One of the reasons I have been lax in keeping this blog up to date was that I was busy writing my second novel for a competition that closed at the end of the year. It was a tough order and the final draft was 108,000 words long and could do with a large amount of editing and rework, nevertheless I enjoyed the process though not so much how pressured the timescales were.
The book is called Space Race and it was originally envisioned to be a graphic novel, but the theme fitted the brief of the competition so I turned it into a novel. It is a composite of seven stories spread throughout the history of space craft development, from the V2 rockets developed by the Germans in 1945, to Cold War Russia, 70’s America at NASA, a tracking station in the Australian outback in the 80’s, an altered reality of a floating space launch facility in 2010, Artificial Intelligence lab in Japan in 2035 and finally on the eve of the first manned space craft journey out of our solar system in 2100. All of the stories are interlinked and have a story thread running through them and each is written in a different style (anti-war story, spy story, adventure story, personal development story, sex story, crime story and classic sci-fi story).
I plan now to work on some other stories before a revisit this one and tinker around with it. The results for the competition are announced in March, so if I have the nerve after that I might send it out to publishers for their opinion.
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