Tag Archives: the last days of earth

A Railgun Brain, Part V

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Hatboy

Broker spent the evening with Elan and his mother. Conversation was subdued, mainly due to the fact that the Blaran was poring over Elan’s preliminary translation notes, skimming backwards and forwards, reading and rereading, occasionally switching to the electronic codex … Continue reading →

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The Last Days of Earth … the bell tolls

Posted on March 26, 2021 by Hatboy

Well, it’s been a while since my last update, hasn’t it? Sorry about that. I suppose the four or five main folks who read and comment on the blog have been in constant contact with me anyway, so you know … Continue reading →

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Where to next?

Posted on January 9, 2021 by Hatboy

Yesterday I wrote the final words of my first draft of The Last Days of Earth, and got the editors’ proof paperbacks into production from Amazon Spain. All that remains is to edit, get my cover (the drafts I’ve seen … Continue reading →

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Random thoughts again, only now it’s Thursday.

Posted on January 30, 2020 by Hatboy

I’m probably going to take another little hiatus while I work on the next book of The Steal of Time. For reference, that will be Grifter’s Heart and at latest draft I had five parts of it ready to post. That … Continue reading →

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Some happy news

Posted on January 21, 2020 by Hatboy

Tonight I had a little of my faith in humanity restored when I found out about #TargetTori. Go ahead and google that, but the long story short version is a poor long-suffering retail manager was given a hard time by … Continue reading →

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The Last Days of Earth, a tiny sneak peek

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Hatboy

In this sneak peek at ORtW book 3, one of the characters' dogs eats a poisonous toad while the team is making its way through distant-future Far North Queensland. Or Faarn, as I have named it.@lucasthorn @tiermorte I hope I'm … Continue reading →

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Heavy to Industrial-Grade Mythos

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Hatboy

Day 80. 70 pages, 33,036 words. Suspending word count at this point. The following excerpts come from the prologue to The Last Days of Earth. From here on out I’m focussing on my unexpected new short story anthology for a … Continue reading →

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The Cult of the Spirit

Posted on June 5, 2019 by Hatboy

Day 59. 64 pages, 30,172 words. Most sentient cultures self-governed, if they needed to be governed at all, by some form of organisation run and regulated by intelligent members of the species. That just made sense. At a certain point … Continue reading →

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Weekender, April 2019, Part 2: Writing About Writing About Writing

Posted on April 7, 2019 by Hatboy

Oh the Hell with it. Paging Stacker Pentecost, start the clock. Day 1. 5 pages, 1,874 words. Things are pretty quiet. I was delighted to see that Greyblade had gotten a review on Amazon Australia, from a fairly regular and … Continue reading →

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