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Best of luck, @mario guinea ! I live in Spain, but I'm afraid my Spanish is too poor for reading fiction. He empezado leer un traducción de "Estrangero en una Tierra Estranger" (Stranger in a Strange Land?!) porque eso he leado muchas veces el original en inglés, pero en dos años no he avanzado mucho... :oops:

¡Buena suerte!
 
Andrew LH said:
Best of luck, @mario guinea ! I live in Spain, but I'm afraid my Spanish is too poor for reading fiction. He empezado leer un traducción de "Estrangero en una Tierra Estranger" (Stranger in a Strange Land?!) porque eso he leado muchas veces el original en inglés, pero en dos años no he avanzado mucho... :oops:

¡Buena suerte!
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Thank you. It is "Forastero en tierra extraña", if you mean Heinlein's 1961 "Stranger in a Strange Land". Sort of hippy tale, but interesting anyway. My book "Tesai: Resurgence of the Farasi People" is already translated into English and available at Amazon. But I translated it by myself, so I guess the translation isn't fully correct. I think any sci-fi reader would like it anyway.
Thank you very much, again.
 
Hi there, I'm Goerge Ander, an author who loves books and movies like Hunger Games, Alien, Contact, The Martian, Dune, Star Wars, 1984, and many more. And recently I've published a book (To Those We Found) that's a strange new amalgamation of those things.

In a nutshell: The Story explores a first contact scenario through the eyes of a purple-skinned alien species in a far-off galaxy. They have discovered another race beyond the cosmological horizon and want to send a message. But government conspiracies, oppression, and terrorism drive their civilization to the brink of disaster.

For more info feel free to visit my website, watch the launch trailer.
And when you're done, get the book on Amazon for 2.99 0.99 or for free on Kindle Unlimited.

Thank you and enjoy,
George
 
From the blog on my website for the novel Immortelle, available as separate chapters there and soon to be released on Amazon:

I've finally decided to get off my derriere and self-publish my novel Immortelle. I had hawked the MS around a few lit agencies but we know how that kind of thing goes. Then I lost interest in it (as I tend to do with anything once I feel it is a finished product) and forgot about it for a while. But it seems a pity to let it disappear after I had put so much effort into it, so here goes.

The novel takes place in the 2040s. NASA and the ESA have financed a joint manned trip to Mars. The West isn't the focal point of world economic and military power at this point, with a rising East tempered only by the fact that China and Russia are at loggerheads. The Mars trip is a prestige mission in the same way the Moon landing was a prestige mission. It's likely to be a once-off as going to Mars is far more expensive than going to the Moon. But everything changes with the arrival of 1036 Ganymed, biggest of the Amor asteroids, that is knocked off course by an object from the Kuiper belt and is now scheduled to score a bull's eye on Earth. The plan is to deflect it with nukes, but then something else arrives on the scene that changes everything, again. And with that appetite-whetter, off you go and start reading.... :)

Critiques, suggestions, etc. are welcome here. I put a good deal of research into the science (with some useful input from Andy Weir...name dropping, yeah!) as I wanted the technology to be watertight. With Google at our fingertips we have no problem picking holes in what passes for hard SF. If you're going to do it to my novel I wanted to make it a challenge for you. Have fun!
 
Just a question re details that you were able, or wished to, work in.
There have been recent popular science releases of the fact that Mars explorers have detected that there are toxic chemicals, chlorines and perchclorate compounds in the Martian dust. As I first heard it (perhaps a scare story) the tiny granulation of this dust would make it impossible to protect humans and other living organisms. I thought of the Martian colony posited in Kowal's Lady Astronaut series. Recalled when I read your post.

Probably so recent as to post date your writing.
Just me being a downer.
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pogopossum said:
Just a question re details that you were able, or wished to, work in.
There have been recent popular science releases of the fact that Mars explorers have detected that there are toxic chemicals, chlorines and perchclorate compounds in the Martian dust. As I first heard it (perhaps a scare story) the tiny granulation of this dust would make it impossible to protect humans and other living organisms.
When I heard about this I thought of the Martian colony posited in Kowal's Lady Astronaut series.
Probably so recent as to post date your writing.
Just me being a downer.
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Ta for the input. It seems perchlorates would be a problem for humans but they're not that poisonous - Mark Watney could in fact have lived off Mars grown potatoes for a while but he would have come back to Earth a sick dude.

In my novel the main protagonist isn't on Mars long enough for perchlorates to take him out. In any case one assumes NASA has ensured he is protected against them - maybe I'll add something describing just how he is protected.
 
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Thanks Justin for responding so immediately.
Your attention got me interested further. Here's the best dusty article that I could find. Came up with some more technical stuff, but honestly the chemistry and mechanical engineering were somewhat beyond me.
My degrees are in history and library science. Which are of great utility for finding information, but not understanding it.
Anyway, for anyone interested, here's
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I read a good lot of this about a year ago. I was quite impressed, but then it did start to get bogged down a little in part two I think it was. Nevertheless, some real promise for certain. Glad you haven't dropped it.
 
Dust would be a problem and I'm not sure how human tech would solve that one. Fortunately I don't have to explain everything in a novel. :)
 
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I read a good lot of this about a year ago. I was quite impressed, but then it did start to get bogged down a little in part two I think it was. Nevertheless, some real promise for certain. Glad you haven't dropped it.
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Maybe give it another go? Things get exciting towards the end of part 2 and zip along in part 3. :cool:
 
Sorry, I'd like to help but I am just swamped at the moment and couldn't possibly fit it in.
 
Trollheart said:
Sorry, I'd like to help but I am just swamped at the moment and couldn't possibly fit it in.
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Humperdink "You know how much I love watching you work. But I've got my country's 500th anniversary to plan, my wedding to arrange, my wife to murder, and Guilder to frame for it. I'm swamped."
Rugen:
Get some rest. If you haven't got your health, you haven't got anything.
 
Me: I can quit any time. Oh yes. Any time I want to. Not a problem. I just... don't want to.

(And now to begin writing the history of Russia...)
 
Evening everyone looking for a cosy read to see them through the last few months until summertime, I've just published the first volume of my new fantasy fiction series 'The Last of the Wild Days', inspired by and dedicated to three of my favourite childhood authors who are sadly no longer with us. It's available on Ebook and paperback on amazon and I'm running a free Ebook promotion for it for the next five days starting tomorrow to get it out there and hopefully get some reviews in, I'd love you guys to read it as fans of this particular genre and as of tomorrow.... Its free for 5 days! Grab it while you can and tell anyone else you know who is at odds and ends for a fantasy to read!

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'For Brackenhal, Merralea and their last remaining cub, life on the rugged Storm Cairns is a continuous struggle. Plagued by hunger, exposure to the elements and Flesheaters who are picking their fellow Foragers off one by one, they are fleeing a brutal and seemingly unending winter in search of kinder lands than their own. On their path, they discover an abandoned fox cub lying in the snow. Despite foxes being some of the most feared and cruel of all predators, they decide to raise the cub as their own. Meanwhile, another creature born of winter itself is uniting the Flesheaters under one creed to begin a great hunt, and as the Foragers raise their orphaned cub in little knowledge of the looming threat, the Wintergazer is ever growing in both power... and hunger'


Here is the link...
The Last of the Wild Days: Volume One: Amazon.co.uk: Loney, Daniel J: 9798783640049: Books
Buy The Last of the Wild Days: Volume One by Loney, Daniel J (ISBN: 9798783640049) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk
 
Two Choices Week, post one - a series of five. May be of interest to the writers and authors here...
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Two Choices Week, 1

Two Choices Week looks at those hidden forces of the unconscious which can be the most powerful motivating and imaginative forces felt, and used, by authors. I’ll be writing five blogs on various a…
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Two Choices Week, part 2.
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Two Choices Week, 2

Two Choices Week looks at those hidden forces of the unconscious which can be the most powerful motivating and imaginative forces felt, and used, by authors. I’ll be writing five blogs on various a…
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