One thing about being a science fiction author is that you can make things up. Planets, aliens, technology, they're all fair game. What about future situations here on planet Earth?
Anything beyond...well, today, is on the table. But, if you go back any amount of time, all you have to do is create an alternate timeline. How to you solve today's climate crisis? go back to 1962 (or 1957 or whatever) and have the umm, aliens from planet...let's say Gragnak (which just happens to be the ever popular sci-fi star Wolf 359) visit Earth and give technology capable of supplying clean power to the world.
Now, all you have to do is create a different crisis and your next book practically writes itself...
Well, it's not that easy.
In my book, Euphrates Vanished, I had the main character grow up in a megalopolis in the US mid-west, of three cities that had grown together. But as I was working on the prequel, I realized with the population growth rate of the new timeline it probably would not have happened, so I went back and changed it. Minor issue that, thankfully doesn't affect anything.
I also changed a date of a certain occurrence from 2116 to 2158 (or was it 2157? I forget already, but what's one year?) to accommodate slower than lightspeed travel. Again, a minor issue.
The only other changes to my manuscript, were a few minor typos one of my early reviewers spotted. Now the only thing I need to do is upload it to Amazon and it's already to go out to everyone who preordered it.
How many preorders do you have?
Four.
That's not a lot, right?
It is not. I was hoping for more of my newsletter subscribers to purchase, but, that's how things go.
-Leon
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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, and a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words.
My new book page: http://books.linesbyleon.com/
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