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Aug 21 2018

Catching up, again

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Things have been a little crazy over the summer. Too much going on and not enough progress on the next books. As mentioned earlier, I had The Eridani Convergence re-edited and republished (see the earlier post below). I am planning on doing second editions of all the previous novels, with some updates and additional material, but that will wait until at least Kakuloa is out.

I pulled my old collection Starfire & Snowball (with the crummy cover) and issued a new collection (with many, but not all, of the same stories), Alastair Mayer – A Sampler. (Cover image at right. Much better than S&S.) This is currently paperback only, but there will be an e-book version shortly. This will be available on most e-book outlets, currently the novels are Amazon only (it’s a restriction imposed by Amazon to be available through Kindle Unlimited). Stay tuned (or sign up for my newsletter) for news about getting a free copy of this.

Conventions I’ve already done StarFest and Westercon this year, next up (August 24-26) is Bubonicon in Albuquerque, NM. Alas, I missed WorldCon and I think I’m going to have to give DragonCon a miss too because of work schedule. MileHiCon 50 (October) for sure, and I’m debating World Fantasy Con in November.

Works In Progress Kakuloa is coming along slowly but steadily. It’s a sequel to the Alpha Centauri trilogy, but not exactly the fourth volume. It starts just after The Return leaves off, but then skips forwards a few years to when the planet is being settled by squidberry farmers and Kakuloa City is being built. A few characters from the trilogy make appearances, but it is mostly new characters and new plots, and the book covers a span of a few decades (Jason Curtis puts in an appearance). The next Carson & Roberts book, The Pavonis Insurgence, is about one-third done. This one feels like the middle of a chess game; it’s a matter of getting all the pieces in the right places before the end game, which will be the next series of books, where we’ll see a lot more of various spacegoing aliens.

As background to all this, I’ve been worldbuilding. Some of that shows up on the T-Space Wiki, although I try to avoid too many spoilers for work that isn’t published yet. Check it out, and if you want edit access, just ask. I’d love to have some help with it.

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