If you are a reader of this blog, you may or may not be aware that I am a science fiction author. For a full bibliography of my fiction and non-fiction works, please see this site.
It pleases me to announce that I have published what may well be the best novel I have written. It is called Ghulf Genes and is the first volume of a trilogy. More about that in a moment. First the basic facts and link.
The novel is 525 pages in length, a trade paperback, published by Editorial Code and Data, Inc. and distributed by Lulu, Inc. The price is $29.24 and available here.
You can also buy the novel on Amazon.com—which may be handier if you already have an account there. Just supply my name and the title.
Quick Overview
Here is the introduction copied from the inside back cover of the book itself:
Ghulf Genes is the first volume of a trilogy titled A Symphony in Ghulf Major, an adventurous projection, the canvas itself a future history of the tumultuous achievements, struggles, sufferings, and loves of a peculiar family established by their founder on blood, money, and contract—the Ghulf Accords.
Each novel in the series stands alone—but maximum enjoyment comes from reading them in sequences: after all, it is a history, and knowing the past illuminates the future. The trilogy is at once a space adventure, family saga, and future history. Events on earth play a major role in the ultimate development of what, in that future, people call Earth, Mars, and the Eight Worlds. A central event separating Ghulf Genes from the next volume, In Search of Anna Magna, is a devastating global plague known as the Red Rose. The last volume in the trilogy is Anna’s Song, a towering love story in one sense, in another the story of a monumental discovery that opens the path to deep space for humanity. The lens through which we see it all? The Ghulfs, Ghulfdom. And you may find, after reading these books, that you, too, belong to that clan.
On this site I would add to this description that Ghulf Genes, like the other two volumes, is framed so that what I here call the borderzone is part of reality and plays its vital role in the fates, fortunes, and ultimate happiness of the great diversity of characters who live through the stormy centuries from the twenty-second through the twenty-fifth, the total period covered.
I have established a web site, called Ghulf Records, where more information is available–not a lot more at present (October 12, 2009), but more is planned. The site is reachable here.
