Seaswell Publishing is the independent publisher for Barrie Cameron’s self-published books, using the ‘SEASWELL’ imprint. Cameron’s books include E-books and paperbacks.
On this page, we introduce our authors with a bio summary. You will be able to access more information on these authors from their individual internet pages.
Barrie Cameron
Barrie Cameron lives in New Zealand and is an Electrical Engineer. Since an early age, he has had an interest in writing. However it is only recently that he has found time to become an author.
The ‘Star Island‘ Goodreads link is here.
Cameron has set his Planetoid Trilogy novel in the near future. He has chosen a hybrid genre of soft and hard science fiction.
The hard science fiction refers to the use in the novel of realistic human science and technology of the twenty-first century; but there are also the issues of Earth geopolitics. The mid-twenty-first century world is in stress from global warming and there is a new danger arriving from out of interplanetary space!
The soft science fiction refers to the introduction into the novel of speculative technology of the future. Also there is help from an unexpected quarter and the need for new technologies.
The heroes of the story must then undertake a dangerous mission. Throughout the story, their adventure is clouded by mystery. Yet regardless of the hidden perils that they risk on their journey, they must overcome the greater challenge of not only an existential threat to human civilization but also to the Earth’s biosphere!
Influences
Cameron was encouraged to write his ‘Planetoid Trilogy’ novel by recent developments in science, especially in astrophysics and quantum mechanics.
But his main driver was the question as to whether a technically advanced civilization could overcome the implied dangers of the Fermi paradox.
The Fermi Paradox asks whether there are technically evolved extraterrestrial alien civilizations hidden amongst the stars of our Milky Way galaxy that may have managed to avoid extinction by a so called ‘great filter’.
The further question then arises, does humanity itself have the capability to avoid such an extinction in the near future from some such ‘great filter’ as proposed by the ‘paradox’.
The PLANETOID Trilogy has as one of its major themes this question of whether humans have the potential to avoid the fate that appears to have limited the existence of space-faring extraterrestrial technological alien civilizations.
Social Media
You can use the links below to go to Barrie Cameron Author pages at: Facebook, and Amazon:
Science Topics
On our Science Topics page, you can see our brief discussions of the Fermi paradox, and two related topics, exoplanets, and likely alien behaviour,
Planetoid Trilogy
The three books in the Planetoid Trilogy are: Star Island, Three Fates, and Phoenix.
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(Page updated: 31/08/2025).