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Heroes Need a Captain
Science Fiction; avant-garde, context definition below.
186,000 words, about 750 paperback pages
I am a Talespinner!
I shall spin you a tale of heroes,
of the wide velvet night!
How many times have you seen, "This isn't like any story you've read before?" Do you believe it? Would you like to make a wager? Download the sample. Make me prove it.
Dream Realm 2000 Science Fiction Novel of the Year.
The selk-changed pairs were the only ones who could see the "rainbow slides" into another area of space. When the selk disappeared, they became too valuable to be free.
The frontier sectors were only connected by the slides. Corporations found war too profitable to allow them to end. Life contracts were legal slavery, until it was discovered the slides came full circle, back to Earth and the contiguous settled sectors.
The Courts of Humanity were looking for people to give badges. Captain Lura Lake was just who they had in mind, but there was a psychotic fixated on one of her slide-guide deputies. The legacy of the corps was not going to be easy to end.
Read the review. It's a much better description than mine.
This is on all my book pages. Do read it once. You need to know this stuff to decide if the twenty years I've been writing for this stage of e-publishing is going to be a blast, and wow, there's a lot.
I write for an under-served market. Will others like my work? Yes, but they aren't really wishing for something that's not available. Or not this something. There really isn't anything else like my work out there. If there had been, I'd have found it. I want action-adventure that never slows down and engages me intellectually too. I want superheroes who are eloquent and brilliant. I want characters who sound like they've got an incredible education and wisdom from 'immortals,' who aren't cases of arrested development that haven't learned anything since they were 20. I want books I have to read more than once to get everything in them out of them. I want societies that don't have any missing pieces. Traders who think about profit margin, and guard captains who think about needing to use the toilet and wish the dignitaries would, please, go into the meeting room. To get it, I had to write it.
Raven's Reviews, (members.fortunecity.com/arwen_e/pz/sh...) 1999,
Raven,
"Reddy writes distant-future sci-fi with a heavy emphasis on romance, relationships, and psychology. Since her material is published only in electronic format, she has a unique, fast-paced style that lacks most of the usual descriptions that slow readers down in traditional books. The dialogue contains the information you need to know who is speaking and what the action is, somewhat like a radio show with occasional moments of narration. This allows one to read almost as fast as one can think; it also lets Reddy pack the plot action and character development of a trilogy into the space of one long book.
Yes, these books are romantic brain-candy, but they're fun. If you like almost any kind of men at all, you'll like hers- they're all gorgeous, as well as sensitive, brooding, boyish, powerful, passionate, and charming. Male authors have long had a monopoly on portraying gender relations in space, creating myths of the gallant future knight who clearly seperates his fighting from his women. Reddy doesn't hold with that. She also doesn't hold with timid women who wait to be rescued. Her heroines are in keeping with the modern world- protectors of those they care about no matter what it takes."
Raven, Review, Heroes need a
"To describe the plot, I would have to write a paragraph per chapter."
Raven, thank you. You too, Dragon. You did a great service to us all, treating e-published equally on your site. No, I won't let you correct the typos. That site is an historical document, too.
186,000 words, about 750 paperback pages
I am a Talespinner!
I shall spin you a tale of heroes,
of the wide velvet night!
How many times have you seen, "This isn't like any story you've read before?" Do you believe it? Would you like to make a wager? Download the sample. Make me prove it.
Dream Realm 2000 Science Fiction Novel of the Year.
The selk-changed pairs were the only ones who could see the "rainbow slides" into another area of space. When the selk disappeared, they became too valuable to be free.
The frontier sectors were only connected by the slides. Corporations found war too profitable to allow them to end. Life contracts were legal slavery, until it was discovered the slides came full circle, back to Earth and the contiguous settled sectors.
The Courts of Humanity were looking for people to give badges. Captain Lura Lake was just who they had in mind, but there was a psychotic fixated on one of her slide-guide deputies. The legacy of the corps was not going to be easy to end.
Read the review. It's a much better description than mine.
This is on all my book pages. Do read it once. You need to know this stuff to decide if the twenty years I've been writing for this stage of e-publishing is going to be a blast, and wow, there's a lot.
I write for an under-served market. Will others like my work? Yes, but they aren't really wishing for something that's not available. Or not this something. There really isn't anything else like my work out there. If there had been, I'd have found it. I want action-adventure that never slows down and engages me intellectually too. I want superheroes who are eloquent and brilliant. I want characters who sound like they've got an incredible education and wisdom from 'immortals,' who aren't cases of arrested development that haven't learned anything since they were 20. I want books I have to read more than once to get everything in them out of them. I want societies that don't have any missing pieces. Traders who think about profit margin, and guard captains who think about needing to use the toilet and wish the dignitaries would, please, go into the meeting room. To get it, I had to write it.
Raven's Reviews, (members.fortunecity.com/arwen_e/pz/sh...) 1999,
Raven,
"Reddy writes distant-future sci-fi with a heavy emphasis on romance, relationships, and psychology. Since her material is published only in electronic format, she has a unique, fast-paced style that lacks most of the usual descriptions that slow readers down in traditional books. The dialogue contains the information you need to know who is speaking and what the action is, somewhat like a radio show with occasional moments of narration. This allows one to read almost as fast as one can think; it also lets Reddy pack the plot action and character development of a trilogy into the space of one long book.
Yes, these books are romantic brain-candy, but they're fun. If you like almost any kind of men at all, you'll like hers- they're all gorgeous, as well as sensitive, brooding, boyish, powerful, passionate, and charming. Male authors have long had a monopoly on portraying gender relations in space, creating myths of the gallant future knight who clearly seperates his fighting from his women. Reddy doesn't hold with that. She also doesn't hold with timid women who wait to be rescued. Her heroines are in keeping with the modern world- protectors of those they care about no matter what it takes."
Raven, Review, Heroes need a
"To describe the plot, I would have to write a paragraph per chapter."
Raven, thank you. You too, Dragon. You did a great service to us all, treating e-published equally on your site. No, I won't let you correct the typos. That site is an historical document, too.
419 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 6, 2011
About the author
Sharon L. Reddy
44 books18 followersI am a talespinner. I shall spin you a tale of heroes of the wide velvet night.
(c)1993 A Talespinner's Web http://www.targetyonder.com
I write science fiction adventure, for women; romance in the literary definition. Swashbuckle, Baby, in "white tie and tails." High romantic fantasies, million word mysteries, family sagas, statesmen, gurus and wise immortals. Loving dads, sons and brothers, and of course, the women who understand and appreciate them. High fashion and landscape design. Materials and art, I use the reader's imagination to create them. The books are built to be read very fast, specifically for the way women visualize. Research on the soap operas of the fifties, trends in international populist (fan) fiction, technological development, and above all, long-term entertainment value. It has to be good in reruns. The intent is create a body of work that's just fun to read, in spurts or bursts over decades. Ethics, responsibility, nobless oblige, the power of money, the use of prestige. I write good guys win. Period. They're fantasies for women. Men with lots of muscle say, "I love you," a lot.
Most of what is currently published was written in the first decade, 1991-1999, before Mother Nature changed my personal definition of "mature audience." I hope you'll remain with me as I and my work mature and enjoy the second decade of my work now being published, as well.
I've lived many places and visited far more. My current residence is on a high mesa in New Mexico, in the United States, where I am engaged in a habitat restoration project.
Explanation of the Pilots Group:
Some of these works have been sitting on my hard drive close to twenty years and they're no fun for anyone just sitting there. They're exactly what they've been titled, pilots, like for a TV series. It is my intent and hope that other writers will choose to continue the adventures of the characters. There are only three restrictions. Don't kill off my heroes, don't make good guys bad guys and give my story credit if you publish. Yes, you may publish and make money on your stories. I loved reading and writing fan fiction, but the limitations on it could be frustrating, so... Have fun with these works that specifically don't have them.
(c)1993 A Talespinner's Web http://www.targetyonder.com
I write science fiction adventure, for women; romance in the literary definition. Swashbuckle, Baby, in "white tie and tails." High romantic fantasies, million word mysteries, family sagas, statesmen, gurus and wise immortals. Loving dads, sons and brothers, and of course, the women who understand and appreciate them. High fashion and landscape design. Materials and art, I use the reader's imagination to create them. The books are built to be read very fast, specifically for the way women visualize. Research on the soap operas of the fifties, trends in international populist (fan) fiction, technological development, and above all, long-term entertainment value. It has to be good in reruns. The intent is create a body of work that's just fun to read, in spurts or bursts over decades. Ethics, responsibility, nobless oblige, the power of money, the use of prestige. I write good guys win. Period. They're fantasies for women. Men with lots of muscle say, "I love you," a lot.
Most of what is currently published was written in the first decade, 1991-1999, before Mother Nature changed my personal definition of "mature audience." I hope you'll remain with me as I and my work mature and enjoy the second decade of my work now being published, as well.
I've lived many places and visited far more. My current residence is on a high mesa in New Mexico, in the United States, where I am engaged in a habitat restoration project.
Explanation of the Pilots Group:
Some of these works have been sitting on my hard drive close to twenty years and they're no fun for anyone just sitting there. They're exactly what they've been titled, pilots, like for a TV series. It is my intent and hope that other writers will choose to continue the adventures of the characters. There are only three restrictions. Don't kill off my heroes, don't make good guys bad guys and give my story credit if you publish. Yes, you may publish and make money on your stories. I loved reading and writing fan fiction, but the limitations on it could be frustrating, so... Have fun with these works that specifically don't have them.
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