LIFE AFTER GATEWAY Now at 200,000 Hits! |

Life After Gateway Now at 200,000 Hits!

This is the place where I write and promote my favourite genres. I sometimes write science articles about climate change or ocean colonization, and I advertise news about my own writing. It’s a fun creative outlet, and I’m thrilled that so many others are finding value in the articles I post.

Find out why I do this, below.

It’s called Life After Gateway because of the impact Frederic Pohl’s Gateway had on me when I was fifteen years old. The book itself served as a gateway to new worlds for me, and I’ve dedicated myself since to write within, promote, and contribute to the genres I love.

Here’s the “primer” that I wrote about my blog, and which is pinned to the top of my page:

TSJ’s Blog Life After Gateway — A Retrospective and a Primer

I’m ecstatic to have hit 200,000 views. Each day I publish one story about my genres. It could be movie, book, video game, or TV news. It could be a post written by a featured guest. It could be ramblings about a new scale model I’ve created, which are also featured on this page. Or, it could be an article about climate change, ocean colonization, or something similar related to my series, The Rise of Oceania.

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Selected Recent Articles

Interview with JCVD’s RAID PACIFIC Director and Producer — a LIFE AFTER GATEWAY Exclusive, Part One

Happy 60th Birthday, Star Trek

“A Canadian Boy’s Journey Back Again … 48 Years Later, Part 1” article by TSJ

Timothy S. Johnston Reviews the Norwegian Netflix WW2 Real-Life Thriller Number 24.

John Carpenter’s The Thing Has Been Added to the National Film Registry. Article by TSJ.

Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf vs. Silver Bullet. Article by TSJ.

Why Underwater? Ten Important Reasons I wrote The Rise of Oceania, and a Message for the Future

Some Recent Science/Tech Articles

The World’s Oceans Absorbed a Record Amount of Heat Last Year. Article by TSJ.

Underwater Turbines to Power Our Cities and Industry Article by TSJ.

Ocean Polymetallic Nodules are Essential for Our Continued Existence on Earth by TSJ.

Thank you for visiting Life After Gateway and for being a reader, a frequent visitor, and most important, a part of my life’s creative journey.

THIS IS MY LIFE’S MISSION.

I hope you stay with me on this path, as we explore the genres we love, we experience fun, entertaining, visceral, and transformative media in many forms, and I continue to write books that contribute, support, and express my love for the genre. We need escapist entertainment now more than ever before, and as I often say, a great story can heal the world.

— Timothy S. Johnston, 21 September 2026

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A Blanket of Steel by Timothy S. Johnston and from Fitzhenry & Whiteside, LTD. is the recipient of the 2024 GLOBAL Thriller Award GRAND PRIZE and the 2024 CYGNUS Award First in Category.

— Timothy S. Johnston, 21 September 2026

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Praise for Timothy S. Johnston’s A Blanket of Steel

“Fans of Clive Cussler’s NUMA Files will be delighted with Timothy S. Johnston’s undersea novels. Truman McClusky and Dirk Pitt are cut from the same adventurer’s cloth.” — Nick Cutter, author of The Deep and The Troop

“Action that ranges from close range combat to torpedo-fueled attacks. The result is a thriller that keeps moving from confrontation to confrontation … with constant danger and the vast depths of the ocean as a setting, there is always reason to keep reading.” — Kirkus Reviews

“Read the book and prepare to be blown away by one of the best writers I have ever had the pleasure to read. Timothy S. Johnston is simply amazing.” — FIVE Stars from Readers’ Favorite

“A Blanket of Steel is not simply a ‘daring do’ thriller … It’s prescient.” — Amazing Stories

“A priority selection. An action-packed story that is hard to put down. A Blanket of Steel is outstanding.” — D. Donovan, Sr. Reviewer, Midwest Book Review

“Innovative technology, Mac taking risks no one else would dare and thinking his way through to brilliant solutions … But the stakes are higher than they’ve ever been before. This is it. The countdown to the final battle … Johnston does an excellent job of keeping the tension taut as he plays with the reader’s perceptions of characters we thought we knew and trusted …” — SFcrowsnest

“Expect to be left breathless. Trust me here. Please. I COULD NOT PUT IT DOWN.” — Michael Libling, author of The Serial Killer’s Son Takes A Wife and Hollywood North: A Novel in Six Reels

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A BLANKET OF STEEL is out now!

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A Blanket of Steel from Timothy S. Johnston and Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Ltd.

Book Cover & Jacket Copy:

AN UNSTOPPABLE THREAT!

A mysterious assassin has murdered Cliff Sim, Chief Security Officer of the underwater colony, Trieste. Cliff was a mountain of a man, highly trained, and impossible to defeat in combat. And yet …

Someone brutally beat him and left his broken body in a secret Chinese facility at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.

And included a calling card for Truman McClusky, Mayor of Trieste.

Taunting him.

Mac has led the underwater colonies in their fight against the world’s superpowers. Climate change has devastated the surface; nations suffer famine, drought, rebellion, rising waters, and apocalyptic coastal flooding. But now, as Mac leads the underwater colonies to freedom and independence, he’s faced with the gravest threat of his life: a Russian assassin, hellbent on killing Mac and everyone he cares for. Now Mac must uncover the identity of the killer, face him in combat, and at the same time lead people in battle against the largest underwater force ever assembled. It’s Mac’s final test, and to win the war, he must use every tool at his disposal, including the most surprising and devastating underwater weapons ever invented.

If Mac fails, all hope is lost for the future of human colonization on the ocean floors.

But the assassin could be anyone …

Watch your back, Mac.

A Blanket of Steel is the most gripping thriller yet in The Rise of Oceania.

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The other books in The Rise of Oceania series by Timothy S Johnston:

The War Beneath 9781771484718
The Savage Deeps 9781771485067
Fatal Depth 9781554555574
An Island of Light 9781554555819
The Shadow of War 9781554556007