Tag: military science fiction
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The Fallen Race cover and upcoming release
The Fallen Race, my Military SF / Space Opera novel will be released tomorrow at noon on Amazon and Smashwords. Blurb below: Baron Lucius Giovanni, Captain of the battleship War Shrike, finds himself without a home or nation, his ship heavily damaged, and crew in bad shape. The odds against their personal survival are slim.…
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Renegades: Ghost Story out tomorrow
Here is the cover art from the awesome Robert Brockman Renegades: Ghost Story will be out tomorrow. It is the fourth novella in the Renegades series. This one follows the perspective of Eric and if I had to pick favorites, it would probably be the novella I enjoyed writing the most. I’ll be doing a…
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Renegades: Ghost Story is coming!
Renegades: Ghost Story will arrive on Tuesday the 21st. Here is the synopsis: Eric Stryker is a man on the run with a past that haunts him, which has led him to his current rag-tag companions. They’ve escaped from the xenocidal alien Chxor, hijacked a ship, are headed for human space, and they’ve even…
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Free Short Story! (and an update)
I’ve added a short story to the Free Fiction area. The story is called “Runner” and it is something of an origin story on Run from the Renegades series. It was interesting and challenging writing from his perspective, and I hope that you all enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it. Feel free…
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Free Space Opera / SF Novella
For a limited time, I’m giving away free copies of the first novella of my Renegades series. For the next five days, if you use the coupon code MG57A when you check out, you can get Renegades: Deserter’s Redemption for free from Smashwords (link). Mike doesn’t want to be anyone’s friend. He doesn’t want to…
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Writing habits and what I do in my off time
So, dear readers, the question arose in another setting as to what I do in my off time, and just how I recharge my mental capacitors in order to write more. This in turn, came up as a result of an offhand comment that I wrote 5800 words in four hours last weekend. It’s not…
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Space Warfare: the present and future
As a science fiction author, I’ve got a particular interest in current and future space operations. Since I also write Military Science Fiction, that interest is a bit more sharply defined. So I’ll address a couple of points regarding combat in space, and then leave a couple other areas open for your interpretation. The first…
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Kal’s Writing Worlds
Now that the insanity of Dragon*Con is past, I think it’s time to tell you all a bit about what I’m writing, what I’m working on, and most importantly, what I’ve got in the chute. Currently, I’m actively writing in four universes. Two are space opera, one is straight military science fiction, and the last…
Kal Spriggs 