Tag: Science Fiction
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Look to the Stars: Free!
My short story, Look to the Stars, is available for free from Amazon starting 9 August and going until 10 August. This is your opportunity to get it for free. Look to the Stars is in the shadow space universe and takes place just before the events of The Fallen Race. Look to the Stars…
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Kal’s August Updates
August is here! As far as my updates, I’m still finishing up The Shattered Empire and I’ll be getting it out to my alpha readers in the next couple weeks. Echo of the High Kings is now available on Amazon as an ebook and paperback. In addition, Look to the Stars is now available on Amazon. …
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Kal’s July Writing Updates
I’m pleased to announce that Echo of the High Kings is on schedule to be released on 1 August 2014. Echo of the High Kings is an epic fantasy novel that I’ve been working on, through multiple iterations, for a long while. It is the first book of the Eoriel Saga, which will be a…
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Kal’s Reading List
It’s been a little while since I posted anything like this, but I figured I’d share what I read in my free time (such as it is, anymore). This is a variety of fiction and some non-fiction that I’ve read over the past few months. Most of these books I tear through in a day…
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Paperback Copies of Renegades: Origins
Renegades: Origins is now available as a paperback! So for those of you who want to read all of the Renegades novellas (plus some extra short story goodness), here you go! Renegades: Origins contains five novellas and six short stories. The blurb is below. In times of chaos, there are those who fight for…
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Edge of Tomorrow Review (Or Killing Tom Cruise A Lot)
There once was a movie called Groundhog’s Day. Edge of Tomorrow is sort of like if you took that movie, combined it with Starship Troopers (the book, not the movie) and put Tom Cruise in there to get murdered. (I don’t think that’s a spoiler, it’s revealed in the trailers and posters). It makes for…
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Her Majesty’s Western Service by Leo Champion
Here’s a sample section from Leo Champion’s Her Majesty’s Western Service, available at Amazon here. Unlikely partners… In a steam-driven alternate 1963, the British Empire faces off against neo-Tsarist Russia in cold war over a divided former USA. Pirate captain Karen Ahle is an upper-class Southern exile with a vendetta against the mercenaries who’d butchered…
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Reviews and Stuff
First off, Cedar Sanderson has a review up for the Fallen Race right here. Second, I’m midway through my YA SF novel, roughly 40,ooo words. It’s coming more slowly than I’d like, with the main issue being I only really have had time to write for it on it on my lunch break during the work…
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