Taking a break from writing to do some new scifi concept art for Mike Sierra Echo – added it to the main page but am posting it here for your wallpaper collection. These are scenes from the novel, I’ll give you a quick description below: Our first picture is a shot of the space elevator…
Happy Monday – enjoy some pictures of 2008 EV5 – the star of Mike Sierra Echo! We’ve talked about this Aten-class Asteroid before – it’s the perfect counterweight for a future space elevator and astronomers have done the math to prove it. But what does 2008 EV5 – Evie the Asteroid in Mike Sierra Echo…
Taking a quick break from re-writing Mike.Sierra.Echo to tell you about the super-awesome ISEC academic contest to build a space elevator! I’m not the only person who thinks a space elevator is the future of exploration, so does the ISEC! Building a space elevator assumes we’ve solved a number of engineering challenges – even the…
Some of you have been asking for an update from me and here’s the answer: I’ve got major changes to make to Mike.Sierra.Echo. That means a total re-write on the novel – something I wasn’t planning on doing. Part of me is like ‘yay – I can see what’s wrong with my work and how…
Looking for new summer reading adventures? Gotchu covered, fam. I realize kids are filling out their summer vacation TBR pile and my novel hasn’t been released. So here are some scifi middle-grade adventures to tide you over until Mike and Dom get here: “The Last Kids on Earth” series by Max Brallier: While this series…
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Let’s take a step back on this Friday afternoon to discuss Mike.Sierra.Echo and Mesh – are they ‘hard science fiction?’ Why does it matter? What’s ‘hard sci-fi,’ anyway? Who cares about the answers to these questions. Let’s answer the last question first, I stumbled upon TVTropes’ Mohs Scale of Science Fiction Hardness page and they…
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Happy Monday – let’s answer a question from Mike.Sierra.Echo – how dangerous is the asteroid 2008 EV5? In case you have no idea what I’m talking about, 2008 EV5 is an Aten-class Asteroid about the size of the U.S. Capitol building. Naturally, it would make a dandy counterweight for a space elevator! But what if…
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Pausing my re-drafting of Mike Sierra Echo to remind you (and myself): your art matters – even if it sucks. It’s been a tough couple of weeks, re-writing entire scenes, re-configuring and re-architecting the novel. I have a better sense now of what the emotional beats of the story are and I’m making sure the…
Happy Wednesday – exciting news to share – the Mike.Sierra.Echo is draft done and now beta editing is underway! This Spielberg-ian space elevator novel draft is now written and we take a moment to celebrate that. It’s not easy to write 72,000 words and if I’m being honest there were a lot of days I…
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Happy to share some cool new free scifi and cyberpunk wallpapers with you! My work with MidJourney continues and it gives me great pleasure to pass along some of the awesome things the AI art is helping me to make. Take a look: It’s important to note – MidJourney is not doing all of…
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