“The Future of The Farpool”

This post will cover some details about where my newest science fiction novel The Farpool is in its short life as an ebook published through Smashwords and where I want to take this story in the coming months and years. 

1.     Current downloads for The Farpool as of 7-25-16 are now at 350.  Interestingly, the change from the previous week is an increase of 23…in other words, 23 additional downloads in the last week.

2.     As I have described previously, The Farpool is about an adventure experienced by Chase Meyer and Angie Gilliam, in which the two teenagers travel through a wormhole to another world (Seome), a world of marine creatures who face an existential threat that only Chase and Angie can stop. Below is the long description which you will see at the Smashwords ebook store…

a.     Teen-agers Chase and Angie witness a waterspout off Scotland Beach, Florida.  After it’s gone, they investigate a whirlpool nearby.  They spot two marine animals, clad in suits.  The creatures blind them with some kind of device, then disappear into the whirlpool.  The teen-agers are trapped in the vortex and wind up catapulted six thousand light years, to an ocean world called Seome.  The Seomish call it the Farpool.  It’s a wormhole.  Chase and Angie arrive in this world, riven by conflict, wracked by sound and vibration from a base on a small island, a base set up by Umans, star-faring descendants of the teenagers’ own human race.  The Umans operate a Time Twister.  The Umans are fighting off a malevolent enemy called the Coethi; one of the side effects of the Twister is the Farpool.

Now Chase and Angie find themselves in the midst of an existential crisis, a race against time and destiny.  Chase wants to stay behind, to learn more about this amazing world and to help his new–found Seomish friends defend themselves. Angie wants to go home.  But the challenge is this: Farpool depends on the Twister working.  If it’s shut down, the wormhole will be gone.  Chase and Angie now must decide: stay with their new found Seomish family, or attempt to go back through the Farpool before it’s closed forever.

The decision may send them back through time and space to their home world. But the same decision may well doom their Seomish friends to complete annihilation at the hands of the Coethi.

It will be the hardest decision Chase and Angie have ever made.

 

3.      I am about to embark (late summer or early fall) on the final story (book #7) in my series Tales of the Quantum Corps.  So this series will be coming to an end next spring.  But The Farpool is intended as a series too and it’s just getting started.  The Farpool is title number one.  In follow-on titles, we’ll encounter Chase and Angie again.  The main story arc of this series revolves around using the Farpool itself, a wormhole in space and time, to travel back and forth from the doomed world of Seome and Earth (or other places).  Because their world is doomed, the Seomish have concocted a plan to emigrate en mass to Earth and take up residence in Earth’s oceans (they are marine creatures).  This of course will lead to being discovered and also will lead to considerable conflict, as another intelligence equal to human now is emigrating to our world.  The two races will somehow have to learn to live with each other and this will become increasingly urgent as the same enemy (the Coethi) that the Seomish faced which doomed their own world is soon coming to Earth as well. 

This is the overall story arc of my Farpool series.  Here’s how I hope to carry the story forward….

4.     Planned upcoming titles

a.     The Farpool: Marauders of Seome

b.     The Farpool: Exodus from Seome

5.     Additional titles and story ideas (there may be a total of 7 titles including the original The Farpool)

a.     Human and Seomish deal with conflict and learn how to live together on one planet (Seome is destroyed when their sun Sigma Albeth B supernova’es) (The Farpool: Terran Union)

b.     Human (22^nd century) and Seomish work together to deal with approach of the Coethi (more battles and wars in voidtime and alternate time streams using the Time Corps) (The Farpool: Coethi Diaspora)

c.     Possible genetic/technological blending of human and Seomish physiology.  Hybrids develop, able to live on land and in the ocean. (The Farpool: Convergence)

d.     Coethi infiltrators threaten historical Earth time streams.  Human-Seomish  hybrids must combat changes to Earth’s past by combating infiltrators in periods and locales of ancient Earth history where amphibious hybrid troopers could make a difference. (The Farpool: Sabotage)

 

6.     This is my current plan and I don’t intend to carry the story any further than indicated here.  These titles will take 3-5 years to write, so don’t expect the series to be over any time soon.  But the story and setting details are rich enough with possibilities that I believe this series is worth doing.  And, as with anything fictional, changes are likely.

 

The next post to the Word Shed will come on August 1, 2016.  This post will cover plans for my upcoming final installment of Tales of the Quantum Corps.  It’s entitled Johnny Winger and the Battle at Caloris Basin.

 See you August 1.

 Phil B.