My Favorite Book: Captain’s Memories

This part of the saga is something like an anthology of shorter works.  I’ve heard this structure called a ‘fix-up’ novel, where short fiction is blended into a novel-length story. I’ve been calling it ‘comb anthology’ where short stories are interleaved with chapters of a backbone story. I’ve been writing stories of the Terraforming Project… Continue reading My Favorite Book: Captain’s Memories

My Favorite Book: In the Time of Green Blimps

Back in Star Time, I planted a few seeds that meant little or nothing to that story, but provided the framework for this one. In one, the Australian scientist that was interested in genetic engineering, after a hundred years, has resulted in Australia’s dominant industry. Genetic engineering has so much potential, both for disaster and… Continue reading My Favorite Book: In the Time of Green Blimps

My Favorite Book: Tales of the U’tanse

It was plain from the very beginning in Star Time that this saga I was writing had two branches, and it wouldn’t work to combine them in one novel.  No matter that this was hardly the traditional way to write a book series, the off-world branch of humanity needed its own books. Strictly speaking, Tales… Continue reading My Favorite Book: Tales of the U’tanse