Category: Fiction
“I was fascinated by the human species. They were so frail and yet so strong willed; so much like us and yet so very, very different. I knew in an instant that Kantor was right their home world was our…
Version 0.61 Beta of Plume Creator has hit the download servers at Sourceforge. Get it while it’s hot! Lots of attention has been placed on the look and feel of this release. If you are a writer who likes…
I keep forgetting to talk about this, but two of the Star Saga books are available now as paperbacks. Starforgers and Starstrikers are both just $9.99 on Amazon. Starveyors will be available at the end of this month for the…
“This marked the first time an android was used to translate between humans and Votainions. As the war progressed, android translators became standard issue in the Fleet. At first they used linguistic enhanced standard models for translators, but eventually humans…
Getting through the first draft of The Rising is proving harder than I anticipated. Primarily for two reasons. The first is because this novel’s on the opposite side of the thrills and chills dial than Starforgers. That’s not to say…
Regular readers of my blog know that I write my novels and stories on a Linux laptop. I use the Ubuntu operating system and the program that I use for writing is Plume Creator. This week the programmer behind Plume…
“Designing starships with detachable heads can be traced back before the war. Nuclear stardrive ships used the technique to separate living spaces of the starship from those that contained harmful radiation. As starships adopted the safer and more efficient tunnel…

