Ray Guns and Late Fees (Spaceship Mechanic Book #3) is available now! Click here to get a copy.
Now that I’ve made that announcement, let me digress.
What a fun journey writing Spaceship Mechanic has been. One of my creative goals from early last year was to step back from the harder, military science fiction and more toward action, adventure, and characters who are building something, not just surviving. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve loved writing Oldest Starfighter and Junkyard Pirate. Junkyard Pirate’s success is, in fact, what’s allowed me to take the creative risk with Spaceship Mechanic, which are stories that don’t neatly fit into normal sci-fi genre categories. By the way, if Spaceship Mechanic is your thing, you have the same problem, which is you don’t fit well into categories.
I’ve started working on Spaceship Mechanic #4, which will be titled Flying Saucers and Chrome Plate. On a high level, Rix and crew return to Earth and hijinks ensue. This is another fun, fast-paced adventure with a backdrop of Rix fixing things, mechanical and otherwise.
One of the fun things I’ve been doing, related to Spaceship Mechanic, is using an AI to build small videos. It turns out that AIs aren’t really there in terms of creating highly consistent videos with minimal input. I’ve burned I don’t know how many credits simply trying to get Calypso sailing forward instead of backwards. Even more credits burned trying to have the relatively small Calypso not look like it’s the size of a space station, when it invariably lands backwards at the space port. Don’t get me started on how often it adds a random ‘E’ to the end of perfectly spelled words. Regardless of all that, however, it’s fun to see the characters doing things in a way that makes sense to me.
Here’s one of the videos I came up for, related to Rayguns and Late Fees
Give this newest installment a read! We’re bringing fun back to old-school sci-fi, one story at a time!
