Book 11 is still on-line (in pdf form, other formats to come)

Sorry for the long wait. Charlemagne was a long and complex book with a lot of big changes affecting all of the major characters

For Teh Noobs - Welcome

Worlds Apart is a long, strange science fiction saga I began writing in the late 90's and began publishing to the web in the early 00's

It is set over 5,000 years in the future. The backstory is that Humankind once built a Great Commonwealth of over 13,000 colonies spread across all four quadrants of the Galaxy. A hugely destructive way with a superior race of transdimensional beings known as Tarmigans annihilated the Commonwealth, leaving behind thousands of shattered and disconnected colony worlds. Two of the outermost colonies, Sapphire and Republic, were spared the Tarmigan Apocalypse, and over a thousand years later, began building ships to find lost human colonies and restore Galactic Civilization.

The Worlds Apart books trace the journey of one such ship; the Pathfinder Ship Pegasus; an enormous, multi-generational starship carrying a crew of thousands. It is commanded by the irreverent, sarcastic, raging alcoholic Commander William Keeler. His crew is made up of people from his home planet of Sapphire, a culture of freedom-loving libertarians and free thinkers; and people from Republic, a planet run by authoritarian collectivists. (Most of the 'Republickers' left the ship in Book 6 before Keeler, defying orders, left the Perseus Quadrant of the galaxy to make a mad dash to find Earth, located in the Orion Quadrant).

The conflict in the book is driven clashes of culture and personalities; but the stories are driven by descriptions of how human culture evolved differently on each of the planets encountered; driven by the environment, social pressures, and historical events on each different world.

Worlds Apart Books Now for Sale in Various E-Book Formats

Via Book Tango

These are edited, cleaned-up, and frequently retconned versions of the drafts published previously in pdf format. People are actually buying them... for money. Ain't that a kick in the pants?

  • WA Book 01 - Meridian -- The Long Strange Journey of the Pathfinder Ship Pegasus begins as the crew travels to the lost colony of Meridian, where alien invaders are transforming the human colonists into weird and horrible creatures.
  • WA Book 02 - EdenWorld -- EdenWorld is inhabited by... um, weird and horrible creatures... and the surviving human colonists are their slaves. To free them, Commander Keeler and crew must survive a dangerous journey and uncover the world's ancient secrets.
  • WA Book 03 - Bodicea -- As a result of the White Plague, Bodicea has been left with a population in which there are twenty women for every male. Also, the planet is ruled by a cruel and oppressive Matriarchy of Radical Feminists. Oh, yeah, and aliens are about to invade.
  • WA Book 04 - Winter -- Winter is inhabited by a bunch of cranky old humans; kept alive by some mysterious property of the planet's ecosystem for over 3,000 years. TyroCommander Redfire is put on trial for murdering an immortal man.
  • WA Book 05 - Aurora -- The crew of Pegasus enjoys shore leave on the planet Aurora, whose primary products are armaments, pornography, and snack foods.
  • WA Book 06 - Crucible -- Pegasus answers a distress call from its sister ship Lexington Keeler, and arrives to find a system recently devastated by a massive alien attack.
  • WA Book 07 - Yronwode -- In a remote quadrant of the galaxu, Pegasus drops in on an ancient prison planet, from which there is no escape. Commander Keeler and Eddie Roebuck lead opposited factions in an apocalyptic Holy War

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    Worlds Apart eBooks at BookTango.com

    WA Book 01 - Meridian

    WA Book 02 - EdenWorld

    WA Book 03 - Bodicea

    WA Book 04 - Winter

    WA Book 0 5 - Aurora

    WA Book 06 - Crucible

    WA Book 07 - Yronwode

     

    Coming Soon - although not as soon as anyone would like

  • WA Book 08 - Hellfire
  • WA Book 09 - Gethsemane
  • WA Book 10 - Eventide
  • WA Book 11 - Charlemagne
  • WA Book 12 - Earth

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  • Extra Stuff Goes In the Wiki

    Previous iterations of this site included background information on ships, worlds, characters, and such-like. The volume of such background information has grown the point of needing a wiki, So, here it is.

    I try to add a few entries whenever I have the chance. Feel free to add entries of your own. There's a lot of information in the wiki that isn't revealed in the book, but comes out of the background notes I've made.

    Also, there's a writing blog that I have been horrible about not updating, but tend to update frequently at the start and end of the writing process