the feelings fresh and intense, undiminished by time. Imagine ... http://www.stephendeas.com/i-know-what-i-saw-2/ <PT>INSTANTIATION ONE</PT> Agent Laura Patterson of the Magentan Investigation Bureau – the Tesseract, as everyone calls it these days – sits in a quiet office. She’s alone and it’s late. Everyone else has long since gone home. <EX>Summary Progress Report: Suspect: Chase Hunt</EX> Case notes. Nothing official. A report in progress. Unseen, Instantiation ... http://www.stephendeas.com/from-divergent-suns-2/ Mystery Object Discovered Under Magentan Polar Ice Scientists working with the Magenta Institute Polar Expedition have released images from ground penetrating radar of an object visible through the Magentan polar ice. The object, discovered during a routine survey, was initially mistaken for a rock formation; however the new survey shows the ... http://www.stephendeas.com/from-distant-stars-sample/ It rained a lot on Magenta. Hard hissing sizzling skin-slicing rain, kamikaze hornet-sting droplets sucked out of the sky by Magenta's relentless gravity. Cox huddled in the shelter of a service tunnel. He slipped a hand into the pocket of his K-polymer, a battered hand-me-down all-weather skin long past its prime. ... http://www.stephendeas.com/from-darkest-skies-sample/ After a year of back and forth... Neither Gallow nor William Falkland look set to make a return through conventional publishing. Sorry. I'd love go back to both of them but I have to write what pays for the foreseeable future. There are still stories happening but they have to stay ... http://www.stephendeas.com/lack-of-progress-report-2322017/ No, I'm not dead. Yes, I'm still writing. No, there won't be anything new out from me this year. Yes, a good chunk of that is my fault for heading off on an entirely different tangent now the Silver Kings is done. For some reason I've been writing screenplays for ... http://www.stephendeas.com/captains-log-stardate-holy-crap-is-that-the-time/