Sun Jan 17 2021 at 18:38:50
The short story collection will be out in about a year, and we can only hope that 2022 promises to be better than 2020 or (thus far), 2021. It will consist, tentatively, of ten stories, some previously published, some never-before-seen, and two written to bracket the collection. I really have to complete the
first one, which is about two-thirds done in draft form. That tale features a number of challenging elements. The setting takes a ground s eye view of an alternate timeline, so I simply set it in my adopted city. However, it challenges the brain to work through how 1971 might be if we d had eighteen years of awareness that extremely advanced aliens were about, and could return at any moment. I was fortunate to get access to the local archives before the recent shutdown, and other, more general historical sources for research purposes. Contrary to popular belief, everything isn t available online.
January 17, 2021
Sun Jan 17 2021 at 18:38:50
The short story collection will be out in about a year, and we can only hope that 2022 promises to be better than 2020 or (thus far), 2021. It will consist, tentatively, of ten stories, some previously published, some never-before-seen, and two written to bracket the collection. I really have to complete the
first one, which is about two-thirds done in draft form. That tale features a number of challenging elements. The setting takes a ground s eye view of an alternate timeline, so I simply set it in my adopted city. However, it challenges the brain to work through how 1971 might be if we d had eighteen years of awareness that extremely advanced aliens were about, and could return at any moment. I was fortunate to get access to the local archives before the recent shutdown, and other, more general historical sources for research purposes. Contrary to popular belief, everything isn t available online.