Scif-Fi & Fantasy writer, exploring the depths of insanity and traveling the alternate universes.
Steam is a very powerful force, and by careful recycling, a steam driven machine, and run for a very long time without being refilled. In my Steampunk/Fantasy series, “After: Earth”, there are odd mixtures of technology. Steam power is used for almost everything, though the city-states have gaslight illumination, and,…
We need to speak more about the society, and time frame of my Steampunk/Fantasy series, beginning with “Journey To The Black City”. Humanity, as we found out the last time, is now divided into two societies—the tribal folk, who are hunters and farmers, and those who dwell in the huge,…
And now, its time to discuss the time frame and back history of my Steampunk/Fantasy series. In the very first of the six novels that make up the “After: Earth” series, titled “Journey To The Black City”, we find that the history of this earth is not…quite the same as…
Beyond the characters, and the mechanical devices I dreamed up for my Steampunk/Fantasy novels, there is something else. There are ancient swords that seem to carry a spiritual force within them—magic swords, if you will. As the story progresses further through “Journey To The Black City” into my new “After…
Adria. We’ve been discussing this woman. Disorganized serial killer—what my characters in my Steampunk/Fantasy novel “Journey To The Black City” from my new “After: Earth” series call a ‘repeat killer’, leaves her tribe, after committing several murders. She stows away aboard a zeppelin run by the Cathedral. In the Black…
Since we’re discussing characters, another comes to mind who I also thought would also play a small role in my Steampunk/Fantasy novel, “Journey To The Black City”. But, like Dan Hendricks, it was not to be. I am speaking of a young woman from Lyria and Kel’s tribe by the…
Another character that appeared quite suddenly, and unexpectedly, in my first novel, “Journey To The Black City” from my new “After: Earth” series, is a man named Daniel. Dan lives in one of the tribes, but he’s a man with a haunted past. As he leads my two main characters…
Another character we meet in the first novel of my Steampunk/Fantasy series “After: Earth”, called “Journey Into The Black City”, is a child named Noria. Bandits kidnap Noria after killing her family and then selling her into slavery to the Cathedral. In the hands of the priests, she is forced…
Okay, I’ve discussed the theme of domination and abuse as personified by the Bishop and his followers. What about some of the other characters in this Steampunk/Fantasy series? Where did they come from? Well, to be honest, some of them sort of ‘appeared’ as the story was progressing! My main…
I’ve been discussing the concept of the ‘divine right of men’ to dominant and enslave women. We see much of that in our world, even now in the 21st century. In my story, I wanted to talk about this, but without raising the hackles of any religion in our world.…