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Spaceforce: Clear and Present Danger
Oct. 22nd, 2007 05:22 pmI think I may have a title for my Spaceforce novel: Clear and Present Danger.
And I realize I haven't really talked about what it's about, so. This is my NaNoWriMo novel, but it's also the novel I'm writing for my senior project, a.k.a. that thing I have to get done so I can graduate (not to be confused with all the other things I have to get done so I can graduate). I told the nice Senior Project Advisory Committee that I would be writing a 100K science fiction novel, and so I am writing a 100K science fiction novel. I do tend to call it the Spaceforce novel, since the title is tentative and very long, although as of now the United States Spaceforce does not actually appear in the novel, regardless of previous comments to the contrary. I also fondly like to call it the novel where the U.S. gets tired of screwing around in international affairs and goes off to screw around in intergalactic affairs instead, but that is a very, very simplistic reading of the whole affair. Let us see if we can do a backcover type teaser:
After ten years of war with the Rokasan Empire, the United States has chosen to pull out of the Rokasan Civil War. As suddenly as NASA opens a one way wormhole from the Rokasa Galaxy to the Milky Way, however, the wormhole closes, stranding six American starcarriers and the five thousand troops they carry in Rokasa.
Three years later, the United States Spaceship North Carolina returns to Earth through the desperate actions of a small group of soldiers and scientists who survived the brutal civil war. Back on Earth for the first time in years, astrophysicist Shelton McAuliffe and her team must readjust to life without constant threat of death or destruction -- until a Rokasan Imperial starship arrives in the Milky Way bearing news of the other Lost Ships.
Now, Shelton and the North Carolina must return to Rokasa, a galaxy that desperately wants to kill them, and face old enemies, new dangers, and a growing threat that may spell the end both of Rokasa and of Earth...
God damn it, why does my comp not have my notes? They're supposed to be here! They're specifically on this computer because I'd be writing my novel on this computer!
And I realize I haven't really talked about what it's about, so. This is my NaNoWriMo novel, but it's also the novel I'm writing for my senior project, a.k.a. that thing I have to get done so I can graduate (not to be confused with all the other things I have to get done so I can graduate). I told the nice Senior Project Advisory Committee that I would be writing a 100K science fiction novel, and so I am writing a 100K science fiction novel. I do tend to call it the Spaceforce novel, since the title is tentative and very long, although as of now the United States Spaceforce does not actually appear in the novel, regardless of previous comments to the contrary. I also fondly like to call it the novel where the U.S. gets tired of screwing around in international affairs and goes off to screw around in intergalactic affairs instead, but that is a very, very simplistic reading of the whole affair. Let us see if we can do a backcover type teaser:
After ten years of war with the Rokasan Empire, the United States has chosen to pull out of the Rokasan Civil War. As suddenly as NASA opens a one way wormhole from the Rokasa Galaxy to the Milky Way, however, the wormhole closes, stranding six American starcarriers and the five thousand troops they carry in Rokasa.
Three years later, the United States Spaceship North Carolina returns to Earth through the desperate actions of a small group of soldiers and scientists who survived the brutal civil war. Back on Earth for the first time in years, astrophysicist Shelton McAuliffe and her team must readjust to life without constant threat of death or destruction -- until a Rokasan Imperial starship arrives in the Milky Way bearing news of the other Lost Ships.
Now, Shelton and the North Carolina must return to Rokasa, a galaxy that desperately wants to kill them, and face old enemies, new dangers, and a growing threat that may spell the end both of Rokasa and of Earth...
God damn it, why does my comp not have my notes? They're supposed to be here! They're specifically on this computer because I'd be writing my novel on this computer!
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