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Because, once again, I want it to be true. But my scientific mind won’t operate on faith with this one. It seems like it is too easy to prove or disprove.
Technology has gotten us pretty close. We have spy satellites with optics so good, they can zoom in on a cigarette pack a Russian diplomate is smoking and tell you the brand.
(Or so I’m told.)
Sigh… So many of these items in these stories are based on truths that remind me of the X-files. For some, they ARE fact… for others, they are fiction.
I hope we at least entertained you and if you, like me, hope that some of the abilities are real they allowed you to dream a little about what it would look like to use these abilities.
ELL LEIGH CLARKE
I am going to end this series with a shout-out to my amazing collaborator, Ellie. She has done SOO much in the last twelve months, pulling this series together along with the spin-off Giles Kurns and collaborating with me on two Michael books.
I would NOT have been able to finish those two Michael books without her help.
Plus, it wouldn’t have been as nasty a way to (potentially) kill Michael without the Sciency-wizard knowledge (AKA Physics) that she possesses.
Right now, we are collaborating on a new series, with new characters in a new Universe. It’s a bit ‘James Bond in Space’.
If James Bond was a woman, kicked out of Spy school for having sexual relations with a spy that was in the school (no fault of her own – it was a political sham) that decided to open her own spy school and pimp her services.
Called Jayne Austin - Interstellar Spy for Hire.
If you are asking about the name, the answer is ‘YES’, we absolutely just went and did that ;-) My English collaborator is from England, and she now lives in Austin.
Ellie and I worked on the beats for the series (the second book) today. We want the books to play a little in that gray area of life, but have a Spy with a moral compass (kind of). The first beats are pretty hot - in my opinion - and I was totally successful with getting Jayne to have an arc where she starts to play the future version of Poker.
A future card game that remarkably plays just like our present version. With Ellie always giving me updates when she goes to the weekly games in real life, I thought it would be a lot of fun adding her knowledge into the mix in the stories.
And CHEERS (the bar, not the hand waving bit for English folk.) The bar doesn’t come along early in the story, but I wanted Jayne to have a future version of Cheers where life becomes about the characters in the bar, not about the far flung exploits of an Interstellar Spy for Hire.
I spoke with Ellie on a CC today, and I told her that prepping for these notes, I noticed she had written 12 Molly books, 2 collaborations on Michael and 2 Giles Kurns books.
All in twelve months without having read any fiction since she was 12. I explained that in the future, when she is being interviewed about how she was able to accomplish this, the answer is: ‘Isaac Asimov was a scientist who wrote about the future. I’m a physicist who wrote about the future.’
And she did DAMNED well doing it!
This year has been amazing, and for those who enjoyed our author notes, we have more coming in July and August, so keep your eyes peeled!
;-)
Ad Aeternitatem,
Michael Anderle
Books by Ell Leigh Clarke
The Ascension Myth
* With Michael Anderle *
Awakened (01)
Activated (02)
Called (03)
Sanctioned (04)
Rebirth (05)
Retribution (06)
Cloaked (07)
Bourne (08)
Committed (09)
Subversion (10)
Invasion (11)
Ascension (12)
Confessions of a Space Anthropologist
* With Michael Anderle *
Giles Kurns: Rogue Operator (01)
Giles Kurns: Rogue Instigator (02)
The Second Dark Ages
*with Michael Anderle*
Darkest Before The Dawn (03)
Dawn Arrives (04)
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