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The Road Ahead
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As some of you know, I'm working on a PhD thesis at the moment - hence my relative lack of activity lately.
On Friday, I submitted my first draft; after five years, the thesis is coming to an end. I'm not there just yet, but I'm already thinking about what's ahead.
One certainty is that I'm going to plough a lot more time and effort into getting my sci-fi project off the ground. The first two novels have been coming along very well prior to being paused for me to finish the thesis. Now that's going to be increasingly out of the way, I'm hoping to get them finished before too long. And then... we'll see. I have other projects lined up for the sci-fi which I'm looking forward to pursuing as well. One of these is an episodic serial.
What's clear to me is that this sci-fi project is going to be... rather large. The setting has turned out to be much bigger than I anticipated when I started work on it. It's going to take time to explore properly. And if nothing else, it's going to need a name.
So as of right now, it's the Diaspora Series.
I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of it.
On Friday, I submitted my first draft; after five years, the thesis is coming to an end. I'm not there just yet, but I'm already thinking about what's ahead.
One certainty is that I'm going to plough a lot more time and effort into getting my sci-fi project off the ground. The first two novels have been coming along very well prior to being paused for me to finish the thesis. Now that's going to be increasingly out of the way, I'm hoping to get them finished before too long. And then... we'll see. I have other projects lined up for the sci-fi which I'm looking forward to pursuing as well. One of these is an episodic serial.
What's clear to me is that this sci-fi project is going to be... rather large. The setting has turned out to be much bigger than I anticipated when I started work on it. It's going to take time to explore properly. And if nothing else, it's going to need a name.
So as of right now, it's the Diaspora Series.
I'm looking forward to seeing what people make of it.
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Hello, world.
I'm on here to keep up with the great work that the other Deviants put up, and to add my own.
Give you an idea of what I'm working on:
My fantasy: a Napoleonic/Victorianesque created world with squabbling colonial empires, crumbling religions, Byzantine politics and a magic system that's as realisitic as I could get. No elves, dwarves, dragons, super-powerful magical artefacts, forgotten scions of long-lost lines of kings, princesses to rescue, evil gods to defeat or necromancers with deformed minions. Oh, and no Wars to Save the World, either. Think gentleman-explorers, rakes, scoundrels, spies, politicians and confidence tricksters.
My sci-fi: a hard sci-fi setting told via characters instead of tech or Power of Plot, supposing that Earth is only politically unified *after* we start colonising other planets, set in 2600, with much the same as the fantasy setting, but no magic and with a realistic means of interstellar travel. There's no aliens, no cyborgs, minimal lasers, no AI gods about to destroy mankind, no mind control, no time travel and almost no faster-than-light. Oh, and no Wars to Save the World, either. Think soldiers, rakes, scoundrels, spies, politicians and confidence tricksters.
...you get the idea. I'll post up extracts from my writing, bits and bobs of universe-building, and perhaps even some supporting art.
Let's see how this goes.
Cheers for now,
Leovinas
I'm on here to keep up with the great work that the other Deviants put up, and to add my own.
Give you an idea of what I'm working on:
My fantasy: a Napoleonic/Victorianesque created world with squabbling colonial empires, crumbling religions, Byzantine politics and a magic system that's as realisitic as I could get. No elves, dwarves, dragons, super-powerful magical artefacts, forgotten scions of long-lost lines of kings, princesses to rescue, evil gods to defeat or necromancers with deformed minions. Oh, and no Wars to Save the World, either. Think gentleman-explorers, rakes, scoundrels, spies, politicians and confidence tricksters.
My sci-fi: a hard sci-fi setting told via characters instead of tech or Power of Plot, supposing that Earth is only politically unified *after* we start colonising other planets, set in 2600, with much the same as the fantasy setting, but no magic and with a realistic means of interstellar travel. There's no aliens, no cyborgs, minimal lasers, no AI gods about to destroy mankind, no mind control, no time travel and almost no faster-than-light. Oh, and no Wars to Save the World, either. Think soldiers, rakes, scoundrels, spies, politicians and confidence tricksters.
...you get the idea.
I'll post up extracts from my writing, bits and bobs of universe-building, and perhaps even some supporting art.Let's see how this goes.
Cheers for now,
Leovinas
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