chapter 13: Senator Linda Haig’s Office, Tester Senate Building
This scene happens really early in the book. It serves a few purposes: sets up Linda Haig as a believeable antagonist with her own goals...
chapter: Hugh bets on future markets
Background: This scene is near the end of the series. The final battle is raging in the underground tunnels of Aristillus. A dozen vast invasion...
David Friedman – Stateless and Semi-Stateless Societies in Fiction and Semi-Fiction
If you like libertarian science fiction, you’ve got to listen to this lecture by David Friedman. Awesome stuff....
chapter 88: Hugh talks to Ewoma
== 2064, Evergreen Court Apartments, Aristillus, Lunar Nearside Hugh looked at the empty iced coffee cup and crumpled donut bag on the kitchen table and...
draft four almost 25% done; some statistics
the timeline so far: 01 Jan 2011: started draft 1. Expected it to be 120,000 words 24 Aug 2011: finished draft 1. 235 days. 169,429...
chapter 202: Dogs program the armed rovers
== 2064: The Den, Aristillus, Lunar Nearside Blue stared at a block of code, then shook his head in disgust. There were too many bugs...
chapter 196: Dogs prepare for the invasion
Blue watched the small lifting beam crane hoist the cargo container off the bed of the automated delivery truck. The truck pulled forward, leaving the...
[ some ] novels are like sausage
Apparently large numbers of professional novelists turn out three to four books per year. Here’s an example: Hugh Howey talking about a book he hasn’t...
gravel boats
I’ve blogged this chapter at least once before. It’s one of my favorites. Here it is, after the fourth draft. ============= == 2064: Nan Garde,...
chapter: 40 kilometers above Aristillus
The background: John and the Dogs have been hiking around the equator of the moon for six months. While they were on Farside Earth forces...