Tag: Fiction

AL CLARK-Gravity (Book Six) is now Live on Most Digital Stores.

Three years in the making, Al Clark-Gravity (Book Six in the Al Clark Series) is finally finished. This was a tough book to complete and has haunted me for a long time. It has it all: New Characters, Space Adventure, Rebel Space Stations, Alien Contact, A Moon of Mars, Earth, Colonization, Demanding Artificial Intelligence, and New Technology. I have to admit I am breathing a sigh of relief.

Here is a small sample to get you going.

Pyper McGuire is a space station rat who knows her cage better than anyone. She hides
in the shadows, roaming the immense structure at will. Like a fleeting ghost she is invisible to the
bulk of the station’s residents.
She is a young girl who sleeps where it is convenient, in places where few people travel,
dependent on the individual circumstance. Her room and board is stolen from under their noses
and she feels no guilt.
Pyper had parents once, a long time ago. After their deaths in a freak accident she lived for
a time with her uncle, who was a mostly absent maintenance technician. Maintaining a sprawling
space station is very time intensive. He had little time left for her. He died a year ago, leaving
Pyper alone and completely unrestrained. Over time, she learned to be self-sufficient.
She is a scrawny seventeen year old girl who looks fifteen, with wise auburn eyes and dark
hair kept short to simplify life on the run. She appears tall for her age, until you discover her true
number of years, which she does not divulge readily. Her youthful appearance is both an advantage
and a curse. Because she appears so young, she is able to get away with things an older teenager
cannot. On the other hand, no one takes her seriously which she often finds frustrating.
On this particular evening she is investigating a rumor percolating through the facility. A
new ship has docked at the outskirts of the sprawling space station under a suspicious cloud of
secrecy. The rumor speaks of a slender scout ship which landed upright on three graceful fins, an
increasingly rare configuration ill-suited for many modern applications. The mystery is too
appealing for her to ignore. She had to investigate.

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Christopher’s Journal (Update)

Christopher’s Journal (Prequel to The Al Clark Series)

Chris is nursing a badly sprained ankle and has time to kill, so he created his own Chessboard and pieces. He and his father played chess when Chris was younger and those days he remembers fondly. Playing against himself is not as fun, but it passes the time. The diagrams at the top helped to reintroduce him to the game.

He cut the chess pieces from paper, with the ‘black’ pieces dyed using coffee grounds from a pre-packaged breakfast. Although crude, it’s good enough to play the game.

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Al Clark-Earth (Book Four)

At last, the first draft of the newest addition to the Al Clark Series is complete. I struggled toward the end, but persevered. No good story will allow me to quit. Now begins the task of proofreading before sending it out to be edited. This is the fun part. The story is recorded. That is what counts.

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The End is Near

I am writing the final chapter of Al Clark-Earth (Book Four), which brings me great joy. Finally, the truth about Al’s origins will be revealed. Soon, I will begin the editing process, which I find both arduous and fulfilling. As soon as I write ‘The End’ on the first draft, I will arrange for the cover to be created. This is the point where writing becomes fun.

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Alien Life

Somewhere in the universe there is another planet with life. Although it may not be animal life, it is life in preparation of creatures that crawl, walk, and stand . This oil painting is my interpretation of plant life on another world – patiently waiting for the people that will abuse or adapt them for their own purposes.

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Alien Flowers

My idea of what life might look like on an alien world. There are millions of planets, so I believe these flowers exist somewhere. Created with Copic Markers.

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The Great Starship, Rama

My tribute to a Sci-Fi legend.

“It was at this point that the computers began flashing their ‘We have something interesting’ sign, and, for the first time, 31/439 came to the attention of human beings. There was a brief flurry of excitement at SPACEGUARD Headquarters, and the interstellar vagabond was quickly dignified with a name instead of a mere number. Long ago, the astronomers had exhausted Greek and Roman mythology; now they were working through the Hindu pantheon. And so 31/439 was christened Rama.” (Arthur C. Clarke – Rendezvous with Rama)

 

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