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A dome of inflated glass stretched high over the rice fields of Hab 15b. Dargin walked along an elevated catwalk, staring at the data feed scrolling down the inner side of his vac suit’s face shield. Current Crop: Rice – Seed Generation 3483 Variation 45Current Exposure Duration: 19:55:00Next Scheduled Shielding: 00:05:00Rice Nutrient Efficiency: 94.7%Time Since Last Sample: 20:55:00Projected Crop Harvest: 2.5pyNext Scheduled Crop Rotation: Wheat – Seed Generation 278 Variation 14 Dargin sighed as he refreshed and read the data…
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“Really? Riding the link again?” The voice was distant, Yalma thought. Did it belong to Freddy? Or his engineer friend Jackson? She wasn’t sure. “Hey, get up,” the voice said, wandering in again. “Shake that shit out of your head. We need to get to work.” Yalma finally opened her eyes. She was no longer in the snow-covered forest of ancient earth, riding inside the cab of a train and…what had happened again? Something shined. Something hit. Red everywhere. But…
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RECORDING DATE: 21-12-2096 (EY-AD)SUBJECT NAME: Darcy, Frederick T.COLLECTION: Social Link Earth Memories (SLEM) C1TRANSCRIPTION BY: C.AbUNLAST ACCESS DATE: 04-11-5544 (PY-AP)
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Hello! It’s with great excitement that I can share my first self-published story is available to purchase. Frenetika The Mage is a prequel novella to it’s companion video game, FRENETIKA. You can purchase an e-book version (which is also free with kindle unlimited) or purchase a fancy shmancy paperback version! As I wrote in a previous post, this novella was initially intended to be unlockable lore in the video game. However, once I released the game I was pretty dang…
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(To read this story in non-blog format, follow this link) Garrett Falk swayed with the train car as it bounced along on its way through the city. The other passengers swayed too. A semi-translucent window hovered in front of him in the middle of the train car. He flicked his pointer finger and the window scrolled to the next auto-generated aggregated news story; something about poverty reaching record numbers. He flicked his finger again to scroll to the next story.…
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Wow, it’s been a while. And life continues to roll on. As mentioned in my last blog post, work on the book has continued on. Perhaps not as quickly as I planned (a universal truth of creative projects), but continued nonetheless. Since that post I sent out another volley of Query Letters to prospective agents. And since that post, I received another volley of rejections. It was expected, yes, but still discouraging. And so, my rate of pitching agents slowed…
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I’m feeling a bit beat down today, creatively. I’m in one of those states where I’m ready to toss up my hands and yell to the cosmos, “fine, you win. I give up on this. I was never any good to begin with.” We’ve all had those days. I’ve had plenty in the past, and I’m positive I’ll have plenty more in the future. But when you’re in the thick of it, it sure does suck. So why am I…
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Hello! It’s been a while. There have been some big life events that have kept me from updating this blog as regularly as I’d like. But I’ve found some time to jot down a few thoughts. First, my wife and I are expecting our first child in July. As to be expected, we are excited, nervous, anxious, terrified, and beyond happy (with a few more emotions mixed in). Our amazing families have been a huge support so far and will…
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I’ve hit some big milestones since my last update. I finished another round of editing on the book. I feel as though it’s really coming together into what I had envisioned. The more editing passes I take, the more refined it becomes. And the more confident I become in the story I’m trying to tell. With finishing up the latest round, I decided to go out on a limb and begin sending out query letters to agents. This meant writing…
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Carving out my own small corner of the internet
Tyler Hillis 