Stop me if you've heard this one.
A nameless void-drifter, a robot farmhand with a shady past, and a washed up old marshal walk into a bar on the edge of human occupied space...
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Stop me if you've heard this one.
A nameless void-drifter, a robot farmhand with a shady past, and a washed up old marshal walk into a bar on the edge of human occupied space...
Gas Giant Gambit is available now.
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He's a unapologeticly greedy "land" owner and the administrator of this little mining town.
Do you really think that's a kind of person you can trust?
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I have officially started writing my next book The Hellfellows of Floodwood. Just another 10-12 months and I'll be done!
I HAVE been thinking about revisiting Gus's world lately. Maybe another Tall Tale From Beyind the Cygnus Rift is closer than I thought.
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Sometimes the only option available is a bad deal.
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Every workplace has a word it uses instead of the true word. What is yours? Decommissioned, rightsized, offboarded: give me the frontier version.
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Sparks tends a reactor everyone can hear failing and no one will name. She worked out what Wilbur was the first time she saw him flinch at exactly the right moment.
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Last Man Standing Part 2
sci fi western epic poem
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Wilbur Grubb knew every answer on the safety exam. He simply kept declining, politely and with supporting reasoning, to be present at his own death. They hired him for it.
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"Themes of freedom, redemption, and found family abound. It's a satisfying, rewarding romp."
(Nevermind the comparisons to Firefly and The Mandalorian, which make my heart flutter every time!)
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If Gas Giant Gambit is one long stand-off between Gus and Laszlo Leconte, it all starts in this scene.
It ain't high noon, but it may as well be.
Find out who's quicker on the draw.
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The Amber Belt was sold as the last honest frontier. What it actually is, up close, is a stretch of tired rock being taken apart for its minerals with the brisk thoroughness of a man eating a chicken.
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As of tomorrow, Sept. 16th, my debut novel, Gas Giant Gambit, has been published for an entire year.
It's been a doozy of an orbit, so this week I'm taking some time to list out the highlights.
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The plaque on the locker said DIED DOING WHAT HE LOVED. He had not. He had died doing what he was sold. Deadeye and the Widowmaker.
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Somebody repainted her, regularly and with great feeling. Nobody repaired her. Deadeye and the Widowmaker.
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Consolidated Frontier Holdings spent real money establishing that its documents should never use words like failed, or danger, or decommissioned. The style guide runs to a supplement.
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Good news! There are more Gus books planned, and the Gus books are also part of a larger shared universe of stories I call the "Delilah-verse" after Gus's iconic ray-gun!
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Strange things are afoot in the Las Ráfagas engineering corral. Gus doesn't want to know, but Las Ráfagas has other plans.
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