Rainy season started today.

I've got a new computer that I have not had time to set up.

A spiffy laptop, an ASUS-TUF-GAMING, Intel Core i7, 2.2 GHz, 16 GB Ram.

It's finally nice and cool, at night, at least for a few days. 23C at night. But in the day, 37C, felt like 43C with the humidity.  The cat needs ice cubes rubbed on her in the middle of the day.

With the rainy season in Thailand, plants are going green again and growing.

I'm looking forward to getting back to working on everything again today, after I set up my new laptop.

41 Worlds for the Varala Drift

I have finally finished encoding the data for the many worlds and systems of the Aurin Cluster.

The Varala Drift Subsector has 41 worlds.

By the year 5440, The Orion Republic has grown, and TransStellar LLC is expanding operations.

Yet the Vestige Worlds of the old Terran Empire are holding out, clinging to the old Imperial Worlds.

As of 5440, the Auoran Subsector has finally been colonized, all the way to Rimward.

I have established the world of Arriago Jax, the Seat of House Jax in the Ree Expanse.

I have identified many key High Population Worlds, for the entire cluster.

Lots of work.

Pushing 2 Gees steady

Today I worked out the Alien homeworlds of the setting.

It turns out there are a handful of races more advanced than Humans, with much more advanced technology.  Each subsector has a few worlds that have interstellar travel, or at least native life, that is intelligent, even if they do not have starships.

The most advanced races have access to synthetic longevity drugs, as do some human worlds.

The sheer amount of data I am generating is staggering, but I am getting through it. I am diligently recording all of this data in my notebooks, while I continue to move forward with the actual writing of the books of the series.

Post -Valentine's Day Work

Thai Sticky Rice, Old Skool

Taking the Sunday off today. Went to visit the Thai family in Chom Thong.  I watched as they made Thai Sticky rice, Old Skool.

I've been working steadily for weeks on the maps of the Aurin Cluster.

Creating new polities and micro-managing world details.  Arranging everything to make it a very interesting setting that will support at least 10 books of the TransStellar Saga series.

My fans have been clamoring for non-map content.

To that end I will push to finish my TransStellar Saga short story Anthology "A Pale Blue Sun", by April. Difficult.  My focus is really off.

I hope to post short stories or characters or something here.

Getting there with new maps, new energy, Despite Covid-19

 I am really starting to narrow down the details of the Varala Drift setting.
Happy with my progress. I finally have all the systems in the entire sector mapped. Yeah, I have written that before.

It has been difficult to focus.

Covid-19 is in Thailand. We stocked up on masks, and soap.

We bought food, rice, bottled water.

We are Untethered

I spent the better part of 6 months building a following on Quora, to this day.

Now it is 2020, and we are all living in the former future. Who knows what happens from here, in this timeline?

Nobody predicted the events of the last three years.

My option now is one goal, get this series out, and design it to be sustainable over a decade.

I am not going to just crank out stories to "feed the machine", but I want to push for four book releases a year, or more, even though I know that will be a punishing schedule.

Still working on the Aurin Cluster Setting design.

I have covers for the next two years, for that book series, associated backstory tie-in books, a collection of short stories from the Aurin Cluster Sector. 

I am also planning other books across multiple genres.

Some cover ideas, here.

New Year, New Direction

It's a new year, now 2020.   Fall was one of the most depressing times of my life.

We are now living in the almost, but-not-quite cyberpunk future that I envisioned as a child.

I'm back at it after taking many intellectual side-trips sinceAugust, 2019.

I have reinstalled Scrivener and my mapping software (Cosmographer by Profantasy) and have organized my workroom.

I have invested a few hundred dollars in self-published science fiction themed covers of novels for the future series.

I fear, with the impeachment failure, that America is on a dangerous path with no guardrail.

I'll catch up with the details of the setting very soon.