Wade Walker

I've finally finished writing The Unbent Curve, book two in the sci-fi time travel trilogy that began with The Gap Year. It follows the further adventures of Anna and Indy in ancient Greece, as the technological and societal changes they set in motion last time—with the best of intentions!—begin to careen forward, out of their control.

It's still several more months from release, since I need to finish the final editing and proofreading process. But in the meantime, here's a bit of the cover sketch by the incomparable Fernanda Suarez😀 I'm very excited to see what the final cover will look like!

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There are a lot of famous sci-fi books where our heroes explore an enigmatic alien megastructure. The first one that comes to mind for me is Larry Niven’s Ringworld. There’s also Arthur C. Clarke’s Rendezvous with Rama, which I’ve lost my copy of, but which Denis Villeneuve is apparently making into a movie! And the genre’s still going: arguably Iain M. Bank’s 2008 book Matter falls into this same category.

A bit less well-known than these is John Varley’s inventive Gaea trilogy, the books Titan, Wizard, and Demon:

Overlooked classic: John Varley's Gaea trilogy — Wade Walker There are a lot of famous sci-fi books where our heroes explore an enigmatic alien megastructure…

For the last few years, I’ve been going back and re-reading sci-fi books that I loved long ago, to see what I think of them decades later.

One series that held up very well is Julian May’s Pliocene Exile series, comprising The Many-Colored Land, The Golden Torc, The Nonborn King, and The Adversary. It’s a time-travel sci-fi series, where misfits from future Earth, circa 2110 A.D., travel back to the Earth of six million years before, which is unexpectedly occupied by two warring alien races, who are uncannily reminiscent of the elves and dwarves of human legend. I won’t spoil it for you, but May tells a huge story over these four books, stuffed with inventive and original ideas.

Overlooked classic: Julian May’s Pliocene Exile series — Wade Walker For the last few years, I’ve been going back and re-reading sci-fi books that I loved long ago, to see what I think of them decades later. And one series that held up very well is Julian May’s Pliocene Exile series.

There are plenty of fantastic post-apocalyptic sci-fi books out there, like David Brin’s The Postman or Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Liebowitz. But usually these apocalypses are caused by something like a nuclear war, where society could at least theoretically come back from it. But what about an apocalypse where technology itself stops working?

SFF ideas I love: When technology stops working — Wade Walker There are plenty of fantastic post-apocalyptic sci-fi books out there, like David Brin’s The Postman or Walter M. Miller Jr.’s A Canticle for Liebowitz . But usually these apocalypses are caused by something like a nuclear war, where society could at least theoretically come back from it. But wh...

There are loads of artificially intelligent ships in sci-fi, like Breq (formerly the giant military ship Justice of Toren) in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice, or the General Contact Unit Of Course I Still Love You in Iain M. Bank’s The Player of Games. But what about naturally intelligent ships, star- or otherwise?

SFF ideas I love: Naturally intelligent ships — Wade Walker There are loads of artificially intelligent ships in sci-fi, like Breq (formerly the giant military ship Justice of Toren ) in Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice , or the General Contact Unit Of Course I Still Love You in Iain M. Bank’s The Player of Games . But what about naturally intelligent s

Everyone knows you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover. But we all do it anyway. It’s human nature!
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