Launch Day!
In previous newsletters, I mentioned the various short stories I have written over the last few months. I’m proud to say “Aurora,” co-written with John E Siers, is out today!
She never belonged.
Unlike everyone else on the planet of Tatanna, she had blonde hair and blue eyes.
As her mother lay dying, she finally told her the truth:
“My beautiful blue-eyed child of the stars. I had hoped to tell you this when you were older. Your father was one of the off-worlders. You need to go to him. Find your father and take your place among the stars.”
On her way to find him, she encountered Maya, the onboard AI for the battlecruiser LFS Amazon. Will she send her back to Tatanna? or help her find her father?
Fifteen new science fiction series. One shared principle: Humanity must never surrender the final choice to the machine.
Welcome to “Anthromech” where technology may serve, amplify, and even merge with humanity, but it must never rule it; these stories push back against the tired assumption that machines will inevitably inherit the future.
This isn’t your traditional anthology, though; it is a Simultaneous Series Launch, introducing fifteen new series in one explosive volume. Readers won’t just discover new worlds here; they’ll help decide which of them march forward into production as full series. Which ones will succeed? You make the call on which ones you want to see more of.
Even more unusual, over half the stories pair veteran, bestselling Chris Kennedy Publishing authors with newer writers, turning the book itself into an act of mentorship as well as an imagination of the future. So climb aboard “Anthromech;” after all, the machine is nothing without you!
With stories by:
S.W. Swoope II & Chris Kennedy
Craig Bell & Kevin Steverson
Richard Cartwright & William S. Frisbee, Jr.
Joseph Hower & William Alan Webb
Charli Cox & John E. Siers
Jay Burr & Mark Stallings
David Appleby & Robert E. Hampson
Abigail Jenkins & April Kelley Jones
M.D. Boncher
Russ Tilton
C.A. Waldron
Ronald Lloyd
Megan Miller
Andrew Waldron
Grab your copy, give it a read, and vote for the stories you want to see more of!
Good news: John and I are already 10 chapters into the second book in the
Children of the Lunar Free State series.
Check out A Tale of Two Worlds!
The war is over, and the Lunar Free State has recovered and is moving forward with its colonial efforts on Xanadu. On Tatanna, the relationship between Luna and the ruling monarchy has never been stronger.
For the Confederated Nations of Earth, however, defeat by the LFS fleet was only a temporary setback. Their fleet has been decimated and can no longer challenge the Moonies in space, but they still have plans for covert operations to harass, weaken, and eventually defeat LFS efforts among the stars. On Tatanna, they’re planting deep-cover agents to conduct espionage against both the Moonies and the Crown. On Xanadu, they’re sending teams to eradicate a group of their own people who escaped from the Confed penal colony and took refuge with the LFS.
But the Lunar Free State is not without allies. On Tatanna, the Servants of the Goddess will come to their aid; on Xanadu, the Confed special ops teams will have to deal with the Kitties—highly intelligent and telepathic felines who are also the planet’s apex predators.
The war may be over in the Sol System, but out among the stars, it’s starting back up again.
I better get back to Aurora and her new friends. In the meantime, feel free to share this with a Science Fiction and/or Fantasy-loving friend of your own.
I’ll see you again next month. Bye!