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Keith Stevenson: January 2015

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Thursday, January 8, 2015. Horizon: the real life PALs. Each of the stellarnauts have their own PAL, a ball-shaped personal assistant that hovers in the zero G environment using small fans and allows the stellarnauts to talk to each other via video and audio link as well as acting as a recorder. It's a cool concept and, like pretty much everything in the novel, it's based on actual scientific development. Thursday, January 1, 2015. Certainly for me the key piece of work will be honing the second draft of...

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Keith Stevenson: September 2014

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Monday, September 22, 2014. Horizon is beginning to make its presence known and is now available for pre-order on a number of sites. So if you have a lazy $2.99, there are a few places you can splurge:. Also with the launch on 1 November, I'll be running a series of articles about the book, the characters and the science behind the story as part of the Horizon Blog Tour. Here's a rundown of the blog tour dates and sites and I'd like to say a hearty thank you. 3 November - Voyager Blog. So the list made m...

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Keith Stevenson: April 2015

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015. The Lenticular Series - how long should each part be? One of the things writers often ask me is ‘how long should my novel be? 8217; I don’t think it’s helpful to think about that in the early drafting stage, for fear of bending the story out of shape in order to fit some preordained word count. The story is as long as it needs to be. That’s my mantra in early drafting. But it’s time to start thinking about that now. In the meantime, I’m having fun developing my third poin...

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Keith Stevenson: March 2015

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Thursday, March 26, 2015. Swancon - final panel list. Yes, Swancon 40 is almost here and after a little bit of rearrangement to avoid panel members cloning themselves or threatening causality, here's my final panel rundown. I'm very excited to be attending my very first Swancon and looking forward to talking about a whole range of topics that really interest me. Terrors of the Second Draft. Friday 15:00 until Friday 16:00. What are the traps and pitfalls to avoid? Friday 17:00 until Friday 18:00. Loving ...

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Keith Stevenson: July 2014

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Tuesday, July 29, 2014. Particularly in young adult speculative fiction, there's a current trend to represent dystopias. And it's a valid reaction when we look at our world today. One of the primary functions of science fiction is to interrogate the present and show us the potential outcomes of what we see out of our window. That's certainly true for the worldbuilding I did in Horizon. The environment is protected. Getting there: Governments, business and social groups put short-term gains and competitio...

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Keith Stevenson: How do Kresz talk? Creating language.

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Thursday, April 9, 2015. How do Kresz talk? As part of Swancon, I appeared on the More Than Just Extra Umlauts. Panel about invented names and languages, because as part of the development of the Lenticular Series I'd realised that I needed to work out how my alien Kresz spoke and how their language was constructed in order to bring consistency to their names. I didn't have the language skills, time or need to invent a totally new language - like Klingon - so I decided to cheat a little. Da De di dj (ji).

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Keith Stevenson: June 2014

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Monday, June 30, 2014. TheN00bz - The Freedom of Free. In April this year I started Dimension6 the free, and DRM free, Australian electronic magazine of speculative fiction. Issue 2 is out this week on 4 July and will be free for immediate download on the www.coeurdelion.com.au. Website as well as a host of affiliate sites. I've been an independent publisher since 2006 and worked for Aurealis Magazine before that, following the traditional (and costly) publishing model. I can also give authors who appear...

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Keith Stevenson: December 2014

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014. Horizon - life in the extreme. This post originally appeared on Greig Beck's Facebook page. As part of the Horizon. It’s a thrill to be visiting Greig’s page, because I’ve been a fan since reading Beneath the Dark Ice. The very first Alex Hunter novel. So I thought I’d write about something that is close to Greig’s heart and which he’s explored in his own work: the topic of extremophile life. When I was creating the planet Horizon, the target for my stellarnaut explorers, I ...

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Keith Stevenson: May 2015

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Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Reading J Michael Straczynski's interview on his new show Sense8, made with the Wachowskis, I realised they had turned my idea of Kresz development on its head. How cool is that? I'm very happy to be sharing ideas with JMS :-). You can read the whole interview here. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Get new posts in your inbox. Speculative fiction writer, editor, publisher, reviewer and podcaster. Review - Leviathans Blood - Ben Peek. Coeur de lion publishing. Ratings: 8 (avg rating 3&#4...

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Keith Stevenson: February 2014

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Tuesday, February 4, 2014. After the silly season I’m getting back into serious redrafting mode on the (so far) two books of the Lenticular Series. I had excellent feedback from my crit group buddies at Serapeum and from Stephanie Smith. The key elements of the story are working but I need to up the human element more and also cut a lot of backstory, all of which is fine. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Get new posts in your inbox. Speculative fiction writer, editor, publisher, reviewer and podcaster. A Very...