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Fan Articles / Re: Mech of the Week: HEL Helios
« Last post by SteelRaven on Today at 12:29:08 »Fasa needed to fill those TRO pages with something.
Got it this morning, finished it. Thought it was a lot better than A Question of Survival, which was really brought down by both Star Colonel Hall (who, quite frankly, came across as being heavily incompetent at nearly everything thanks to his massive losing streak and really not having a valid reason to accept Jiyi's batchall). And also because Without Question moved out to where it was establishing new events rather than just telling the story of things that had already been printed in Tamar Rising.
Hello,
My name is Bryan Young and I've been publishing stories professionally for the last two decades. My last novel is BattleTech: Without Question, an important novel in a licensed universe. I'm pleased to submit "STORY NAME" to you. It's about 5k words long and tells the story of QUICK ONE SENTENCE EXPLANATION. It involves X FACTION, as they navigate X REGION, in the X ERA.
I have revelant personal experience with the subject <insert the experience>. I'm looking forward to your response to the story!
Thanks so much!
Bryan
The book store will never carry his Exegesis, while some of his lesser known works like the tripple stigmata of palmer eldritch or Valis will be harder to come by. Try your county library and save a buck. When my family grew more accustomed to using the request features and how accessible the online library sites are, it becomes very easy to get a book from a neighboring stock brought in. To say nothing of the amount of money you save if your children are also devouring books.I live full time overseas as an expat, and books are an easy, minimal expense.
As much as I loved PKD as a teenager and in my early 20's, he did a lot of harm to the Science Fiction community with an elitist type mindset for American authors in creating a group mind that should or shouldn't approve who is acknowledged or not by "the best" in the genre. And that goes a long way for a person who is just plainly an author and story weaver. He's a product of his time with space flight and "martian canals" being discovered and the heavy psychotropic scene exploding. In the end, he was never honest with the vision he was given and this caused as much consternation in him personally that he became a facsimile of many of his protagonists. He was very much like HG Wells.I disagree. PKD wasnt a planned futurist like Wells was. The former had mental issues (no doubt exacerbated by his drug taking), and he wrote about his fears and paranoia. Its somewhat coincidental that his anxieties with technology, and the stuff he wrote about them has actually come true, much like George Orwell and his warnings of an all-powerful surveillance state in 1984 also became real.