Science Fiction Writing

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So, what attracts me to writing is the fact that I’m putting my own spin on the scifi genre. I’ve read some stuff such as some of Leviathan Wakes, Ian Douglas novels and others.
 
Current story I’m working on is a crossover between myself, a guy from my fanfiction days, and an editor from Church. Currently the editor is working on the 8 or 9 thousand word long Chapter 1, prologue is posted on Fictionpress and the Story is called 'Privateer Chronicles.
 
I rather enjoy Sci-Fi…By way of chance: have you read anything by saint John Paul II?
 
My spin (On my side of the Universe Border) is a star cluster of lost human colonies isolated from the rest of the galaxy. So, this Cluster, known as the Frontier Cluster, is colonized by mankind under the United Nations of Earth. Decades after colonization begins, they encounter an alien race known as the Ana’halesh who are native to the Cluster. The Ana’halesh for some odd reason start a war and almost all of humanity is driven out of the cluster. Those who survive are left behind as strategically unimportant by UNE forces or lost. The only thing that kept Civilization alive was the Catholic Church initially. A group of lost colonies rediscovered the Advanced Ion Drive and formed the Systems Union with the goal of reconnecting with Earth and regaining human control of the Cluster. Several colonies centuries later decide ‘heck no’ we won’t go and form the Frontier Confederated Alliance, aka The Frontier Alliance. They have fought several wars. The last of which was over the God’s Eye system which housed a lost data library. Data from that library from the war’s end revealed that the FCA was expanding into old Ana’halesh territory with no apparent signs of Ana’halesh habitation… however the Union doesn’t want another war with the aliens and requests the FCA withdraws from those systems. FCA refuses and the Union invades the FCA, with the industrial world of Thayer falling first
 
I did try to read a few of his works. And I’m surprised that the guy was the first, and only to date, Slavic pope! To my knowledge, there was Victor… something who was an African… I think, could be wrong.
 
On Sci-fi I’ve read most of Douglas Adams works and some Carl Sagan, add to that a lot of movies. You normally don’t get to notice the original author of the book behind the movies (same for movies of the “fantastic” genre). But hey, it certainly is a field full of potential that lets you dream beyond the stars…And I like it 🙂
 
I always had the idea of writing about a relgious colony with the title of Colonia. It goes through the various stages of civilization of sorts and has its own problems. This one series I did awhile back but had to take down from the kindle was Adria’s Birth and Adria’s Conception, overall called ‘Adria saga’ Conception series followed a future war hero named Kyle Adria, a genetically engineered human former Marine who went to Mars to become a Martian colonist and wound up being a war hero for the colonist rebels. In the future of that series, Kyle’s descendant, Nick rike, witnesses the fall of the Earth-Colonial Alliance and the shattering of humankind into various interstellar nations. And his home colony of Adria becomes a world like Sparta. A lot of the locations in the book were named after Greek cities and islands.
 
On the matter of Ian Douglas (AKA William H Keith Jr.) I followed him… until he started getting a bit out of hand with his Star Carrier series. Don’t get me wrong, the carrier thing’s fine but by golly! the dude put in polygamous relationships and monogamous marriages are looked down upon as primitive. Did like his Star Corpsman series and never even knew if he wrote down the third book! Read all of his Star Marines series and loved it!
Other than that, I’ve been reading some ancient classical works such as Herodotus’s The Histories, Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul, Suetonius’s Lives of the Twelve Caesars, and various Church stuff such as History of the Catholic church (Book’s too small for me, but I like it), St. Augustine’s City of God, and the North American Bible. Also read Warhammer 40,000 books.
 
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Herodotus’s The Histories, Caesar’s Conquest of Gaul, Suetonius’s Lives of the Twelve Caesars, and various Church stuff such as History of the Catholic church (Book’s too small for me, but I like it), St. Augustine’s City of God, and the North American Bible.
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All good references I haven’t had time to read some and didn’t know about a few of them, I’ll look it up 🙂

I need to get something to eat and I’ll post back afterwards.
 
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until he started getting a bit out of hand with his Star Carrier series. Don’t get me wrong, the carrier thing’s fine but by golly! the dude put in polygamous relationships and monogamous marriages are looked down upon as primitive.
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I just found out he was an Atheist, that’s why he talked out against marriage (also because he was a son of divorced parents) it does turn out he married and lived with his wife until his death. I’m not sure if he talked against marriage before or after that, but he certainly expressed his doubts at some point only to find happiness in marriage afterwards…Did he write a retraction at some point? I don’t know, be showed he had been wrong…
 
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Voyage to Alpha Centauri: A Novel by Michael O’Brien is one of my favorite novels, let alone “Catholic Science Fiction”. Both copies of “Infinite Space Infinite God” hold places of pride and re-reading on my Kindle. The novella “Dyads” is my favorite out of either collection.

For non-Catholic authors who treat religion in the most sensitive and honest way, I’d hand the prize to Orson Scott Card. The entire “Ender/Bean” universe, the original trilogy Mr Card writes about Catholicism in these secular novels better than many self proclaimed religious authors, all the time without bashing you about the head and face with it.

Do you know about he Catholic Writers Guild? Some folks writing some good Sci-Fi are members.

Science Fiction has always been my favorite genre. I lean to what is now called “Hard Science Fiction” than other sub-genres.
 
Some classic science fiction:

Frankenstein
The invisible man
Dr, Jekyll and Mr Hyde
 
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