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by Ken McConnell Ocher sands swirled around metal-covered lenses and slowly revealed the black face of an android. A signal awakened the metal man and set the lenses aglow. The soft light from twin stars cast long, dueling shadows over…

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Explorer Trilogy Now Available

The publishing process is still grinding away, there are two more vendors yet to be supported – Overdrive and Hoopla. But everywhere else on the list, you can either purchase or lend the books including Kobo, Kindle, Apple Books, and…

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Explorer Trilogy Inches Closer to Release

For both of my most loyal readers, the long wait for the end of the Starship Series is almost over. I’m on target to release the ebooks to all vendors in time for this Christmas. The final book in this…

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UCSDF Franklin Build (Part 2)

Moving on from the massive engine area of the Franklin, I finished boxing in the main hull shape with thick styrene sheets. When cutting long pieces of plastic, I just use a metal ruler and an Exacto knife, then bend…

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UCSDF Franklin Build (Part 1)

This model is based on an old friend’s drawing in 1980 for the story that would become the Starstrikers novel. Jason Harrington used his imagination to improve the spaceship carrier idea we had developed a few years prior and built…

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2024, Where Did You Go?

I must have skipped my annual “I’m still here” post this year. Well, I’m still here. Better late than never. This year has been a disrupted one for me. online pharmacy buy fildena without prescription with best prices today in…

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Change is Coming

I’ve been reorganizing my online presence. Overall, the trend has been to reduce rather than to expand my presence on the inter-webs. I have decided to keep this website as my home base. So there are links here to where…

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Writing Update

I suppose I should write a blog post this year before it becomes 2024. I’ve been working on the middle novella of the Explorers Trilogy. These are the last books of the Starship Series. So far I’m a little over…

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Hello, Mastodon!

Last week I quite Twitter. My account is still there, reserved just in case. best online pharmacy with fast delivery buy female viagra online with the lowest prices today in the USA But I no longer post there. I don’t…

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SS Ranger Build Part 1

All of my models start with a drawing. Sometimes it’s just a thumbnail, sometimes it’s an orthogonal drawing similar to a blueprint. The later is what I started with for the Ranger. The shape of the ship lent itself to…

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