Welcome to Green Comet

There have been over 50,000 downloads of the stories in the Green Comet trilogy. If you’ve read any or all of them, then please drop a note in the comments below. I love to hear from readers, whether it’s a question or a compliment or a criticism, constructive or otherwise. Whatever you want to say, I want to hear it.

Are you interested in lucid dreaming or ball lightning? How about the feet of geckos or spiders? The aquatic ape? Cave art? Maybe you like clouds. You might have a fascination with out-of-body or near-death experiences, collective nouns or synesthesia. You can find all that and more here. Just use the handy little search bar.

There’s a lot of interesting stuff here, but mostly this website exists as a place for the Green Comet trilogy and my other novels to live. Please sign the guest book.

These free novels, Creative Commons licensed Green Comet, and its sequels Parasite Puppeteers and The Francesians, tell an expansive story of love and adventure on an inhabited comet. To learn more about the trilogy, and for samples, visit the Welcome page. To download the books, visit the Books for Free page. The novels The Plainsrunner, The Prime, Sunward and the Vin Stone series are available through the Books for Sale page. To listen to the Okanagan Reader, visit the Audio page or the YouTube channel.

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YouTube – Quantum Shorts 2 – Entanglement

This is a new venture for me. Recording stories live to video.

Cover image of the Quantum Shorts Vol. 2 anthology

This collection is Quantum Shorts 2. Flash fiction that won a contest. The stories all have something to do with quantum physics, but in all cases it’s the story that is important, more than the science. The stories are released under a Creative Commons license, as are these videos. Please pass them on.

This reading is Entanglement by Kathryn Aldridge-Morris, a writer from Bristol, UK, whose work has won several prizes including The Forge Literary Magazine’s award for Creative Nonfiction, and the Manchester Writing School’s “QuietManDave” prize.

The quantum concepts are entanglement, superposition and wave-particle duality.

A mother, who knows nothing about quantum physics, talks to her daughter, who is leaving home to study it in university.

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Something a Little Different

Beginning this week I will be doing something a little different with the YouTube videos. The previous ones were all already recorded and were simply uploaded with a video introduction. This week I will bravely go where I have never gone before and will record the stories live on video for upload. You will have the opportunity to watch me stumble and bumble my way through the stories. I don’t see how anyone could resist.-)

The book I have for this experiment is Quantum Shorts Volume 2. Quantum Shorts Volume 1 is already up on the Okanagan Reader channel and has been getting a lot of interest. The stories in these volumes are called flash fiction and would have been called short-shorts in days gone by. As a rule, they have no more than 1,000 words and take in the seven minute range to narrate. Each one has one or more quantum concepts in it, sometimes central and sometimes simply there since that’s the rule. Each story is a winner and good in its own right.

Barring delays, I will be uploading the first story on Wednesday. See you there.

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YouTube – Parasite Puppeteers – Chapter Fifty-Five

The last chapter was the penultimate. This is the ultimate.

This reading is chapter fifty-five of Parasite Puppeteers, the second book in the Green Comet trilogy. Buzzard and Maria tell us about their adventures. Fran, Elgin and the rest begin to dream of going home. But first they have to get the Makers back on their feet, as promised. Then what do they do with the Prime and its resources? It’s going to take some figuring out, but they like figuring things out.

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