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Continue reading →: Capricorn in more detail: a map of OssiI love a book with a map. I enjoy inspecting maps closely before I start reading, and guessing which parts are purely decorative and which parts are significant to the story. Unstable Orbits nearly had a map. The geography of Ebeham, the town in which the book takes place, is…
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Continue reading →: The geography of CapricornIn the Pod of Capricorn universe, Capricorn is a generation ship — a colony wheel — that’s been travelling for thousands of years across the stars. (It’s also the name of the AI that runs the ship.) When writing Between Two Worlds and its sequel, I knew I’d need a…
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Continue reading →: Progress report #8<- Progress report #7 Haven’t done one of these posts in a while! Between Two Worlds This is the book formerly known as “AXIS book 1”. It’ll be published on September 1, 2026, for Kindle, Kindle Unlimited, and paperback. I haven’t yet decided whether to record an audiobook. The manuscript…
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Continue reading →: Between Two Worlds: meet PodPod is the protagonist and narrator of the Pod of Capricorn series – both Between Two Worlds and its sequel. In Earth terms he’s in the second half of his teens, but they’re not on Earth, and the word teenager is not part of the Capricorn Basic vocabulary. It’s not…
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Continue reading →: Capricorn Basic, or How I created a dialect of English and then wrote 160,000 words in itIt started with ent. No, not Tolkien’s trees. I’d been writing the first draft of the then-untitled Between Two Worlds in standard contemporary British English. And then a character — probably Pod, the protagonist and narrator — said something like “I ent sorry.” (I know, it was me doing the…
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