Monday, December 5, 2016


“Update on Tales of the Quantum Corps, Nanotroopers and The Farpool

Below is an update on ebook downloads via Smashwords as of November 28, 2016…

Title
Week Ending 11-28-16
JW & the Serengeti Factor
773
JW & the Amazon Vector
584
JW & the Hellas Enigma
556
JW & the Golden Horde
490
JW & the Great Rift Zone
489
JW & the Europa Quandary
456
Final Victory
102
The Eyeball Conspiracy
150
The Peking Incident
172
Root Magic
79
The Farpool
529
All Nanotroopers Episodes
3508
TOTAL
7888

 

As you can see, the Tales of the Quantum Corps stories, with the Nanotroopers series and The Farpool constitute 94% of all downloads.  Not surprising since all these titles are listed on Smashwords as free ebooks.  Plus all these titles are listed as science fiction.  I am currently working on Nanotroopers Episode 18 (of a projected 22) and just today uploaded Episode 16, which already has 10 downloads after being posted to the site for four hours.

I am currently about halfway through the final installment of Tales of the Quantum Corps, entitled Johnny Winger and the Battle at Caloris Basin.  I expect to be done with this in mid to late spring 2017 and you’ll see it at Smashwords on or before June 1.  Also I expect to be concluding the Nanotroopers series on or about March 31, 2017.

Which leaves The Farpool.

My next title in this projected series will be The Farpool: Marauders of Seome.  Projected start date is June 8, 2017.  In a previous post to The Word Shed, I’ve given a brief outline of this story.  For those of you who might have missed it, here it is again:

  1. The Farpool: Marauders of Seome
    The Ponkti send mercenaries and agents through the Farpool and wind up in mid-20th century Earth.  They hook up with the Nazis.  The Ponkti have stolen Omtorish technology and have modified themselves to operate as amphibious beings.  The Ponkti are very interested in German U-boat technology and especially their torpedoes.  For their part, the Nazis are interested in what the Ponkti can to do to help defeat Allied sonar and assault Allied convoys.  Chase and a rejuvenated Angie, along with their Omtorish friends Kloosee and Pakma, have to stop the Ponkti and the Nazis from nurturing each other’s evil ambitions.
    I anticipate doing additional stories in the world and time of The Farpool.  Here is a synopsis of what is coming.
     

  1. The Farpool: Exodus from Seome
    Seomish engineers and scientists determine that their own sun Sigma-Albeth B won’t last much longer.  But Farpool still works.  A decision is made, after discussion, to begin a mass exodus of Seomish kels and people through the Farpool, to the oceans of 22nd century Earth.  They don’t tell the humans about this planned immigration.  When the humans realize what is happening, conflict develops.  Ultimately, they allow the Seomish to come.  Now two intelligent races, one terrestrial and one marine, must learn to co-exist on Earth.  But what is worse: the Seomish have unwittingly left a path for the Coethi to come through the Farpool and menace 22nd century Earth, even as they are menacing 28th century Uman worlds around the Galactic Halo and Spiral Fringe.  A greater threat may be coming.
     
  2. Additional titles and story ideas (there may be a total of 7 titles including the original The Farpool)
    1. 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)
    2. Human (22nd 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 Command) (The Farpool: Coethi Diaspora)
    3. Possible genetic/technological blending of human and Seomish physiology.  Hybrids develop, able to live on land and in the ocean. (The Farpool: Convergence)
    4. 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 or future Earth history where amphibious hybrid troopers could make a difference. (The Farpool: Temporal Sabotage)
  3. Additional titles for use in story ideas involve amphibious hybrid troopers battling Coethi timestream terrorists (stories should be set in locales where amphibious troopers could make a difference).
    NOTE: Hybrid troopers are symbiotically blended human/Seomish/AI-robotic beings
    NOTE: Farpool Troopers will be a continuing serial of adventures involving blended human/Seomish/robotic warriors (similar to Nanotroopers). See 4.d above.  They work for Time Command.
  4. Potential serial story titles
    1. Menace in the Maldives
    2. Assault at Aldabara
    3. Rescue at Europa
    4. Victory at Vesta
    5. Mystery at Ganymede
    6. Disaster at Amalthea
    7. Skirmish in the Solomons
    8. Ambush at Triton
    9. Conspiracy at Callisto
    10. Decision at Io
    11. Triumph at Eros
    12. Tragedy at Trafalgar
    13. Incident at Proxima Centauri  (possibly, this will be Episode 1)
  5. Important naval battles could also be a setting, including…
    1. Salamis
    2. Lepanto
    3. Jutland
  6. Coethi timestream terrorists are trying to close down critical time streams in human space (21st to 28th centuries) to force human/Uman expansion away from the Galactic Halo back toward Solspace.  The Coethi want to take over star systems in the region of the Galactic Halo and along a considerable arc of the Perseus Arm of the Milky Way.
  7. Farpool Troopers must confront and defeat Coethi attempts to alter critical human historical time streams, on Earth, and throughout the settled solar system and even further out in interstellar space where humans (later Umans) explored, fought each other, settled and colonized other worlds. 
  8. Farpool Troopers are deployed soldiers of Time Command.  They use jumpships and travel through voidtime to various time streams in their missions. 
     
    So, as you can see, I have a great deal of potential work to do and a lot of stories to tell.  I hope to make The Farpool into  both a continuing line of novels and branch off from that line to do a serial like Nanotroopers, but focused on the times and adventures of the people of Earth and Seome and their hybrid descendants. 
     
    The next post to The Word Shed will be on December 12, 2016.
     
    See you then.
     
    Phil B.

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