My Agatha-Christie-inspired murder mystery TechnoThriller, The Furnace, was my first novel. It received the 2015 CYGNUS Award for Sci-Fi Thriller and the 2015 CLUE Award for Blended Mystery. It follows the classic murder mystery formula, but uses science as the method of murder and features a future where humans are suffering under military dictatorship. Now, years after release, there is a new review I thought I’d share:
If you know anything about me, you know that I grew up in the 1970s, and the television and movies of the time heavily influenced my creative path.
Award news for A Blanket of Steel!
I have been building Star Trek model kits for the past year, following a forty-year break from the hobby. I have focused on TOS sets released by AMT, now owned by Round2.
Last week I ran a poll for my followers to help me pick my next Star Trek scale model kit. There were four choices: the new Allies and Adversaries set from Round2/AMT, the Vulcan shuttle Surak from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the Enterprise-C from Star Trek: The Next Generation that I previously wrote about here, and the Klingon Bird-of-Prey from Star Treks III -VI. The results are in …
Welcome to Life After Gateway, the blog I’ve been running for the past eight years. In some ways this is a ‘retrospective,’ meaning a look back at the past. In other ways it’s a ‘primer,’ for those new to my books, my site, and my love for the Sci-Fi / Thriller / TechnoThriller genres.
The Rise of Oceania, Books 1 and 6
I thought an examination of the first and final book covers would be interesting for my readers. It was a journey from 2018 to 2023, but there’s a little more to it than that.
I recently completed USS Reliant and have now unboxed and started my next scale model kit.
This one took me a few months. I had stalled on it for a bit, then with a surge of energy, much like that of the Genesis wave, I poured myself back into it and am very proud of the results.
