This cartoon is a nice succinct parody of the depressing SF that seems to be the rule today. I have to admit that my major project is pretty dark, set in a time of impending war, with social injustice, corruption, and tyranny major forces pushing at the society I have imagined. But beneath it all I'm attempting to show that the deep humanity of the characters wins over all even as their hopes are threatened by forces greater than any one of them can deal with.



I think the story will end on a note of hope.

Meanwhile new inspirations for stories are all bright and shiny - mainly thanks to growing older and wiser I think. The Shine Anthology is much anticipated, and my submission has begun to gel into a universe that I think I would like to write in for a while. Perhaps if only as light relief from the dark materials of my major work. So in order to push that project forward I've written some treatments for a series of linked short stories that I can complete and release as a series but that will hold up as a integrated whole.

Expect to see word of progress on that front.